Volume 13, Issue 2 Fall 2024 Braiding Together Family Literacy and Health Literacy: Insights Into New Program Development
Author: Bree Straayer, PhD & Wendy Falb, PhD
Subject Area: ESL/ELL, Health, Literacy
Program Level: COABE Journal
Material Type: Journal
Language: English
License: (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) For license summary click here

Abstract:

One of the largest family literacy providers in the Midwest shares a new initiative to bring the family literacy model to health care facilities as a means for providing families with deeper health literacy and language. The article details the early stages of program development, from codesign and deep-listening principles to the findings from the full program implementation. From these findings, we explore ways family literacy can bring important community conversations to the clinical space and inform future medical health literacy development.