Is there any language in the "act" to provide health literacy information or
training in regard to producing materials in alternative formats for people
with disabilities? 

Valerie

		"Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling
down"
			
			Preamble to the Americans with Disabilities Act	
					George Bush, 1990


Valerie Lewis, Director
Long Island Talking Book Library
Administrator of Outreach Services
Suffolk Cooperative Library System
P.O. Box 9000
Bellport, NY 11713-9000
Phone: (631)286-1600, X1365
FAX:   (631)286-1647
vlewis at suffolk.lib.ny.us









-----Original Message-----
From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Cathleen M. Urbain
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:16 PM
To: jmckinney at worlded.org; HealthLiteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1543] National Health Literacy Act of 2007

The National Health Literacy Act of 2007 draft legislation is exciting
because it is testament to an increasingly effective lobby on the issue of
health literacy.  Thank you in advance for providing easy links to track the
bill's progress.  

 

I appreciate the importance of an infrastructure to move an issue forward
through coordination, education, identification of emerging focus needs,
advocacy, etc.  Nonetheless, the focus of the bill on the development of
this infrastructure leaves efforts that are currently in progress
unsupported.  It takes a long time to develop a national center and the
state structures it will fund.  Is it possible to arrange interim support
through one of the existing organizations providing national leadership in
health literacy, or in some other manner address the focus on future
infrastructure versus current groundswell efforts? 

 

A few other items-

Under the Center's proposed duties:

*     Adding language to include the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HHS
and its medical home initiative to the areas of implementation partnership
[Section 3 (b) (2) (F)]? 

*     Adding the italicized language to Section 3 (b) (2) (G): .to
facilitate the coordination and promote the development of health literacy
activities within the Department of Health and Human Services and the
Department of Education.  

*     Adding language to insure the upfront inclusion of special education
within the health literacy initiatives in elementary and secondary schools
[Section 3 (b) (2) (C)

Under State Health Literacy Resource Centers:

*     Adding language to Eligibility [Section 3 (c) (2)] to allow funding of
organizations that have initiatives of nationwide scope.  The emphasis on
state initiatives could be met by requiring the organization to have in
place agreements to partner with several of the state centers.

 

I give many thanks to everyone who spent much time and sustained effort in
bringing this proposed legislation into being. Congratulations! 

 

 

Cathleen Urbain, Ph.D.

Patient Advocacy

 

Pediatric Home Service

2800 Cleveland Ave N

Roseville, MN 55113

 

(P) 651-789-2114

(F) 651-638-0680

www.pediatrichomeservice.com <http://www.pediatrichomeservice.com/> 

 

taking care of the child

 

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