Past Funded Projects

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter Harrisburg is a program in partnership with The Dauphin County Library System that is designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health Foundation BGHF has already hosted a very successful in-person iteration of Minds Matter in Harrrisburg, PA with the support of the Dauphin County Library System, and we have Minds Matter - NOLA scheduled to take place October 10th, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter Houston is a program in partnership with community libraries that are designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Houston DMA area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic; a lack of certainty about the end or extension of quarantining, social distancing requirements, and civil unrest; offering digital mental health literacy couldnt be timelier and more crucial.

The Worcester Public Library WPL seeks to educate adult patrons on food choices for healthy living. The Worcester area has a high rate of nutritionally underserved residents who suffer from medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. This grant would offer nutrition education and healthy cooking classes to WPL patrons, including 89, those affected by homelessness, and low-income residents, to provide them with tools to learn how to plan, manage, select, and prepare healthy food.

The Library will offer a series of weekly online movement classes for 88 that emphasize the role of the brain in improving balance and strength. Theseclasses will incorporate principles from the Feldenkrais Method of Awareness through Movement, an established form of neuromuscular reeducation that utilizes the brains ability to form new neural pathways at any age.

This project is designed to fuse information available on a wide range of health and daily living topics found in MedlinePlus https://medlineplus.gov/all_healthtopics.html with 21st century technology skills that often are lacking in older aged 65 years. Through the creation of relevant and approachable topic e.g.

Helping Empower Adolescents Learning Through Health HEALTH Info aims to provide local high school students with the knowledge and skills necessary to empower others within their school and community to address health disparities. High school students from underrepresented populations going into their junior or senior year will be recruited from public and charter high schools across Philadelphia. This program will utilize the Project SHARE curriculum, which was developed by the University of Maryland.

In North Carolina, residents of both 98 and 95 areas live in underserved communities with limited access to medical care and information, healthy food retail, and other resources that make individuals healthy and communities vital. To compound these issues, there is limited access to broadband in many of our 95 areas.

The mission of Jackson County Library Services is to connect everyone to information, ideas, and each other. To support our mission and that of NNLM, JCLS will present two health literacy programs; one in English for general audiences, and one in Spanish for the 7.9% of Jackson County households who speak Spanish. A panel of bilingual health care and library professionals will speak on the topics of COVID-19, locating quality health information online, talking to your doctor, and understanding your prescription.

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

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

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

The Archives and Special Collections Archives department of the University of California, San Francisco UCSF Library, seeks a support from the NNLM to digitize approximately 43,000-45,000 pages from 15 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the Internet. This new digital collection will address the gaps that exist in relation to materials chronicling the experience and struggles of communities of color and marginalized communities in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

This project has been designed by the Community Faces of Utah CFU, a collaborative group established in 2009.

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

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

For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA will teach and/or improve peoples computer skills in accessing high quality web-based health information and simultaneously improve their understanding of health literacy and the importance for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We will delegate full attention to training as many people as possible doing the period of this contract which is from January 2021 to April 31 2021. PIA is introducing this project as community level health literacy training.

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

Mothers Matter is Black Girl Health Foundations newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child mortality, parenting, mental and holistic health, marriage and relationships, leadership, and navigating the workforce. Mothers Matter is presenting a pilot titled The Superwoman Project, which is designed to help 92 of color cope with the needs and challenges of mothering in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Black Girl Health Foundations BGH Connect is a digital campaign that includes upgrading the Black Girl Health BGH Membership Portal to include new content, and a social media marketing campaign designed to attract two hundred 200 new 92 in Designated Market Areas DMAs and 98 cores with high populations of African Americans; these shall encompass metropolitan Delaware Wilmington and Dover, New Jersey East Orange, Newark, and Trenton, New York Hempstead, New York, and Mount Vernon, and Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Capitol Region Harrisburg.

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter D.C. is a program in partnership with the Washington, D.C. Public Library System designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area collectively known as DMV and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health BGH has already hosted a very successful iteration of Minds Matter in Harrrisburg, PA with the support of the Dauphin County Library System, and we have Minds Matter - NOLA scheduled to take place October 10th, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Superwoman Project is Black Girl Health Foundations BGHF newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child mortality, parenting, mental and holistic health, marriage and relationships, leadership, and navigating the workforce. In 2020, The Superwoman Project was developed as a pilot which was launched in Houston, TXa city that has struggled badly with mitigating its Coronavirus cases.

A health 12 will be hired by NOLA to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the New Orleans Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the NOLA Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

A health 12 will be hired by ABQ to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the Albuquerque Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the ABQ Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

The Black Girl Health Foundations College Ambassador Program is on a mission to heal and empower 92 of color from low-income communities. African American 92 endure an immense amount of mental and emotional stresses that include racism, sexism, poverty, and pressure to embody the archetype of the Strong Black Woman. We are continuing our successful mental health campaign called Minds Matter by launching Minds Matter NOLA. The foundation of Minds Matter is built upon creating healthy minds by increasing mental health literacy and education.

The goal of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving individual's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. As one of eight regional medical libraries in the country, NN/LM MAR will coordinate the operation of a Network of libraries and other organizations to carry out regional and national programs to meet the NN/LM mission.

According to the American Lung Association's 2019 "State of the Air" report, Pittsburghs air quality was ranked the 7th worst in the country. Poor air quality threatens the health of Southwestern Pennsylvanians, especially vulnerable populations, such as older 88 and those living with infectious lung diseases. This project proposes to give residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania accurate, timely, and useful information and guidance on how they can protect themselves and their families.

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/NNLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

The Ridgewood Public Library in partnership with the Stigma-Free Ridgewood committee has been working tirelessly during the Covid-19 Pandemic to provide 88tal Health resources and educational programs to the Ridgewood community with the goal of helping to ease isolation and anxiety associated with the pandemic, particularly in our more vulnerable populations.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center 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.