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October is Health Literacy Month! Incorporating best practices for health literacy improves health communication and understanding for families and staff in Head Start programs. Recently, Healthy People 2030 introduced a two-pronged definition of health literacy: personal and organizational. In this webinar, we’re exploring this revised definition and demonstrating how health communication is a process. The webinar also explains the importance of incorporating health literacy practices into communications with staff and families.

This webinar is offered with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.

Key Topics
In this webinar, we’re discussing:

• How organizations can equitably inform health-related decisions and actions
• 10 attributes of health literate organizations
• Resources to support health literate practices

Target Audience
This webinar benefits:

• Head Start and Early Head Start program staff, families, directors, managers, and administrators
• Home visitors
• Child care health consultants
• Infant and early childhood mental health consultants
• Head Start federal staff
• Head Start TTA staff
• Head Start Collaboration Office directors