Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j6RLSRG12039; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:28:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:28:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <42E7FB60.2080402@goldfieldaccess.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Archie Willard <millard@goldfieldaccess.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4774] New Readers of Iowa 2005 Health/Literacy Conference X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 4015 Lines: 84 The New Readers of Iowa have been together for 16 years now and we are about to have our 16th state conference on Saturday, September 10, at the Sheraton Four Points Airport Hotel, 1810 Army Post Road, Des Moines, Iowa. The phone number is 515 287 6464. Ask for the New Readers of Iowa Conference room rate. This will be a one day conference from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On one of the listservs there has been some discussion about how hard it is for a person with poor literacy skills to pursue their right to happiness that is guaranteed to us by our constitution. Because of the many things that are happening in our society today it is becoming harder to do. The New Readers of Iowa state conferences are aimed at helping adult learners to communicate better and we want them to come away better prepared to deal with the little things in life. When we as adult learners get better at communication we build our confidence and we do better things with our lives. When you’ve grown up and have lost your childhood dreams as a child, you become very defensive about yourself, your life and many other things because of your past experiences. The bad memories and the struggles of not learning to read clog your thinking and you can’t see all the beautiful little things in life that are all around you. By having these conferences we have tried to build confidence in adult learners and enable them to have a happy and more productive life. Good health is one of those things that will help us and it is something we all should be working on: how to use the health system. It is very complicated not just for adult learners, but for all of us. The topic of this year’s conference is health and literacy. A group of pharmacists will be there to provide information for you about your medications. You can bring your medications in and ask questions about them. We will have very general health screening. The “Ask Me 3” project will be reviewed and a panel of new readers will share their perspectives about their experiences with it. A dietician will talk about nutrition. We will have a presentation about the new law that goes into effect in 2006 concerning how to access prescription drugs for people who have no drug coverage and other helpful information about health care. I feel we have a very good program with some good speakers from the health field: Rima Rudd, Sc. D., Harvard University School of Public Health; Joanne Schwartzberg, M.D., American Medical Association; Mary Mincer Hansen, State Health Commissioner; Dr. David Peat from the UK who is working on health literacy in the UK; and others. I’m asking adult literacy programs all over the country to send adult learners to our health and literacy conference and give them a chance to grow. This conference is one of a kind and it is one of the few student conferences still out there, so we need your support to keep adult literacy alive for people who have poor literacy skills. At these conferences we all come to learn together but if you are not an adult learner and you want to learn with us and from each other, you are welcome to attend the conference. There is no conference fee, but you need to register by calling Karmen Shriver at 1 888 466 4222, ext. 4341. At the end of the conference, the adult learners will have a discussion and compare the last two conferences and talk about what they have learned. If they feel they need to add to the Health Literacy Statement that we made at last year’s conference, we will do this at that time. I hope to see many of you at our conference. Contributors to the conference: The Iowa Department of Education Pfizer Harvard School of Public Health The Iowa Health System The Learning Disabilities Association of Iowa American Medical Association World Education North Iowa Area Community College HyVee Food Stores Thank you, Archie Willard Conference Chair and Adult Learner -- Archie Willard URL - http://www.readiowa.org/archiew.html
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