[NLA] Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL

[AndresMuro@aol.com]

Hey Tom: I am strongly advocating the incorporation of public health into education at all levels from k-12 to adult literacy and the collaboration between public health educators, teachers and other representatives of both fields towards this goal. I have presented arguments in favor of this at the HHS Office of Minority Health Conference and I have just received a grant form pfizer to explore this idea and train teachers and health educators in several communities. This is something that I would advocate and push for. HHS and some state adult ed departments have expressed an interest in this idea, but there is no serious investment in this effort yet. If you need more details or info about this effort, let me know.

Andres  

In a message dated Thu, 1 Aug 2002 4:29:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Sticht <tsticht at znet.com> writes:

>NLA Colleagues:                     August 1, 2002
>
>Help For Adult Literacy Outside NIFL
>
>Recently, representatives of a large private charitable foundation
>contacted me and set up a meeting for us to get together. The purpose of
>the meeting was to ask me to spend some time advising the foundation on
>how it might most usefully put $100 million over a five year period ($20
>million per year) into work on young adult (16-24 years if age) literacy
>education. A lot of the foundation’s interest is in helping low English
>proficient (LEP) learners.  Ideally, the work would help the young adults
>develop their language and literacy abilities while also producing useful
>new knowledge for the field of adult education.
>
>Given the relatively low investments presently being made in this type of
>work, I have been impressed that a private foundation would be interested
>in it. I’m wondering what kinds of strategic ideas members of the NLA list
>might have for this type of activity. Should it complement and/or extend
>NCSALL, NIFL, and OVAE/DAEL work, and if so, how, or are there new
>directions that should be taken?
>
>I thought it might be of interest to list members to conduct a bit of a
>discussion about this activity on the list. Alternatively, you can contact
>me off the list at tsticht at aznet.net with your comments.
>
>Thanks,
>Tom Sticht
>
>
>
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