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This package consists of a facilitator's guide and three booklets that were developed to provide basic preventive health information for adults caring for young children and presents a story line with characters who become more self-confident in coping with children's health issues as they build their knowledge about preventive health. The stories, which are written at about a fourth-grade reading level, were reviewed by health and literacy educators and adult learners and pilot tested with adult participants in Even Start family literacy programs in Pennsylvania. The three stories, which revolve around a grandmother who is raising her granddaughter and two neighbors who are also raising children, deal with the following topics: communicating with children and helping them develop good communication skills; the concept of preventive health; and the importance of dental health and regular dentist visits. The facilitator's guide accompanying the three stories contains the following: explanations of several instructional techniques for building learners' literacy and thinking skills while imparting essential health information; suggestions for adapting the materials for different audiences, including adult beginning readers and nonnative speakers of English; discussion questions, transparency masters, and reproducible literacy activities; 50 recommended resources; and a glossary. (MN)

These two documents are products of a project to improve the capability of the Pennsylvania Regional Staff Development Centers to provide current, research-based workplace literacy training and technical assistance to adult basic and literacy education programs. The final report describes these project activities: development of training materials for participants to use in staff development activities; development of resource databases; provision and evaluation of two 5-hour train-the-trainer sessions; and technical assistance. Appendices composing over half the report contain the following: the needs assessment, participants' resource notebook materials, correspondence, project newsletter, meeting agendas, surveys, evaluations, and press release. The second document is a trainer's guide for anyone who provides training, information, or technical assistance to workplace literacy providers. An overview illustrates the need for workplace literacy programs. Section 2 addresses how and why providers must market their services to the business community and funding options to support programs. Section 3 discusses building and maintaining effective partnerships and tips for working with businesses and unions. Section 4 focuses on curriculum options, recruitment, learner assessment, and program evaluation. Sections 1-4 are divided into two or three topics. For each topic, these components are included: background reading, resource materials list, training ideas, suggested in-depth readings, overhead transparency masters, and worksheets. Section 5 is a glossary. Section 6 contains lists of newsletters, resource organizations, electronic resources, curriculum resources, resource persons and includes an extensive bibliography. (YLB)