Hi,
Arthur Culbert is trying to put together a 14 state Health Liteacy
Cooperative. He works with Health Litercy Missouri.  You may want to
check with him.

Steve
Steven R. Rush, MA LP
Director Health Literacy Innovation
UnitedHealth Group Alliances
9701 Data Park Drive MN006-E500
Minnetonka, MN 55343
Office: 952-931-5975 I Fax: 952-931-4649 I 
Email: steven_r_rush at uhc.com
 
 
 

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From: healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:healthliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Julie McKinney
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:16 AM
To: healthliteracy at nifl.gov
Subject: [HealthLiteracy 3633] Wednesday Question: State Support for
HealthLiteracy

Hi Everyone,

Well, it's been a very chatty October for us so far! (Lots of good
stuff!) And things have quieted enough for me to post a Wednesday
Question without clogging your mailboxes too much.

Many states have one or more health literacy activities going on, in
varying degrees of scope. But health literacy does not have any
overseeing organization to organize and share the work within each state
and among states. The adult literacy field has state directors, and
there is a department of public health in each state, along with many
other state-organized agencies that interact in various ways with health
literacy.

So my question is: If some kind of state organization were to help
coordinate the health literacy activities in each state and share with
other states, what kind of structure and support activities would be
helpful? I'm going to leave it very open, and would love to hear any
comments.

All the best,
Julie

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