Posts by archive: October 2014

The OERC’s Appreciative Inquiry Project: Seeking Strength-Based Change

Posted by nnlmneo on October 31st, 2014 0 comments

  For the past couple of months, the OERC has engaged in an Appreciative Inquiry (AI) interview project to get feedback and advice from users on to our services. Appreciative Inquiry  was developed in the 1980s by David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva as an approach to bring “collaborative and strength-based change” to organizations. The methods… Read More »

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Elegantly Simple Evaluation: Talking to Health Care Providers about Patient Health Literacy

Posted by nnlmneo on October 9th, 2014 0 comments

By Yawar Ali and Cindy Olney As the child of a physician living in South Texas, I’ve witnessed a deficiency of health literacy in patients. I volunteered in my dad’s clinic over spring break. I also participated on a medical relief trip with my father to a nonprofit charitable hospital in Pakistan. At both places, I witnessed difficulty… Read More »

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