Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This brief explains what health literacy skills are and why they are important.

This toolkit provides communication techniques for facilitating a healthy living program for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

The ESOL Tutor Resource Pack includes resources for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutors to use with learners who are in prison or who have had recent experience with the criminal justice system. 

Although developed for immigrant populations living in New York City, We Speak NYC videos can be adapted to serve all ELLs, as they help English language learners improve their language skills, learn about their rights, and access city services.

The Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education provides a forum for sharing research, information, theory, commentary, and practical experiences that will improve the quality of services for adult basic education, literacy, and numeracy learners.

This study explores English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classrooms as a site for health literacy interventions.

This is an English learner's guide to health care and healthy living. 

Staying Healthy for Beginners is a curriculum that seeks to enhance students' understanding of health information, while at the same time improving their English language and literacy skills. The resource is a beginner’s addition to the original Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living. 

This article focuses on the use—and the lack of use—of health literacy within efforts to address public health in the United States.

The purpose of this practitioner's guide is to inform practitioners about the current descriptions of health literacy and the relevance of this topic to adult education and family literacy practices.

Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension's major health finance initiative is Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW). This program is designed to motivate consumers to implement behavior change strategies that simultaneously improve their health and personal finances. SSHW includes the following resources: book chapters, behavior change strategies, motivational messages, multimedia, posters, research, and journal articles. 

The resource presents a lesson plan at four skill levels for teaching English learners how to describe physical pain to healthcare providers.

This booklet can be used to help students build important health literacy skills, such as understanding important preventative health measures and understanding basic health information with a goal towards utilizing it to make appropriate health decisions.

Written by an international and multi-disciplinary team of health literacy advocates, this charter outlines a new definition of health literacy and also a set of its core principles. 

Coping with Stress: A Special Addition to Staying Healthy – An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy is a special addition to the Staying Healthy: An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living curriculum. This resource is an introduction to stress and stress management. 

This report details a project in which adult education students were trained to provide feedback to help hospitals improve their practices. A step-by-step process is provided enabling other adult education programs to replicate this project.

This National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy seeks to engage organizations, professionals, policymakers, communities, individuals, and families in a linked, multisector effort to improve health literacy.

This report describes a health literacy education program that is suitable for English language and adult literacy learners.

Women's Health: A Special Addition to Staying Healthy - An English Learner's Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living is a special addition to Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living.

This resource is a wellness curriculum for English as a Second Language (ESL) students.

This resource is a parent awareness health literacy unit that provides essential oral health care information for parents of young children.

This September 2008 webcast focuses on new and emerging topics in health literacy.