Health Literacy workshop

What: Promoting Health Literacy through Easy-to-Read Materials
When: Tuesday April 12, 2011 from 10AM to noon.
Where: Middletown Library Service Center.
Who: YOU! Librarians everywhere need this information.
Why: Better service to our most vulnerable and most fervently supportive patrons. Also, many grant opportunities involve health literacy.
How: Register (see below) and show up. Learn!

Program description: Michelle Eberle, Consumer Health Information Coordinator of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/New England Region will will discuss the challenges of finding understandable medical information for health consumers, the dangers of miscommunication between health providers and patients, the process of educating adults, specific tests to determine readability, and the National Action Plan for Health Literacy.

The workshop will include a hands-on opportunity to critique, rewrite, and create materials that help impart health and wellness information quickly and clearly.

Registration is required. Space is limited; to register, please send an email to Healthnet Program Director Alberta Richetelle: richetelle@nso.uchc.edu.

Include your name, name of your Library, email address, and phone number including a phone number on the day of the workshop.

Directions to the Middletown Library Service Center: http://ct.webjunction.org/510/articles/content/1090620

Healthnet: Connecticut Consumer Health Information Network
"Your Connecticut resource for free, authoritative consumer health information"
http://library.uchc.edu/departm/hnet/
Lyman Maynard Stowe Library
University of Connecticut Health Center