1 of the two-year Advancing Health Literacy for Enhancing Equitable Community Responses to COVID 19 grant. The goal of the BRAHL collaboration was to promote and enhance health literacy within the target areas incorporating the following program objectives: Project Objectives That Impacted Southern University, Baton Rouge Community College and GROWTH Services of Louisiana: 1. Provide monthly training and informational sessions in the target areas; 2. Build capacity of and empower community-based organizations to implement best practices for evidence-based health literacy programs; 3. Identify and equip community leaders with the necessary information to develop a cadre of supporters to advance the goals and objectives of BRAHL; 4. Utilize local media outlets to provide information to the public; provide educational opportunities for SULC students to engage with identified communities in sharing public health information and resources, supervised consultations and assistance to program participants. BRAHL will follow the guidelines established in the national action plan to improve health literacy released by the U. S. Department of Health and Human services.
Performance Measures:
GOAL 1: DEVELOP AND DISSEMINATE HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION
THAT IS ACCURATE,
ACCESSIBLE, AND ACTIONABLE.
During Year 1, the Baton Rouge Community College Foundation, along with the Baton Rouge Community College Skilled Nursing Program took the lead in developing a BRAHL logo for use by all partners, along with marketing messages for use on billboards and other media to promote health safety and education around COVID-19 in addition to general health promotion materials. Additionally, GROWTH Services of Louisiana collaborated with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to vet, develop and disseminate patient pamphlets to educate them regarding their rights as patients. Educational materials were also disseminated to patients while on-on-one in-person and telephonic interviews were conducted. Working with the BRAHL project evaluator [during Year 1] as well as the BRAHL program manager, interviews and surveys were collected from 14 BRAHL community-based organizations and major subrecipients (including two minority -serving institutions) to list various methods, tools and interventions utilized to meet Performance Measure Goal 1. All events held captured data depicting the number and types of health and safety data distributed and to whom ( Example: by Black Family Initiative, SULC VCPI, GROWTH and others).
BRAHL ANNUAL REPORT 2024 6
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