South Shore Community Partners in Prevention Health Literacy Award

SSCPP seeks to acknowledge the outstanding contributions made by a local individual or organization in the area of Health Literacy. As part of its Health Literacy Initiative, SSCPP has engaged with partners in the community to advance our goal of improving health outcomes through improvements in health literacy amongst consumers and providers. Many of our local partners are doing great work towards this goal as part of advancing their own missions.

We are seeking nominations to help us identify community members/organizations who are helping to improve health communications and removing barriers to health and who have had success in any of the following areas:

  1. development of a new program, services or supports to improve the health literacy of individuals in the SSCPP catchment area, as described below;
  1. increased awareness of the concepts of health literacy in the region;
  1. engaged the healthcare industry in the health literacy movement, especially local agencies and institutions;
  1. motivated health care professionals to explore health literacy and their role in improving it;
  1. provided outstanding support to the South Shore Health Literacy Initiative in achieving its goals;
  1. engaged special and vulnerable populations as partners in enhancing health communications.

Please use the back of this sheet to provide names of individuals and/or organizations who meet these criteria by October 31, 2017. Nominations can be e-mailed to .

NOMINATION FORM

Your Name (optional):______

Phone:______

EMAIL:______

I would like to nominate ______for the South Shore Community Partners in Prevention Health Literacy Award. I believe she/he/it is deserving of this award because (please provide examples of the nominee’s work in areas 1-6 on the front side of this sheet):

______

(You may add one additional sheet of paper to provide your justification.)

The nominee may be reached at:

PHONE ______

EMAIL ______

Thank you for your nomination!

Serving the communities of Carver, Duxbury, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Rockland

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