Literacy Florida! Inc.
Florida Literacy Volunteers
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Student Persistence and Transition Project After adults gain their basic skills with help from a caring volunteer, they often need to transition into an adult education class to gain additional skills. This is especially true for the many needing a high school diploma. This transition was an area identified at Literacy Florida!’s board retreat held in Fort Lauderdale in fall 2006. As a result, we applied for and received a federal leadership grant administered by the Florida Department of Education. We are partner with five local volunteer literacy programs to study student persistence transition and to develop a tutor training component on this topic. The five programs selected were: Literacy Volunteers of Leon County, Broward County Library Learning Services, Calhoun County Public Library, Learn to Read of Northwest Florida, Inc., and Literacy Volunteers of Collier County. Read our fact sheet on this program. Annual Meeting The Literacy Florida, Inc.! Annual Meeting is May 2, Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the 2007 Florida Literacy Conference which is sponsored by the Florida Literacy Coalition http://www.floridaliteracy.org Florida Book Awards For the first time, the State of Florida has its own book awards. There are winners in seven categories including fiction, non-fiction, young adult literature, and a title in Spanish. Go to the following web site to see the list of authors. Click Here Viewed April 29, 2007 Board Nominations Literacy Florida! members are encouraged to submit nominations for the Board of Directors to be elected at our Annual Meeting on May 3rd. Directors meet quarterly face to face, other months via conference calls. Without wide-spread support, the Board is limited in what services it can provide to all members. Please contact Jim Wilder (President) or Sandy Newell (Vice-President) for more information. New Address Our address has changed. You may reach us at: You may reach us through our email address literacyflorida@hotmail.com . Board Meetings New Board Members Glenda Norvell, director of the Panhandle Adult Literacy Center (PALC), was elected to the board at the May annual meeting. PALC is one of five regional literacy centers in Florida funded through grants awarded by the Florida Department of Education. Leon County Schools sponsors PALC which provides free training and technical assistance for adult and family literacy programs in the Florida panhandle. More about PALC can be found at their web page http://www.ace-leon.org/palc/. You may contact Norvell at norvellg@ACE-Leon.org Ellen Lauricella, former director of the Leon County Public Library’s volunteer literacy program also joined the board in May. Laurencella brings a wealth of experience related to volunteer literacy. She currently works as a private consultant and was part of the Florida Literacy Coalition’s team developing a new train the trainer program. The Coalition funded this effort to help volunteer groups get more basic reading and English for Speakers of Other Languages trainers out in the field. You may reach Laurencella at ellenlauricella@yahoo.com. Leaving a Literacy Legacy Literacy Florida! Inc. is pleased to offer our members an Estate Planning Information Kit read more....
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New Publications on Adult Reading Research based is the new buzz word used by the US Department of Education to describe the "right" reading strategies to use with adults. The National Institute for Literacy has two new publications on reading and research read more… National Assessment of Adult Literacy Update read more… Health Literacy Assessment of Adult Literacy This report is the first release of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) health literacy results. The assessment used four performance levels: Below Basic, Basic, Intermediate, and Proficient. The majority of adults (53 percent) had Intermediate health literacy. About 22 percent had Basic and 14 percent had Below Basic health literacy. Go to http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006483 for the report. Viewed April 29, 2007 More Resources on Health Medline Plus has 165 interactive tutorials created to provide easy to access information on diseases, tests and surgery. Topics range from tuberculosis to warts. These are accessible for anyone who learns better through pictures and audio. They can be found at http://medlineplus.gov/ Viewed April 29, 2007 Verizon Thinkfinity has compiled the following links on health literacy http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/Health-and-Safety-Literacy.112.0.html Viewed April 29, 2007 How To Respond To Inquiries About the 2003 NAAL Report read more… Public Policy Updates Available on Proliteracy Web Site ProLiteracy Worldwide has added a new resource to its Web site. The ProLiteracy Policy Update is a summary of what is happening in Congress that affects the adult education and literacy field. The report will be updated quarterly or more often if developments warrant it. To access the Policy Update, press the button on the right side of the Home Page at www.proliteracy.org. We hope that you will find this resource helpful in keeping you informed about Congressional developments.
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