Have you tried the Dept of Health and Human Services agency, Office of
Minority Health at  http://www.omhrc.gov/ to see if they have any
suggestions or can provide assistance?

Cindi Fitzpatrick, BSN
CSO, CDER Public Affairs Liaison
FDA/CDER/OTCOM/DPA
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 12B-31
Rockville, MD 20857
Ph: 301-827-1672
Fx: 301-827-3055
cynthia.fitzpatrick at fda.hhs.gov



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[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Janet Green
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:40 PM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
Cc: Angela Sun
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1012] Re: [Health Literacy 1008] Re: Funding
for bilingual cancer booklets

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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Betty.Merriman at cancer.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:12 PM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List
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
Team Leader, Dept. of Advanced Clinical Practice
Duke University Medical Center Box 3677
Durham, NC 27710
919-681-5288
kerry.harwood at duke.edu

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dimensions.  A ship in the harbor is safe...but that's not what ships
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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
Discussion List Moderator
World Education/NCSALL
jmckinney at worlded.org


>>> "Janet Green" <janetg at chasf.org> 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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[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Janet Green
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:20 AM
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Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1002] Re: [Health Literacy 998] Re: Health
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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