Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates

This Handbook is meant as a guide that all health literacy advocates can use to create, plan, run, and evaluate awareness-raising events. Think of it as a map you can refer to throughout the planning process.

Handbook topics range from brainstorming ideas and finding people to work with to putting an event together, marketing it, and assessing its effectiveness. It includes examples of events other people have conducted along with their insights and observations about why they made it hapen and what the event accomplished. Also, the Handbook has worksheets, review forms, a sample press release, a countdown calendar, and other practical tools.

Here's is a sampling from the Table of Contents:

About Health Literacy and Health Literacy Month
Getting Started on Your Health Literacy Month Event
- Creating a vision
- Specifying measurable objectives
- Measuring success
- Building a team
- Partnering with other organizaitons
- Enlisting the help of influential others
- Being part of a larger community
Creating the Event
Exploring the Range of Possible Events
- Events for professionals
- Events for patients, students, and the community at large
- Events for the media
- Action and advocacy events
Putting It All Together
Marketing Your Event
- Ways to promote Health Literacy Month within your organization
- Ways to promote Health Literacy Month in your community
- Ways to promote Health Literacy Month around the world
Assessing Your Health Literacy Month Event
Appendices. These include "Countdown to Health Literacy Month: A List of Things to Do Including When to Do Them" plus other useful resources.

The Health Literacy Month Handbook is available in your choice of format:

Hard copy in a custom 3-ring binder for $68.50 (includes S&H)
PDF (sent by email) for $49.00
10 % discount when ordering 5 or more copies shipped to the same address. Contact Helen Osborne directly at helen@healthliteracy.com

Health Literacy Month Success Kit

The Health Literacy Month Success Kit shortens the learning curve of your event planning! For just $399.00, you will get the tools, resources, and guidance needed to ensure success of your Health Literacy Month event. It includes:

One copy of Health Literacy Month Handbook: The Event Planning Guide for Health Literacy Advocates. Written by Helen Osborne (founder of Health Literacy Month), this Handbook is filled with information and resources that all health literacy advocates can use to create, plan, run, and evaluate awareness-raising events.
Consultation and coaching with Helen Osborne. This is your time to brainstorm ideas, solve problems, and otherwise get the help you need to plan a succesful awareness-raising event. Consultation includes Helen's review of 2 of your marketing materials plus your choice of either: 1) one extensive conference call with the planning committee, or 2) two conversations just between you and Helen.
Your choice of either: 1) 100 Health Literacy Month buttons, or 2) a set of three Health Literacy Out Loud CDs. Start building your collection of health literacy resources now.

Shorten your learning curve and get started today:

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