As a literacy organization, we deeply understand the increased difficulties our students might face in accessing medical information. Limited health literacy can result in increased and lengthier hospital stays, delaying preventative medicine and services, difficulty managing chronic illnesses, and making medication errors. This is why we are absolutely thrilled to receive two grants that will help provide additional health literacy support for our students.
Literacy Volunteers is proud to announce a $10,000 grant from Sentara Health to support our health literacy initiatives. This grant enables LVCA to continue providing targeted health literacy curriculum and resources for both our tutors and students. We thank Sentara for supporting our work. Through their generosity, our students will continue to improve their lives!
We also want to thank The Manning Family Foundation for generously awarding Literacy Volunteers a $15,000 grant to help support our health literacy work. Every year, our students work not only on health literacy goals, but many also persue training in the medical field or plan to do so. Through the help of both of these grants, we can continue to support our students' needs.
