Explore these Curated Health Literacy Resources

 Free Training from the CDC: (you'll need to create an account, but it should be free)

• Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
  

• Fundamentals of Communicating Health Risks
  

• Effective Communication for Healthcare Teams: Addressing Health Literacy, Limited English Proficiency and Cultural Differences
  

• Culture and Language, Cross-Cultural Communication

• GOOD QUESTIONS FOR GOOD HEALTH

  • Presentation Notes, Activity, Take-Home Handout, and Evaluation

  • Presentation

• Guidelines, Laws, Standards

• Evaluate Skills & Programs

• Collaborate: Working with Health Care Providers, Libraries, Schools, Community Organizations & Cooperative Extensions
  

• Create a Health Literacy Plan

• Non-CDC Training

Communicate Health (agency)

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ):

• About Health Literacy

  • Personal: the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others

  • Organizational: the degree to which organizations equitably enable individuals to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others

• Health Literacy Improvement Tools

• Health Literacy Professional Education and Training

• Health Literacy Publications

• Patient Engagement and Education

• Research Tools, Data, and Funding

• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition: Address Language Differences: Tool #9

University at Albany, School of Public Health (many great, self-paced online trainings available, including addressing health equity)

• Health Literacy & Public Health: Introduction

Institute for Healthcare Advancement (not free)

• Health Literacy Specialist Certificate Program: "Enhance your knowledge and day-to-day skills with 50 lessons across 7 health literacy domains. Together, 7 micro-credential programs make up the complete HLS Certificate."

HRSA

• Health Literacy

• Workshop: Organizational Change to Improve Health Literacy - free download PDF available via Institute of Medicine
  

• Online Learning Collaborative: Roots of Health Inequity
  

• Culture, Language, and Health Literacy

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library & Informatics Center

• Online Health Literacy Training Programs

National Academy of Medicine

• Language, Interpretation, and Translation: A Clarification and Reference Checklist in Service of Health Literacy and Cultural Respect

Connecticut State Library

• Library Services to Multi-Lingual Communities in Connecticut: Health Literacy: Resources in Other Languages

Healthy People 2020

• Language and Literacy

Healthy People 2030

• Language and Literacy