Acknowledgements

The Canadian Public Health Association's (CPHA) National Literacy and Health Program wants to thank the National Literacy Secretariat for funding the development of Mind Over Violence Everywhere (M.O.V.E.).

We also want to thank the following groups for their help in organizing focus groups of youth: Frontier College; the Students Commission; Central Eastern Literacy Outreach Office – Gander, NF; Newtown Learning Centre, Surrey, BC; YMCA of Moncton, NB; Regional Library of Halifax, NS; and the White Buffalo Youth Lodge of Saskatoon, SK.

CPHA thanks the National Literacy and Health Program partners, health providers and literacy practitioners who reviewed this resource and offered helpful suggestions.

And finally, thank you to the hundreds of youth who gave their opinions, shared their stories, inspired creativity and gave valuable feedback. You are heroes of an uncommon nature and inspire hope and compassion for all.

Canadian Public Health Association

The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) is a national, independent, not-for-profit voluntary association representing public health in Canada with links to the international public health community. CPHA's mission is to constitute a special national resource in Canada that advocates for the improvement and maintenance of personal and community health according to the public health principles of disease prevention, health promotion and protection, and healthy public policy.

National Literacy and Health Program

The National Literacy and Health Program (NLHP) is a partnership of 27 national health associations working to raise awareness among Canadian health professionals about the links between literacy and health. The NLHP provides health professionals with resources designed to help them serve people with low literacy skills more effectively. The NLHP's Plain Language Service supports improved health communication by offering plain language revisions, assessments and workshops to the public, not-forprofit and private sectors.