Table 2 provides the counts of the individuals who benefitted from the services provided by the vendors for the second year of the BRAHL project. For the second year of the project, vendors provided almost 17,000 individuals with professional services that help with health literacy. Over 7,000 individuals made use of the vendors created campaigns to support health literacy. Looking at the use of social media, almost 15,000 individuals made use of the information vendors provided by social media outlets, such as Facebook. Over 30,000 individuals had direct contact with BRAHL vendors and benefited from the services they provided to improve health literacy. Over 1,700 individuals benefited from the services provided by BRAHL vendors and the community partners recruited to assist with the BRAHL program. Vendor Highlights from Year 2: • Baton Rouge Advancing Healthcare Literacy (BRAHL) was able to collaborate with 14 partners. This partnership provided individuals with access to COVID-19 testing sites, provided COVID-19 vaccinations, as well as healthcare literacy pertaining to underlining health issues. • BRAHL collaborated with community partners to assist in the dissemination of both English and Spanish versions of a COVID-19 coloring book. And utilized participating community partners and others to assist in the transcription of English brochures to Spanish. Our program developed and implemented strategies to educate, advocate and support African – American patients, members of the Latinx (Hispanic), and Asian communities and their families during the pandemic to better understand their perspectives on COVID-19 mitigation behaviors, including mask-wearing, testing and vaccines. • BRAHL partnered with Family Resource Group and Mission Media. Mission Media developed and managed a BRAHL website and social media site on Facebook as well as an administrative Gmail account. These accounts were intended to manage and forward social account(s) contacts. BRAHL vendors hosted sessions to provide COVID-19 resources and information to participating individuals. These individuals were referred to qualified health care centers. BRAHL vendors have collaborated with FQHCs: Open Health, Care South, and Baton Rouge Primary Care. These FQHCs were in near proximity to the residence of targeted populations of the BRAHL project. The providers have also trained Health Literacy Coaches. • Community Partner Impact Nurse Consulting planned a 2-day free wellness clinic that took place in April 2023. The wellness clinic provided access to COVID – 19 testing, COVID – 19 vaccinations, and health care information pertaining to underlining conditions and information on how to manage chronic and acute health conditions. • Southern University Law School, through its VCPI initiative, successfully planned, developed, and implemented a legal clinic focused on health law and advocacy involving Southern University Law School students. This BRAHL partner administered a Health Law 768 Class, that followed a specifically designed course syllabus, to support the goals of the BRAHL grant. The course was designed to provide public health topics to educate students on outreach relative to health access and health issues impacting marginalized communities. • BRAHL Partner Baton Rouge Community College’s BRAHL Program held a Wellness Fair providing and promoting healthcare literacy and services. The Wellness Fair focused on diabetes, hypertension,
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