Resources
Digital Health Literacy
Beta versions of our Richmond Digital Health curriculum are publicly available at www.richmondhealth.learnerweb.org . Click on "create and account" in the upper right hand corner to get started. Return anytime to log-in to resume where you left off.
Compiled Richmond Community Resources have can be found in this shared google spreadsheet. Some of this data has been turned into maps:
"When you need more than Google": Best practices for providing health information presentation slides and helpful handouts. These resources were presented at a 4 hour training in Richmond Oct 29-30 2015 by Kelli Ham, a Consumer Health and Technology Librarian with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Photos and more info about the event are on this blog post.
Digital Literacy
Digital Learn: Free learning tools to health make technology work for you: http://digitallearn.org/learn
GCF Learn Free: Offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactive activities, completely free. http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ (English) or http://www.gcfaprendelibre.org/tecnologia/index.do (Español)
National Tech Goes Home: easy-to-use tutorials and compiled online resources to help families live, learn, work and play: http://www.nationaltechgoeshome.org/
National Telecommunications and Information Administration: Collection of digital literacy resources by skill type and topic (including health): http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/content/educator
EveryoneOn: a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service and computers, and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans. http://everyoneon.org/
Health Literacy
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage to Care: an initiative to help people with new health care coverage understand their benefits and connect to primary care and the preventive services that are right for them:
https://marketplace.cms.gov/technical-assistance-resources/c2c.html
Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS): maintains a collection of great resources and have multiple online communities of adult educators, including one on health literacy and another on technology and learning
Finding Health and Wellness @ the Library: A Consumer Health Toolkit for Library Staff, 2nd Edition, California State Library & National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, July, 2013. http://www.library.ca.gov/lds/docs/healthtoolkit.pdf
This IMLS and DHHS-NIH-funded consumer health guide for library staff is a valuable resource for development of the online Digital Health Literacy curriculum.
Local projects
Building Healthy Communities is a ten-year, comprehensive community initiative funded by the California Endowment. Richmond is one of ten sites that is creating a revolution in the way Californians think about and support health in their communities. Healthy Richmond is the local hub for this initiative, uniting residents, stakeholders, and organizations to bring meaningful and lasting improvements to the health of children and youth in Richmond. http://healthyrichmond.net/
City of Richmond’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative is an integrated and comprehensive approach to bring health, well-being, and equity considerations into the development and implementation of policies, programs, and services of traditionally non-health related government systems or agencies. It is based on the idea that health starts with where people live, work, learn, and play and that individual and community health is influenced by more than just individual choices. One’s physical and psychosocial environment, culture, government, etc. all play a role in influencing and determining both individual and population health. http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=2575
The Richmond Digital Health Literacy Project works closely with City of Richmond staff who coordinate this initiative and its community engagement activities.
Beta versions of our Richmond Digital Health curriculum are publicly available at www.richmondhealth.learnerweb.org . Click on "create and account" in the upper right hand corner to get started. Return anytime to log-in to resume where you left off.
Compiled Richmond Community Resources have can be found in this shared google spreadsheet. Some of this data has been turned into maps:
- Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Emergency Care
- Low cost dentists & eye care
- Social services
- Arts and enrichment
"When you need more than Google": Best practices for providing health information presentation slides and helpful handouts. These resources were presented at a 4 hour training in Richmond Oct 29-30 2015 by Kelli Ham, a Consumer Health and Technology Librarian with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Photos and more info about the event are on this blog post.
Digital Literacy
Digital Learn: Free learning tools to health make technology work for you: http://digitallearn.org/learn
GCF Learn Free: Offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactive activities, completely free. http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ (English) or http://www.gcfaprendelibre.org/tecnologia/index.do (Español)
National Tech Goes Home: easy-to-use tutorials and compiled online resources to help families live, learn, work and play: http://www.nationaltechgoeshome.org/
National Telecommunications and Information Administration: Collection of digital literacy resources by skill type and topic (including health): http://www.digitalliteracy.gov/content/educator
EveryoneOn: a national nonprofit working to eliminate the digital divide by making high-speed, low-cost Internet service and computers, and free digital literacy courses accessible to all unconnected Americans. http://everyoneon.org/
Health Literacy
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage to Care: an initiative to help people with new health care coverage understand their benefits and connect to primary care and the preventive services that are right for them:
https://marketplace.cms.gov/technical-assistance-resources/c2c.html
Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS): maintains a collection of great resources and have multiple online communities of adult educators, including one on health literacy and another on technology and learning
Finding Health and Wellness @ the Library: A Consumer Health Toolkit for Library Staff, 2nd Edition, California State Library & National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Southwest Region, July, 2013. http://www.library.ca.gov/lds/docs/healthtoolkit.pdf
This IMLS and DHHS-NIH-funded consumer health guide for library staff is a valuable resource for development of the online Digital Health Literacy curriculum.
Local projects
Building Healthy Communities is a ten-year, comprehensive community initiative funded by the California Endowment. Richmond is one of ten sites that is creating a revolution in the way Californians think about and support health in their communities. Healthy Richmond is the local hub for this initiative, uniting residents, stakeholders, and organizations to bring meaningful and lasting improvements to the health of children and youth in Richmond. http://healthyrichmond.net/
City of Richmond’s Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative is an integrated and comprehensive approach to bring health, well-being, and equity considerations into the development and implementation of policies, programs, and services of traditionally non-health related government systems or agencies. It is based on the idea that health starts with where people live, work, learn, and play and that individual and community health is influenced by more than just individual choices. One’s physical and psychosocial environment, culture, government, etc. all play a role in influencing and determining both individual and population health. http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=2575
The Richmond Digital Health Literacy Project works closely with City of Richmond staff who coordinate this initiative and its community engagement activities.