Hi Everyone,

I'm passing on information about an upcoming health literacy summit
organized by Wisconsin Literacy. They have done some great collaborative
work over the past few years, and this summit should be another good
one!

Check out their website, where you can read about what they've done, and
see the webcast from their last health literacy summit:

http://www.wisconsinliteracy.org/

Also, read an article that describes their health literacy partnership
in the latest issue of Focus on Basics:

PDF of Focus on Basics:
http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/fob/2008/fob_9b.pdf

Partnerships in North Carolina, wisconsin and New York
page 26

See below for the summit information.

Best,
Julie
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Wisconsin Literacy, Inc. announced the dates of its 2009 Health Literacy
Summit, sponsored by Verizon and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, to
be held in Madison on March 31 and April 1 in Exhibition Hall at the
Alliant Energy Center. The keynote speaker for the event will be Andrew
Pleasant, co-author of the book Advancing Health Literacy: A Framework
for Understanding and Action.  Other plenary speakers include Dr. Marin
Allen of the National Institute for Health, who will speak on the
National Agenda for Health Literacy from the Center for Disease
Control’s Health Literacy Workgroup. Executive staff from the
Missouri Foundation for Health, including Arthur Culbert, Senior
Advisor, will speak about their plans to open the doors of Health
Literacy Missouri and collaborative health literacy efforts with other
Midwestern states.

The summit will also include workshops and presentations on:

§                         The Joint Commission’s New Health Literacy
Standards

§                         Health Literacy Initiatives from Wisconsin and
Other States

§                         Refugee Health Literacy

§                         Health Literacy Curricula

§                         Health Literacy Interventions in Health Care
Settings

Registration information to follow.

Wisconsin Literacy works to raise awareness of the impact of low
literacy on the state’s economy and the benefits to businesses, families
and communities of adult literacy services. The non-profit organization
also provides support and training to 58 adult and family literacy
programs statewide.

Michele Erikson
Executive Director
Wisconsin Literacy, Inc.
211 South Paterson Street
Suite 310
Madison, WI  53703
608-257-1655
608-661-0208 (Fax)
michele at wisconsinliteracy.org
www.wisconsinliteracy.org 

 




Julie McKinney
Health Literacy List Moderator
World Education
jmckinney at worlded.org