Gelo+

Raise awareness, train and stimulate

Many frontline professionals are insufficiently aware of health literacy and its importance. With this project:

• we want to convince policymakers to embed health literacy structurally in the culture of their organizations.
• we train health and welfare workers in health literate relationships and language.

To initiate the transition to health literate organizations, we develop:

• a train-the-trainers package to train health and welfare workers.
• a stimulation package for policymakers with a helicopter view of the entire train-the-trainers package, to make them enthusiastic about finding enough participants for the trajectory.

Stimuluspackage for policy makers:

• Short 'helicopter view' module with integration of the most important elements from the experience module, basic module and in-depth module of the train-the-trainers package.
• Evaluation module to improve the package and learn a methodology to realize the further rollout of the project.

Train-the-trainerspackage:

• Experience module: collecting 'communication samples' from various (new, complex) contexts to confront participants with what it means if you cannot simply follow.
• Basic module: elaboration based on the first 3 steps within the low health literacy approach (Pharos, 2015).
• In-depth module: elaboration based on the 3 last steps within the approach to low health literacy (Pharos, 2015).
• Evaluation module: to improve the package and learn a methodology for further rollout.