I think this has been mentioned already, but you should contact the
graphic design or art department of your local college.  As a student in
a graphic design class (when I was in college), we would have "design
competitions" to produce materials (for free) for various local
non-profits.

-----Original Message-----
From: Julie McKinney [mailto:julie_mcKinney at worlded.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:09 PM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 584] Wednesday Question: How do we pay?

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all your input and curiosity in last week's discussion of
visuals and pictures in health education!

One issue that came up was how to pay for graphic artists,
photographers, etc. There are a lot of ways in which programs have
improved health communication by creating better materials, providing
nursing or volunteer educators to help explain things in waiting rooms,
improving navigational signs, and other strategies. But these strategies
always cost something, and we have to justify this cost. How do we do
this? 

Here is a question that a list member wrote in earlier: 

We would be especially interested in hearing 
about experiences with any systems changes (for example, how to address 
the need/desire to change patient education practices and current 
reimbursement policies from insurers). We've spent quite a bit of time 
discussing our interest in integrating health educators/navigators etc. 
into our services but are challenged by how to pay for them. We of 
course are discussing many issues and intervention ideas, this is just 
one of the stickier ones!

I would love to hear from policy makers to help us figure this out. What
are the barriers? How do we need to approach this? I'd also like to hear
from programs who have had success in finding low cost ways to implement
these strategies, or found funding in creative ways.

All the best,
Julie


Julie McKinney
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org

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