On-Demand: Moving the Needle on Organizational Health Literacy: 3 Adaptable Tools for Your Work

In this video, you will learn about 3 tools developed by Cook County Department of Public Health and Literacy Works to help organizations work towards organizational health literacy:

  1. Making the Case slide deck: this adaptable slide deck will help you make a case to your leadership on the importance of implementing health literacy practices at your organization. 

  2. Team Communication Agreements: this guide helps teams build consensus around communication expectations, reducing friction and improving communication and relationships.

  3. Organization Partner Profile: this template helps individuals, teams, and organizations to best communicate their partnership needs and build a strong foundation for potential partnerships.  

For each tool, we will explain why we made it, where to find it, and best practices for using it in your work.

Objectives:

  • Connect three tools to attributes of health literate organizations

  • Identify which tool(s) will help their organization work towards incorporating an organizational health literacy lens

  • Choose and adapt at least 1 tool to best meet their organization’s needs 


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IHA Health Literacy Conference
2026
Organizational Systems and Policies
Communication
Community Engagement
Topic
Audience
Public Health Professionals, Community-Based and Social Service Professionals, Organizational Leaders and Administrators
Setting
Public Health Departments and Agencies, Community-Based Organizations and Nonprofits, General / Multiple Settings
Level
Applied