Past Funded Projects

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - School of Medicine Libraries will partner with the public libraries in the Rio Grande Valley counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy and Starr 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.

This project will focus on two 98 agencies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, whose primary clientele are 98 dwellers who are socioeconomically challenged and lack access to appropriate and understandable opioid information. The partner agencies are Center of Hope and South Dakota 98 Indian Health with whom Health Connect of South Dakota has strong, long collaborative relationships. The overarching goals of the project: 1 train partner agency staff on opioid use and misuse using educational materials from the National Library of Medicine and publications from national companies i.e.

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.

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

95 populations face unique challenges in meeting health and wellness goals including a lack of proximity to healthcare facilities, high chronic disease burden, and poverty. 95 residents are also less likely than metropolitan residents to participate in clinical research trials, which can widen the disparities in treatment and interventions that meet their needs.

Eat, Move & Live in Balance is an extension of Wellness for Everybody initiative. The goal of the program is to address the need for nutritional education and fitness engagement to help decrease the health disparities in the African American community. Specifically, among low income and single-family homes where families could most benefit from developing sustainable healthy eating habits through coaching, creating menus, supermarket tours and healthy cooking demos. In addition, consumers would be introduced to various fitness activities that are low or no cost.

Team Maureen, a nonprofit dedicated to ending cervical cancer by educating about the HPV-Cancer connection and the importance of prevention and early detection, in collaboration with Brigham and 92s Hospital have a long history of providing education across Massachusetts MA about Human Papillomavirus HPV. Our work has resulted in meeting unmet needs and gaps in educating underserved and at risk populations; and our projects have been replicated nationwide and published in several peer-reviewed journals. Our next undertaking involves educational outreach with 109 oral health providers.

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.

In the past several years Appalachian Regional Library public libraries of Ashe, Watauga, & Wilkes Counties, North Carolina has emphasized health & wellness topics in its programming. Last year, we implemented our 1st Good Neighbor Project, Cracked, Not Broken. This project combined community read activities & community engagement activities with the goal of educating people about suicide prevention & providing avenues of engagement for those interested in helping combat suicide & mental illness.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

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.

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.

Rutland Regional Medical Center RRMC is a 144 bed community hospital located in southern Vermont. It is one of two Magnet designated organizations in the state and employs over 500 registered nurses. Grant monies from the NNLM will promote nursing research and advance nursing practice through the support of programs including online webinars and live presentations about library resources.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The BRECS Project teaches minority residents, public library, and community center staff in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area the benefits of participating in biomedical research and how to access online health information from the National Library of Medicine via the following mechanisms: 1 learning sessions offered at partnering community organizations and/or churches, 2 hands-on training at community centers and public libraries, and 3 webinars.

Graphic medicine, or the overlap of comics and healthcare, has emerged over the past decade from a once small, sporadically discussed idea to a burgeoning field of study and subgenre in its own right. For librarians, the growth of the field - which includes a National Library of Medicine exhibit, "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!" - presents numerous opportunities, ranging from reinvigorating interest in physical collections to interactive programming.

Request to attend MACMLA Annual Conference- 2019 Rising to the Occasion. Applicant will be registering for the "Are All Systematic Reviews Created Equal?" continuing education course. This class will fortify their understanding of using checklists and related credible resources to critically appraise published systematic reviews, randomized controlled trials and other study methodologies.

The Charlotte Library & the Carpenter-Carse Library recently finished a very successful series as part of our first Supporting Healthy Communities from Head to Toe project. We seek funding to continue these efforts, based on demonstrated and expressed community need as well as increasing evidence of the use of libraries as places for public access to and conversations about health issues. In our community, mental health issues and climate change concerns have risen to the top as areas of interest and apprehension.

HAMA will be conducting a Massachusetts-Based Health Education tour from May 2019 August 2019. The objective of this project stems from the need for more culturally-specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Last year, HAMA conducted this project for the first time. Based off the success of the project and needs assessment obtained through surveying recipients of the educational sessions we have decided to repeat this project for continued impact within our Haitian community in the Massachusetts area.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

This project aims to increase the knowledge of suicide prevention and 101 and raise awareness and use of National Library of Medicine resources among Community Health Workers CHWs, students enrolled in Dona Ana Community College's CHW certificate program, and community members who will ultimately benefit.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.