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Think Inside The Blocks: Health Literacy Outreach To Disadvantaged People In Their Own Environment, Nancy Patterson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

This bilingual (Spanish/English) poster highlights six creative health literacy outreach projects that have proven to be successful in increasing participation in health-related events in their communities and in boosting health literacy in the process.

For example, in Georgetown, South Carolina, a beauty salon owner, concerned about her clients’ frequent frustration with trying to decipher medical information, partners with her local public library and is grant funded to provide a Wellness Workstation in her salon. Years later, her clients research health information between services using the workstation, evening health literacy classes are regularly conducted for community members and continued funding has …

Choices: A Family-Based Childhood Obesity Intervention For Low Income Minority Children, Cynthia Williams Brown, Claudia Warren, Marian Booker

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

The objective of this presentation is to discuss the effectiveness of a 6-week summer childhood obesity intervention for low-income minority children ages 10-12. Topics will include strategies and best practices for effective summer programming for youth. The target audience includes practitioners, educators, and researchers interested in childhood obesity interventions involving families and communities.

Reaching Vs. Teaching: How To Connect With Youth In A Way That Changes Behavior, Jackie Brewton

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference

Jackie Brewton’s “Reaching vs. Teaching” workshop will equip attendees with tried and true techniques that have helped her to empower thousands of girls, as well as guys, to choose to delay sexual activity as the “best choice” option for their future. Attendees will learn effective approaches to connect with youth for long-term behavioral change Including: the importance of knowing their world and using culturally relevant examples; teaching students towards something not away from something; and how to help students think, not tell them how to think.