Knowing the types of cancer which still require informational brochures might jog my brain about some logical funders.   
  I agree with you about not using funds from pharmaceutical firms.  
   
  Best,
   
  Bertie Mo, Ph.D., MPH

Janet Green <janetg at chasf.org> wrote:
  Dear Members,

Thank you for your comments and suggestions.
Our center has written many bilingual materials for the Chinese community. Printing costs for our most recent booklet, Colorectal Cancer- What You Need to Know, were provided by AANCART (Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness) through a training grant from the NCI. All of the materials we write are focus group tested, culturally designed, written in plain language, and are free to the public. All of the materials on our website, www.cchrchealth.org ,are available for download in either Chinese or English. We believe that immigrant communities are entitled to attractive, well written and illustrated health materials.

It is very hard to find money to produce and print materials in subjects not yet available. While I understand and respect the need to tie funding to research projects, it would be nice if part of federal Minority Health funding included a budget for community organizations such as ours to continue a mission that has an immediate impact in the community. We choose not to use pharmaceutical funding for our booklets as these organizations rightly request that their names appear on the booklet. However, we know from focus groups, that our community believes that the information in the booklet is somehow influenced by the companies. Talk about a double-edged sword!

Thanks again for all of your ideas.

Janet

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Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:12 PM
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Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1008] Re: Funding for bilingual cancer booklets


Hello all,

I'm at the National Home Office of the American Cancer Society here in
Atlanta, GA. As some of you already know, we do offer quite a bit of
information in Spanish and some in other languages as well. If you go to
www.cancer.org, you'll see that there are clickable links on the home page
(right below the Search function) for cancer information in Spanish and for
Asian and Pacific Islanders.

We also have print booklets. To find out about those, you can call our
National Cancer Information Center at 800-ACS-2345.

Hope that helps!

Betty

Betty Merriman, Content Developer
American Cancer Society, National Home Office





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Janet and all,
I am not aware of resources to fund printing your materials, but you may
want to see if existing materials will meet your needs from the
healthinfotranslations.org website. They offer traditional and simplified
Chinese materials on several cancer topics. (I'm guessing that's what you
are looking for based on your identifying info).

NCI offers several cancer education brochures in Spanish.
Kerry
Kerry Harwood, RN, MSN
Director, Cancer Patient Education Program
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Hi Janet and all,

Please do not feel that comments have to be relevant to the Wednesday
question. You can comment or ask about anything at any time!

As for the funds, I'm surprised that NCI and ACS do not offer anything
for this. The results of the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy
(NAAL) show that Hispanic Americans have significantly lower levels of
health literacy than other ethnicities, which should add support to
funding bilingual materials. Does anyone have ideas? I'll check into it.

Best,
Julie

Julie McKinney
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>>> "Janet Green" 06/12/07 2:32 PM >>>

Dear Readers,

There is nothing like sending a letter that contains errors to a Health
Literacy Forum! Please forgive me. I know that my request is not
relevant to the question of the week. I do hope that someone has had
better luck finding funds. I should have pointed out that we cannot use
pharmaceutical company funds for these projects at the request of the
physicians involved.

Thanks. My apologies.

Janet Green

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LiteracyDigest, Vol 21, Issue 16


I know my is not relevant to the question of the week. Are there any
suggestions for where to find funding for printing costs for brochures
and booklets on various medical topics. The ACS and the NCI do not
appear to offer funding for bilingual cancer booklets. We are in need of
funding for two bilingual cancer booklets. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Janet Green MSPH
Senior Health Educator
Chinese Community Health Resource Center
San Francisco, Ca


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