Past Funded Projects

Morningcrest Health Library MHL is a consumer health information center located in the Schusterman Center Clinic. MHL provides free public access to NLM databases, supported by the services of a professional medical librarian. The goal of this project is to provide an easier means of navigating online resources by incorporating new touchscreen computers. This will allow individuals who are challenged by a lack of computer skills, or those with limited dexterity, to explore websites independently.

Our service area has four libraries, so we would identify about ten families and/or 89 in each location, if possible. Ten families and/or 89 at a time will meet and learn how to make a week's worth of crockpot meals that are easy, inexpensive, and nutritious. They will be taught how to budget and buy for a week's worth of meals and how to portion the food appropriately to provide necessary nutritional value. Classes will be held at local community buildings that have a full commercial kitchen facility.

Goal: 1 . Increase resources and knowledge of library patrons on health related issues. 2. Make healthy eating fun, tasty, and not intimidating. Objective: 1. Contract 3 health professionals and/or chefs knowledgeable on healthy eating to offer at least 2 classes to 88 and 1 to kids. 2. Each class will introduce and explain how to use the NLM databases to explore different health options. 3. Each health professional will bring their own supplies for their classes.

Goals: - Create awareness of mental health. - Provide health information resources on mental health. - Raise awareness of community resources for mental health. - Provide a positive atmosphere for families to bond and spend time together. Cedar City Library in the Park agrees to: 1. Take lead on art display highlighting works reinforcing theme of 'How do I remain resilient during hard times?' 2. Publish articles in local weekly newspaper on mental health awareness resources.

Low health literacy affects people of any age, income, race or background, and it puts an estimated 90 million Americans at risk. Whether it is interpreting instructions on a prescription bottle, deciphering pages of discharge instructions, completing a health history, or navigating the healthcare system, low health literacy predisposes patients to poor health outcomes and higher rates of preventable hospital admissions. At first glance, health literacy appears to be a problem that lies with the patient and is incumbent upon them to acquire the necessary skills.

The goal of our project is to host a course of classes entitled 'Adulting 101'. These classes will be once a month over a period of nine months. Our objective is to give 87 and young 88 successful skills to enter adulthood and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The topics that will be covered over the period of the course are emotional wellness, personal hygiene, healthy lifestyles i.e.- drugs, alcohol. sex.

This project is part of the Nurse Residency Program being implemented at UPMC Mercy through the Department of Nursing. The Nurse Residency Program is a new, mandatory, year-long program that all newly-hired graduate nurses will have to complete. The program consists of twelve, four-hour long sessions, which ultimately culminates in an evidence-based practice project.

This grant application is for funding to hire a clinical skills expert to develop a health literacy/patient communication module to be incorporated into a mandatory clinical skills review course for third-year students. Students will be brought back to campus from their rotation sites for this course. The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is a fully accredited four-year school of medicine leading to the granting of the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree DO. This is a continuation of funding received last year to integrate health literacy into the Osteopathic Medicine curriculum.

There are profound health inequalities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Exacerbating these health inequalities are barriers to quality health information for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. By linking farmworker youth and farmworker health outreach workers with NLM resources, this project seeks to improve access to health information. This project is a partnership between East Carolina University's Joyner Library and Student Action with Farmworkers SAF, non-profit farmworker advocacy organization founded in 1992.

SIMobile will enable the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, College of Nursing and Health Sciences CONHS implement the Augmented Reality Integrated Simulation Education ARISE Project. The goal is to strengthen simulation instruction by increasing student engagement and access to biomedical resources through technology.

Mount Saint Mary's University MSMU launched a comprehensive wellness movement, 'Mount Wellness,' in 2017 to help its community become, and remain, healthier. The MSMU library system will create a program affiliated with Mount Wellness that introduces MSMU students and staff to National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a focus on MedlinePlus.

Worcester Polytechnic seeks an NNLM NER Member Program Award to subsidize hosting of the 2017 ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow. This program would be made available to librarians throughout the New England region, including academic, health sciences, public, and hospital librarians. This helps meet the NNLM NER's mission to support the continuing education and training of health sciences and public librarians.

The Health and Human Services Librarian at the University of New Hampshire will conduct a questionnaire to identify cost-effective information resources and needed training to assist a target group of Strafford County's healthcare and mental health providers with the assessment and development of opioid addiction treatments and prevention programs.

The project proposed is a health information hub inside a regional Chicago Public Library currently undergoing extensive renovations in a disadvantaged community that suffers from a spate of health conditions. The library, one of only two regional libraries in the city is frequented by 25,000 patrons each month and the goal is to improve both community awareness and health literacy by making information more accessible and culturally relevant to a predominantly African-American community.

Exhibit at 95 Health providers in the state of Tennessee. This includes clinicians, nurses, 12s, and 133s relevant to 95 health in Tennessee. The estimated meeting attendance is 300-450.

Orlando Health Literacy will be the title of an ongoing health literacy campaign for the patients and families/caregivers of all Orlando Health hospitals and satellite facilities. There will be multiple areas covered within this project such as a library outreach where the consumer health librarian goes out on the treatment floors and within the satellite facilities to meet the patients and serve them in a one-on-one reference interaction assisting them in locating credible and timely health information.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain state of the art technology in the science and health/wellness classrooms grades K-4 at St. Joseph School. The school serves PK-grade 8 totaling 245 students. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase additional tablets for student use in grades K-4. Using tablets, students will be able to share and compare their work from multiple devices at the same time as a projector for all to see.

This grant will allow Lakeville Area Public School staff to work with Community Blueprint to form a youth action team, and develop an interactive and informative marijuana campaign. From the name and logo, to the tone and messaging, and to the in-school outreach activities, we'll include youth in the entire process of building a marijuana prevention campaign for Lakeville high school students.

Let's Talk Health LTH pilot project consists of a three-pronged approach designed to provide the following services: 1. LTH will provide health literacy instruction to existing ESL classes in the HOPE Literacy, Inc.'s sites, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center's UNTHSC Healthy Start and Building Bridges young mothers and refugee participants. 2.

With the continued aging of our population and the increase we see in senior centers being built in the area, Westchester Public Library plans a Community Connections with 89 program to engage discussion regarding Alzheimer's.

Connections4Health C4H is an innovative program of placing a 'social service help desk' in the waiting area of underserved medical centers to assist patients in their unmet needs during, and as part of, their medical visit. Volunteer college students are trained as 'Community Health Fellows' to work with patients while they are attending a medical appointment. These volunteers engage patients one-on-one to understand their unmet social service needs and create individualized action plans with referrals to relevant social service agencies.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer a nine month program July 2017- March 2018 for 90 high school girls enrolled in Eureka! Girls Inc.'s capstone STEM- science, technology, engineering, and math- program and 150 girls registered in Girls Inc.'safter school program. Girls Inc.'s multi-tiered Healthy Living Project aligns with NNLM's mission to broaden access to and awareness of health information resources, with an emphasis of using those resources provided by NLM. The project will complement and enhance Eureka! and Girls Inc. after school programs.

The prescription opioid awareness pilot program will enable high school students to access biomedical and health information, learn about the prevalence of this epidemic in their communities the health consequences, and steps need to reduce its impact especially on high school students. Offered as a collaborative effort, the program is an integrated in-class, student-centered, technology-driven, youth empowerment program.

Recipient will attend 2018 Western Forum for Migrant and Community Health, February 22-24, Seattle WA. Attendance will help meet the general WASCLA goal of building collaborations to overcome language barriers to healthcare services through increasing our knowledge base on current issues and programs, and offering us the opportunity to interact with others working in public and private sector programs which address community language access needs.

The Pitt-Bridge Health Science Clubs seeks support for underserved students in middle and high school of Steel Valley School District. The goal is for the students to learn how to acquire and share health literacy with peers and family. With trained mentors, each club will promote health literacy, built upon STREAM Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Arts and Mathematic foundational disciplines. The health themes have been locally identified and selected as being of school and community relevance.

New, easy to understand and use tools that are accessible to patients and providers can facilitate better health information seeking and address many barriers associated with low health literacy that result in increased cost and negative outcomes, especially for those patient populations that experience significant health disparities.

The UVA Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and University of Virginia Library Research Data Services + Sciences will collaborate to build a data catalog that facilitates access to open health data and an educational program that promotes data literacy, encompassing the FAIR Data Principles Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable. The NYU Data Catalog will be deployed and populated with records promoting access to open health data. The data catalog will be available to 133s at the University of Virginia and citizen scientist in the community.

Support Native peoples in northwestern Nevada greater Reno-Sparks area by providing instruction and promoting freely available health information resources, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM content.The primary goals are to increase awareness and provide support through in-person and online education for community members from grade 8 through 89. REMARKS: Katie Jefferson, Library Services Liaison and Library Faculty member, will assume overall leadership responsibility for this subaward.

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

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.