Health and Literacy: Constructing Curriculum for Health-Care Providers
A Learning Institute, October 16-18, 2008, Calgary

About the Institute

The Centre for Literacy, Bow Valley College, and the Health and Learning Knowledge Centre (CCL) co-sponsored this three-day institute in Calgary on October 16-18, 2008. 

This Learning Institute set out to examine how to design health literacy curriculum for health care providers. We invited health care providers from every branch of health care service; curriculum developers in health care and adult basic education and literacy; ESL providers, administrators, policy makers and anyone with interest or expertise, to share promising practices and models, consider the challenges, and propose new directions for grounded health literacy curriculum for health care providers.

As interest built and individuals registered, community literacy providers wanted to broaden the focus to ask about curriculum for adult learners.  The program reflects that wider range of interests. 

We hope that presentations from the Institute will stimulate new thinking in many areas. Several discussions and projects have already been undertaken.