Table of Contents

• Background to the Project
• Project Activities
• Organization of this Report
• Acknowledgements
• Project Goal
• Specific Objectives:
• Objective 1: To offer 15 literacy and health training sessions to RHAs across Manitoba
  • Successes and Challenges
• Objective 2: To demonstrate the link between low literacy and poor health
  • What We Did
  • Successes
  • Final Survey Results
• Objective 3: To teach health providers to recognize signs of low literacy in their clients
  • What We Did
  • Successes
• Objective 4: To teach literacy and health workers how to use plain language and clear design in their documents
  • What We Did
  • Successes
  • Challenges
• Objective 5: To teach health providers sound teaching principles for oral communication
  • What We Did
  • Successes
• Objective 6: To encourage partnerships between literacy and health workers
  • What We Did
  • Successes
  • Final Survey Results Partnerships: Steps Already Taken
  • Final Survey (Health Workers) Suggested Next Steps to Forming Partnerships
  • Final Survey (Literacy Workers)
  • Final Survey (Health Workers) Partnerships in Health Promotion
  • Literacy and Health Partnerships in Parkland RHA
  • Literacy and Health Connections in the Interlake
• Objective 7: To offer 15 literacy and health training sessions to RHAs across Manitoba
  • Successes
  • Final Survey (Literacy Workers) Steps Taken Towards Teaching Health Topics
  • Challenges
• Outputs
• Appendices
  • Appendix 1: List of Health Materials Acquired by LPM Library as part of Health Project
  • Appendix 2: Literacy and Health Training Session: An Agenda
  • Appendix 3: ClearDoc Index
  • Appendix 4: Final Survey of Health Workers
  • Appendix 5: Final Survey of Literacy Workers