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    Win-Win-Win: Building partnerships between adult learners and health care organizations
    Author: Steve Sparks
    Subject Area: Health
    Program Level: Conference 2019 Materials
    Material Type: Presentations/Slideshows
    Language: English
    License: (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) For license summary click here
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    Abstract:

    Wisconsin Health Literacy (WHL) is a statewide organization raising awareness of the importance of health literacy and fostering better communication between health care consumers and health care providers. WHL is a division of Wisconsin Literacy, Inc., a nonprofit coalition representing a membership of 75 community-based literacy agencies.
    Open Door Collective: Reducing Poverty and Building Partnerships between Adult Basic Skills Programs and Community Health Centers, public Libraries, and IMMIGRANT and poverty reduction Advocacy Groups
    Author: David J. Rosen, Judy Mortrude, Jen Vanek, Alicia Suskin and Kathy Harris
    Subject Area: Advocacy, Citizenship/Immigration, Health, Research
    Program Level: Adult Basic Education, Adult ESOL/ESL, Conference 2018 Materials
    Material Type: Presentations/Slideshows
    Language: English
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    Abstract:

    The Open Door Collective's mission is to reduce poverty and income inequality, and to include adult basic skills advocacy in other anti-poverty advocacy efforts. This is a presentation of  Open Door Collective papers on health and ABE, Libraries and ABE, New Americans and ABE (including ESL/ESOL) and ABE and safety net services.
    Enrolling GED® Prep Participants Into College Credit Base Career Pathway Certificate Programs
    Author: Arturo Martinez
    Subject Area: Health
    Program Level: Adult Basic Education, Conference 2018 Materials, GED Test Preparation
    Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategies
    Language: English
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    Abstract:

    The Milwaukee Area Technical College ABE Contextualized Career Pathway program is an Integrated Education & Training (IET) Program that currently enrolls GED® prep participants in an approved Career Pathway Credit Certificate program where students earn transferable college credits, while currently enrolled in their GED® program. The program is designed as a co-requisite model where ABE courses support student learning in the college level credit courses. This program has implemented the U. S. Department of Education "Ability to Benefit" for GED students to receive federal financial aid to cover tuition cost.
    Health Literacy in the Classroom – A Must-Have for Adult and English Learners
    Author: Julie McKinney
    Subject Area: Health
    Program Level: Conference 2017 Materials
    Material Type: Presentations/Slideshows
    Language: English
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    Abstract:

    What is health literacy? Integrating health into the literacy classroom Finding and using resources Sample resource: Staying Healthy Partnering and funding models
    Active Interactive Learning Without Fear
    Author: Kimberly Surgeon
    Subject Area: Career Pathways, Citizenship/Immigration, Health, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Speaking/Listening, Writing
    Program Level: Adult ESOL/ESL, Conference 2016 Materials
    Material Type: Presentations/Slideshows, Teaching/Learning Strategies
    Language: English
    License: (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) For license summary click here
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    Abstract:

    I do not teach English. I teach students how to learn English.

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