Past Funded Projects

No dying person should have to endure more suffering than he or she is willing to bear. However, many people die protracted deaths often in ways inconsistent with their wishes. Too many people also receive levels of care and treatment at the end of their lives that they do not want or would not want if they were fully informed of their treatment options. Patients often have bad deaths because they were not provided with palliative care or informed about hospice. Additionally, demographic differences play a role in end of life care and there are pronounced health disparities.

Congratulations to Julie Abbott! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Buffy Blunck! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Cynthia Cox! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

Congratulations to Trudy Pecorelli! She will be joining HOSA Students and Advisers in attending MCMLA in Omaha, NE.

The Mother Goose on the LooseGoslings program Goslings was developed to address the need for early language and literacy intervention for medically complex infants and the need for additional parental support in the neonatal intensive care unit NICU.1 The program has two primary goals: 1 provide parents with the knowledge, skills and tools to promote early language and literacy through talking, reading, singing and reciting nursery rhymes to their infants; and 2 emphasize the bidirectionality of parentinfant communication by informing parents how to interpret and sensitively respond to infa

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center- Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library will provide program support and training to SCR partners IHIP Partners and ABQ & NOLA Health 12s and public library staff. Services offered will include training SCR partners on health information courses designed for public library staff and patrons, promoting the CHIS certification program, collaborating with SCR partners on health program ideas, and assisting SCR partners with public library meetings/ in-service training.

Libraries Without Borders is being funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Pacific Southwest Region for $19,723 to develop phase 1 of the Wash & Learn Initiative-Health WALI-Health National Model. This project will create a national model to guide the Libraries Without Borders WALI-Health program, which delivers library services and programs in laundromats.

The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center- Shreveport Libraries will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

THRIVE empowers communities by creating spaces that welcome and support our neighbors transitioning from incarceration. In pursuit of this mission, THRIVE seeks to empower 88 returning from incarceration, and to revolutionize the role community members play in their lives upon reentry. Our goals are to disrupt cycles of incarceration, isolation, and social harm among returning citizens and within impacted communities through Restorative Reentry, Community Building, and Constituent Leadership initiatives.

The Critical Path Learning Center CPLC at Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers will design a series of 10 health and wellness workshops called Chronic Disease Management 10 CDM10: Maximizing Your Health in the Digital Age that will leverage NLM online resources and mobile applications to support those who are living with chronic diseases.

This award is intended to help public libraries support the health information needs of their communities by providing funding for health-related program kits. Program kits should be comprised of health information and can be used for circulation purposes or in direct support of health programs.

The Healthy Living and Learning Center HLLC at the Petersburg Public Library provides a consistent and familiar place where community members go to obtain accurate and reliable health information and connect to available local resources. The majority of Petersburg residents live more than a mile away from a grocery store where fresh produce is available. The proposed healthy grocery shopping and education project aimed at under-served Senior citizens over the age of 65 is a community/grassroots effort that fills an existing void in the city of Petersburg and adjacent areas.

Library Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network is seeking support for the direct costs of a National Library of Medicine exhibit, Every Necessary Care & Attention: George Washington & Medicine. Support is needed to maximize the event for both the 125 and the health care community.

Health Careers Awareness Workshops developed by the Southcentral Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center SC PA AHEC will be open to the public, targeting high school students who have an interest in the health care field. Participants will be offered three Saturday workshops from 10 AM- 3 PM at the Cambria County Public Library in Johnstown, PA and another three Saturday workshop segments at the Cambria County Public Library in Patton, PA. This will allow participants from both the Johnstown City and surrounding areas, and the northern part of the county to attend.

The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria UIC LHSP, the Western Illinois Universitys School of Nursing WIU SON, and public libraries in Fulton County. In this project, librarians, nursing professors, and nursing students will work with public libraries to provide health fairs for the public.

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine WVSOM James R. Stookey Library, and the WVSOM Center for 95 and Community Health CRCH, are collaborating to provide health information to the public at libraries in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Greenbrier County is a 95 county in West Virginia with 35,287 population, according to the United States Census Bureau in 2017. Greenbrier County is the second largest county in West Virginia, with 1,021 square miles. Within Greenbrier County there are six public libraries, all serve 95 populations.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Morris County Area Public Libraries are hosting the first annual Northern New Jersey Autism and Special Needs Fair, open to the public and targeting families with special needs with an emphasis on autism. The main goal of the event is to help special needs families find and connect with various organizations that provide much needed education, resources, services, and information. Each year we plan to provide sensory story times and activities for the participants while their parents or guardians speak with the attending organizations.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

An NNLM Community Engagement grant would support the delivery of Data Navigators 2.0, a high-impact data analytics and visualization course contextualized for healthcare careers and applications and be offered to Providence 87 through our partnership with the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

This award is intended to help public libraries support the health information needs of their communities by providing funding for health-related program kits. Program kits should be comprised of health information and can be used for circulation purposes or in direct support of health programs.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program CDSMP is a low-cost evidence based intervention developed by Dr. Kate Lorig through the Stanford University School of Medicine. People with different chronic health problems attend together in a patient-centered environment. The program promotes self-efficacy and education through interactive peer-support.

The Wayne State University, Vera P. Shiffman Medical Library Shiffman recognizes a significant opportunity in partnering with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM and the NIH Research Program to provide increased and improved access to health related information and services to residents of the Detroit Metro area primarily engaging communities identified as Underrepresented in Biomedical Research UBR by NIH. In order to maximize that opportunity, Shiffman will use grant funding to 1 hire a 50% FTE library assistant, a.k.a.

The Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative OHAI is a program of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Geriatric Medicine. With five Centers of Healthy Aging across the state of Oklahoma, OHAI educates older Oklahomans, Caregivers and Providers in all 77 counties. The Northeast Center of Healthy Aging NE CHA based in Tulsa and was the first of the OHAI centers to open in 2012.