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 j89DBxG08221; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:11:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:11:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <p04330100bf473a3fe7ec@[10.10.10.55]> 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: Lynn Chiarelli <lchiarelli@cpha.ca> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4798] RE: Help re/ Katrina X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Status: O Content-Length: 2724 Lines: 89 Sarah Williamson works with the Plain Language Service of the Canadian Public Health Association. She has offered to help revise instructions and forms and can be contacted at swilliamson@cpha.ca. Lynn >Count the Literacy Assistance Center in as well. Rachael Nicolosi (New >Orleans Literacy Alliance) is looking to help people register with FEMA. >The system is internet based - and many people cannot connect at this >point. She has asked us for plain language instructions for applying for >the $2,000 debit card. I have not seen an applicaton yet, but if someone >does - please let us know so we can forward it to her. > >Best, > >Elyse Babrell Rudolph >LAC > >Original Message: >----------------- >From: rrudd rrudd@hsph.harvard.edu >Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:05:47 -0400 (EDT) >To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov >Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4796] RE: Help re/ Katrina > > >Len and Ceci - >Thank you for this call to action. Please count me in as well. >This late fall we [NCSALL] will be working with the Louisiana Adult >Education >Programs on a skills based approach to health literacy. >Rima Rudd > > >>===== Original Message From nifl-health@nifl.gov ===== >>Dear List-serv members, >> >>Perhaps there is a way for the special skills of list-serv members to help >>the victims of the hurricane who are now in need of relief from a number of >>public and private agencies. >> >>Based on the NALS survey, it is clear that many thousands of victims, who >>have limited literacy skills, will have to cope with complex and hastily >designed >>instructions on how to get aid in many forms. >> >>Would it make sense to offer our services gratis to the many helping >agencies >>to assist them to design their emergency instructions and forms so they are >>more understandable? (I know that Ceci and I would be willing to give >same-day >>e-mail turn around to any draft material that is to help with their >services.) >> >>What do you think? Who should be contacted? >> >>best wishes, >> >>Len and Ceci Doak > >Rima E. Rudd, MSPH, Sc.D. >Department of Society, Human Development,and Health >Harvard School of Public Health >677 Huntington Avenue >Boston, MA 02115 >Phone: 617-432-1135 >fax: 617-432-3123 >Note new listings on our Health Literacy Web Site: >www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthliteracy > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >mail2web - Check your email from the web at >http://mail2web.com/ . -- Lynn Chiarelli Project Coordinator/Coordonnatrice de projet Canadian Public Health Association/Association canadienne de santé publique 400-1565 Carling Avenue Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R1 Telephone: 613-725-3769 x112 Fax/Télécopieur: 613-725-9826 Web: www.cpha.ca/literacyandhealth
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