Ian, 

Here is an example of a literacy and health collaboration you might be
interested in.  The New Hampshire Tobacco Control Program and Bureau of
Adult Education collaborated on a project to bring information about smoking
to young adults in ABE and GED programs.  As a consultant on the project, I
worked with adult education teachers and learners in New Hampshire to create
and then pilot tested a series of lessons designed to develop core literacy
skills and convey information about the health effects of tobacco use. The
lessons focused on math, language arts, and computer research skills and
delivered information relevant to both smokers and nonsmokers. Evaluation
data from the pilot showed significant gains in understanding of secondhand
smoke health effects, and in knowledge of local smoking cessation programs
among participants; the pilot program was also very well received by both
teachers and learners.  Project partners believe that integrating literacy
and tobacco education represents a highly targeted and replicable strategy
for providing individual and community education around the hazards of
smoking and how to get quit-smoking help.  For more information about the
project or copies of the lessons, contact Martha Bradley, Community Health
Institute, Bow, NH at 603-573-3318 or email her at mbradley at jsi.com.

Sabrina
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Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi, M.Ed., Health Literacy Consultant 
Coordinator, Health Information Literacy Research Project, 
Medical Library Association 
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Tufts University School of Medicine
781-835-6488 phone; 781-391-4409 fax;
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[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Bennett, Ian
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 10:49 AM
To: The Health and Literacy Discussion List; healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1703] Re: Request for informationon
collaborationsbetween Adult Ed and Medical providers

Thanks Julie,
One thing that strikes me is that it is not obvious from any of these sites
how adult educators are part of the programs. It may just not be described
well but what I am looking for are examples where ABLE/ESOL educators,
programs, organizations are partnered with health providers, programs,
organizations. I think there is a need to have such collaboration and I am
trying to document cases where this has occurred. Did I miss something with
the sites on the Wiki?
Thanks,
Ian

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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Julie McKinney
Sent: Wed 1/23/2008 9:24 AM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 1701] Re: Request for information on
collaborationsbetween Adult Ed and Medical providers



Ian, I agree about the usefulness of this list. I have started one on the
Adult Literacy Education Wiki (ALE Wiki) on its health literacy page, but
have not added new ones for a while. If you get a list with descriptions, I
would be happy to put the new additions up there. In the meantime,  you can
go to it and see if you have the ones listed so far. You can find it at:

http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Health_Literacy

Look in "Promising Practices". They are not all collaborations, but most of
them are.

I hope we hear of more new ones!

Julie

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


>>> "Bennett, Ian" <Ian.Bennett at uphs.upenn.edu> 01/21/08 4:49 PM >>>

Hello everyone,

In preparation for the upcoming Focus on Basics issue on Health Literacy I
would like to put together a listing of as many examples of collaborative
projects in which adult educators or adult education organizations are
partners/collaborators with medical providers, health system, or medical
organization as I can identify. If you could forward me any leads on this
with a description of the nature of the collaboration and any description on
web sites and publications (they are not necessary - just if it exists) that
would be great.

I think a loist of these types f programs would be very helpful to this
developing field.

Thanks,

Ian M. Bennett MD PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine


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