Julie and others,

It is heartening to see a bi-partisan bill on health literacy  
introduced in Congress. However, it is disquieting to know that basic  
literacy and numeracy services to adults could be losing $12.5  
million federal funds a year at the same time that health literacy  
gets funded for $10m a year. It is important, I believe, for those  
who are advocating for health literacy not to do so in a vacuum but  
also to advocate for services that will help adults learn to read,  
write, do numeracy, and, for immigrants, to learn English. I  
encourage those who may be interested in advocacy to subscribe to the  
AAACE-NLA discussion list whose focus is adult literacy public policy  
advocacy. To do so go to:

http://lists.literacytent.org/mailman/listinfo/aaace-nla

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net


On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Julie McKinney wrote:


> Hi Everyone,

>

> Great news for health literacy!

>

> Senator Coleman plans to introduce legislation for the National Health

> Literacy Act of 2007 within the next few days.  This much needed  

> federal

> support to advance our public's health literacy has bi-partisan  

> support for

> introduction from Senator Harkin.

>

> You can read the draft of the bill at the following link:

> http://foundation.acponline.org/

>

> We will post links soon where you can track the bill's progress on  

> its journey. In the meantime, I would love to hear people's  

> thoughts on the bill and any suggestions for those involved.

>

> (This is instead of this week's Wednesday Question: on Wednesday I  

> will be at the National Coalition for Literacy Policy Forum on  

> Health Literacy.) So let's hear any thoughts on the bill or policy  

> ideas!

>

> All the best,

> Julie

>

>

>

>

>

> Julie McKinney

> Discussion List Moderator

> World Education/NCSALL

> jmckinney at worlded.org

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