On-Demand: Rewriting the Narrative: Building the Bench to Strengthen Health Literacy and Address Disparities

This session presents a practical, multistage Bench-to-Systems Health Literacy Framework grounded in Kansas’s State Health Assessment and Healthy Kansans 2030 priorities. The framework spans workforce and systems change, including collaborative learning communities, health literacy and CLAS policy adoption, interactive training, employee translation funding pilots, on-demand interpreter services, and language assistance tools such as scripts and “I Speak” cards. Participants will learn how community health workers, statewide health literacy surveys, and an in-house medical interpreter pipeline were integrated to strengthen organizational health literacy.


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IHA Health Literacy Conference
2026
Organizational Systems and Policies
Language, Culture & Diversity
Community Engagement
Topic
Audience
Public Health Professionals, Organizational Leaders and Administrators, Language-Access Professionals
Setting
Public Health Departments and Agencies, Government and Policy Settings
Level
Applied