March 2 - 5, 2000
Designing Our Future - Women's Learning, Education, and Training in Canada: 2000 and Beyond - Toronto ON
Org: Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Contact: The Congress Coordinator, CCLOW, 27 Follis Avenue, Toronto, ON Canada M6G 1S5 Tel: (416) 532 9108 Fax: (416) 532 6048
cclow@web.net
http://www.nald.ca/cclow.htm

March 11 - 14, 2000
AAAL 2000 Annual Convention - Vancouver BC
Org: American Association of Applied Linguistics
Contact: AAAL, PO Box 21686, Eagan, MN 55121-0686, USA Tel: (612) 953 0805 Fax: (612) 431 8404
aaaloffice@aaal.org
http://www.aaal.org/

March 14 - 18, 2000
TESOL 2000 - Vancouver BC
Org: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
Contact: TESOL, Convention Department 1600 Cameron Street, Suite 300 Alexandria, VA 22314-2751 USA Tel.: (703)836-0774 Fax: (703)836-7864
conv@tesol.edu
http://www.tesol.edu/

March 16 - 18, 2000
25th International Conference: Learning to be a citizen, challenge for all! - Montreal QC
Org: Learning Disabilities Assoc. of Quebec
Contact: LDAQ, P.O. Box 1678. Succ. Place d'Armes, Montreal, QC H2Y 3L2, Tel: (514) 847 1324, fax: (514) 281 5187
aqeta@sympatico.ca
http://educ.queensu.ca/~lda/aqeta/engconf.htm

March 16 - 18, 2000
Building Upon the Best of Theory and Practice in Adult Education - Pennsylvania USA
Org: National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Contact: 225 The Penn Stater Conference Center, University Park PA, 16802-7005 USA Tel: (814)863-5100 Fax: (814)863-5190
ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu
http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/EasternAdultEducation/
textonly.html

April 15, 2000
Sixth Annual Meeting of the Adult Numeracy Network - Illinois, USA
Org: The Adult Numeracy Network (ANN)
Contact: Nancy Markus, ANN , 2611 Ashton Road Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118 Tel: (216) 321-4831
nmarkus@juno.com
http://www.std.com/anpn/

April 17 - 19, 2000
Networked Learning 2000 - Sheffield, UK
Org: Lancaster University
Contact: The University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4XY, England, UK Tel: +44 1524 594 021Fax: +44 1524 844 262
nlc@lancaster.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/csnl/

April 26 to 29, 2000
The National Aboriginal Literacy Gathering - Morley AB
Org: National Aboriginal Design Committee
Contact: Jennifer Wemigwans, National Aboriginal Design Committee Tel: (416) 920-6742
jwemigwans@hotmail.com

April 30 - May 3, 2000
Literacy 2000 - Four Cornerstones of Correctional Education - Ottawa ON
Org: Correctional Service Canada and the US Department of Justice - Federal Bureau of Prisons
Contact: Correctional Service of Canada, 340 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa ON Canada K1A0P9 Tel: (613) 996-2014 Fax: (613) 996-0428
info@literacy2000.com
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/home_e.shtml

May 14 - 16, 2000
Literate Cities 2000 - Bathurst NB
Org: Canadian Association of Municipal Administrators, the City of Bathurst and Literacy NB Inc.
Contact: Particia Nutter, Project Director Tel: (613)236 1600 Fax:(613)726 8247
pnutter@cyberus.ca

May 18 - 20, 2000
Adult Literacy and Television: Has a Familiar Tool Been Overlooked? - Toronto ON
Org: The Centre for Literacy of Quebec
Contact: The Centre for Literacy, 3040 Sherbrooke St.W, Montreal QC H3Z 1A4 Tel: (514)931 8731 Fax: (514)931 5181
literacycntr@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
http://www.nald.ca/litcent.htm

May 28 - 30, 2000
Charting the Course for Literacy and Health in the New Millennium - Ottawa ON
Org: Canadian Public Health Association
Contact: 400-1565 Carling Ave., Ottawa ON K1Z 8R1 Tel: (613)725 3769 Fax: (613)725 9826
conferences@cpha.ca
http://www.nlhp.cpha.ca/charting/charting.htm

July 29 - August 1, 2000
Language Learning and Multimedia: Bridging Humanity andTechnology - Kobe, Japan
Org: LLA of Japan and IALL, USA
Contact: FLEAT-IV 1-18 Sijimi-cho Aoyama, Miki, Hyogo, 673-0521 JAPAN Tel: 0794-84-3572 Fax: 0794-85-1102
fleatQ&A@kuins.ac.jp
http://www.hll.kutc.kansai-u.ac.jp:8000/fleat4.html

October 19 - 21, 2000
Realms of Gold: the Fifth National Literacy Conference - Vancouver BC
Org: (CCTELA)
Contact: Canadian Council of Teachers of English Language Arts 201 Laval Crescent, Saskatoon SK S7H 4K6 Tel: (306) 374-9524 fax (306) 374-3240
ameier@sk.sympatico.ca
http://www.cctela.ca

Charting the Course for Literacy and Health

For the past six years, the Canadian Public Health Association's (CPHA) National Literacy and Health Program has worked with 26 national health associations to raise awareness among health professionals in Canada about the links between literacy and health. By promoting plain language health information and clear verbal communication techniques, the program has helped thousands of health professionals better serve their patients and clients. CPHA's Plain Language Service continues to offer professional plain language revisions and has produced a Directory of Plain Language Health Information for North America.

In May 2000 in Ottawa, CPHA's National Literacy and Health Program is hosting a conference - the first of its kind in North America - Charting the Course for Literacy and Health in the New Millennium. The purpose of the conference is to boost the profile of literacy as a key issue in health. CPHA hopes to bring literacy and health into focus as a valid field of research and help forge links and partnerships among literacy and health stakeholders.

The conference will feature low literacy health consumers' health stories, plain language and clear verbal communication training for health professionals, and a workshop on the links between the law, literacy and informed consent that will assist health professionals in better understanding their professional liability.

Plan to join the hundreds of health professionals, government representatives, researchers and academics, literacy providers, health administrators, policy makers, adult learners and representatives of pharmaceutical companies who will all be on hand to chart a course for literacy and health into the 21st century. For more information, see event details in Networks Datebook (above).