The Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership has developed a variety of training and presentations materials to help educate individuals and health care professionals about the importance of health literacy. These materials are free and available for your use.

Plain Language Campaign - NEW!!!

Plain language is one of the strategies supporting the Minnesota Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy priority of adopting and using health literacy best practices across all verbal, written and visual communication.  Plain language is all about using simple, easy-to-understand words.  It is communication that your audience can understand the first time they hear or read it.

The Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership’s Plain Language Campaign is intended to serve as a tool for a wide range of health organizations to increase the use of plain language and improve health literacy in Minnesota.

·         The campaign includes several promotional and awareness building pieces:

o   Key messages and talking points document

o   Business case for plain language

o   Promotional message

o   Social Media messaging: samples of social media messaging

o   Plain Language infographic

o   Jargon Alerts: health and insurance terms that may be confusing or misunderstood with plain language alternatives and/or descriptions

o   Crossword puzzles: highlighting medical and insurance terminology and jargon

o   Plain Language presentation: a PowerPoint presentation describing key information about plain language with resources and speaker notes

o   Plain Pledge sign: sign to be used when participating in the #PlainPledge® (a social media campaign and registered trademark of the UAMS Center for Health Literacy)

Presentations

• Presentation and Training Tips
  This Word document includes tips for presenting to adult learners.
• Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership: An Overview
  This PowerPoint presentation, which includes slides as well as speaker notes, is designed to help educate individuals and organizations about the Minnesota Health Literacy Partnership. It can be used on its own or as part of Health Literacy 101.

Training Materials

• Health numeracy toolkit
  • Health numeracy outline
  • Health numeracy program options guide
  • Health numeracy powerpoint presentation
  • Health numeracy toolkit references

• Teach-back program
  • Teach-back video
  • Teach-back powerpoint presentation
  • Teach-back program guide
  • Click here to give us feedback on our teach-back program.  Thank you!

• HeLP MN Seniors
  HeLP MN Seniors is a new health literacy program to empower and educate older adults. Read more

• Health Literacy 101: Focusing on Clear Health Communications
  This program is designed to help educate health professionals about health literacy and includes everything you need: presentation, activities, pre- and post-tests and more.