Lightning Talk: Michele Erikson - Health Literacy, Healthy Equity, and Our Response to COVID-19

Health Literacy, Health Equity, and Our Response to COVID-19

Michele Erikson

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1. Should this solution be national, regional, local or a combination with an intentional structure and designated channel?
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Lightning Talk Highlights

In this IHA Lightening Talk, Michele Erikson, the Executive Director of Wisconsin Literacy Inc, and the division Wisconsin Health Literacy, will share Wisconsin’s Literacy work on Health Literacy, Health Equity, and their response to COVID-19.

Wisconsin Literacy Pivots for a New Normal

Wisconsin Literacy is a statewide organization that builds the capacity of 70 local member agencies to teach adults reading and writing in English language, and to improve their job readiness skills.

In the middle of March, Erikson’s team noticed that their students were being incredibly impacted by COVID-19. Many of their students are essential workers and others lost their jobs without access to unemployment benefits. Things were happening at a rate where they were not able to take everything in and understand this impact, particularly those with language barriers and those with limited technology ability, technology skills.

Wisconsin's Safer at Home order in Plain Language