Past Funded Projects

The primary goal of this project is to assist in the delivery of improved health information to the residents of Martha's Vineyard, focusing primarily on 89 and their caregivers. The project will provide funding to purchase and program a portable health information kiosk to be located primarily in the West Tisbury Library. This kiosk will be transported off site for programs provided at Island Senior Centers, other Island libraries and other program sites.

Team Maureen has been educating a wide variety of audiences about the connection between HPV and cancer since our inception. Although our primary focus has always been cervical cancer, we have broadened our efforts over recent years to include head and neck cancers, as they are all tied to the HPV virus. Our educational programming has simpler components geared to the lay person or high school student, or can be more medically specific, as would be appropriate for dental professionals.

Outreach is an integral part of The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library and this area of service is overseen by Judith A. Wiener, MA, MLIS, Assistant Director for Collections and Outreach. Several programs and activities are planned throughout the year in order to connect the public with needed reliable health information resources. Attention is also paid to help support professionals in providing such information to their clients, patients, and customers.

The Healthy Pet Project HPP is a wonderful opportunity to educate our community participants in the skills needed to promote healthier lifestyles for their pets, themselves, and in the differences and similarities between pet and human health concerns. Most of our workshop participants are not aware of MedlinePlus for humans let alone its pet health section. Since MedlinePlus provides easy to use, reliable information in both areas, MedlinePlus information and training will be incorporated into the program.

Interactive elements within exhibits and classes enhance the engagement and learning of the participants. This proposed technology enhancement award will increase the interactive capability of the University of Oklahoma OU-Tulsa Schusterman Library's digital gallery by adding two digital touchscreens for use in exhibit displays and teaching.

The need for healthcare professionals to recognize low health literacy patients and to communicate with them effectively has been well recognized and widely reported. 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. We offer a comprehensive educational program that prepares our graduates to enter residencies throughout the country and to become licensed physicians in the 50 states and District of Columbia.

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso TTUHSCEP Libraries proposes to deliver outreach services to health care professionals and the 125 in the El Paso area by means of classes, booths at health fairs, and site visits. All outreach activities will be taking place in the predominantly Hispanic/Latino El Paso area.

It's a Girl Thing is a cardiovascular education workshop geared toward junior and cadet girl scouts 9-14 years old. The workshop promotes heart health lessons/topics to the girls and their chaperones through individual workshops. With the increasing awareness of obesity and diabetes in the world today, 86 need to be taught this information starting at a young age. To accomplish this we plan on providing workshops that focus on eating healthy, exercising, and self esteem.

Algonquin Regional High School has a HOSA Health Occupation Students of America club going into it's 4th year. We have attended the State Leadership Conference at UMass Medical Center for 3 years and will attend this year on Saturday, April 8, 2017. We are applying for this $5000 grant in order to educate the 35 members of our ARHS HOSA chapter and to facilitate their outreach programs for the school and community. Our education and outreach programs would focus on health-related careers and topics.

The goal of this project is to improve middle and high school students' ability to locate and evaluate health information, including online resources using iPads within Hertford County Public Schools.

1. Saratoga Elementary School Library staff will provide training to Saratoga Middle/High School Librarian in the use of National Library of Medicine health resources for consumers during the fall semester. 2. Provide health information literacy instruction for K-6 students once during fall semester, and once during spring semester. 3. Provide health information literacy instruction for 9th graders once during spring semester. 4. Provide health information literacy instruction for parents at at least one PTO meeting.

Attend the SLA Pharmeceutical & Health Tech Spring Meeting

1. Organize existing donor, volunteer, and constituent data so that it may be used to support the effectiveness of the program and allow for increased funding to serve clients now and in the future. 2. Outreach to current MNB members, over 14,000 nationwide, to provide services, direction and support regarding treatment and recovery options and assistance, and specifically in Southeastern Massachusetts determine what services are provided efficiently and/or lacking via a survey of supporters of a person with a SUD and those seeking these services.

Attend the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit

This health information outreach funding proposal is to obtain stateoftheart technology in both the library and health classroom at the Page Hilltop Elementary School in Ayer, MA. Page Hilltop, one of two elementary schools in the Ayer Shirley Regional School District ASRSD, serves students prek through fifth grade, totalling approximately 560 students. This proposal is requesting two interactive projectors and laptops for use in both the health classroom and library. Interactive projectors transform existing dry erase whiteboards or plain walls into interactive workspaces.

Attend the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

Attend an online Negotiation Skills for Librarians

Health education is taught at all school grade levels in the Caddo Parish School System CPSS. Librarians from the Health Sciences Library at LSU Health Shreveport LSUHS will work with the Caddo Science Department's K-6 and 6-12 Curriculum Instructional Specialists CIS and the Supervisor of Libraries of Caddo Parish Schools to bring awareness and encourage the use of gamification and game-based learning health and sciences resources linked from the NLM databases.

This initiative involves high school 89 interviewing 89 at retirement homes. What legacy do the elders hope to leave behind? What stories do they fondly remember? What foods became their favorites? What connections in these stories are there to our ancestors and early inhabitants of the Cape? How does medicine today compare to the medicines of old that perhaps grew in the fields and marshes along the Cape?

Residents of Coconino County, because it is the second largest county by area in the United States with many 95 populations that lack access to easily attainable medical care, face many challenges regarding health and wellness and resources for information about health and wellness. Some communities are more than 100 miles from a library and/or a health care facility. The Public Health Services District for Coconino County sees significant rates of injury, death from injury, diabetes, communicable diseases, poor oral hygiene, tobacco use, and poor nutrition.

Dahlgren Memorial Library DML, the Graduate Health & Life Sciences Research Library at Georgetown University Medical Center provides library and information services to faculty, staff and students at the the Georgetown University School of Medicine SOM as well as the clinicians and staff at the MedStar Georgetown University Medical Center MGUH. DML has partnered with Mary's Center http://www.maryscenter.org/, a community health clinic in the Washington, DC area.

88 Understanding Blood Pressure and Stress Reduction Lifestyle Techniques of Exercise and Physical Activities provides health and wellness promotion to underserved populations of men and 92 living in Pittsburgh's Northside, Clairton and Monessen areas. Information on the nature of blood pressure, how blood pressure is measured and the importance of blood pressure numbers, screenings for blood pressure, present lifestyle measures, exercise and physical activity, computer education and NLM resources will be the focus of this award.

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center TTUHSC Libraries propose to increase awareness of reliable consumer health information in English and Spanish from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health among caregivers in Midland County and Hispanic Americans in Reeves County in West Texas by partnering with the Area Agency on Aging of the Permian Basin, Midland College and Reeves County Hospital District.

Exhibiting and outreach throughout Illinois via University of Illinois at Chicago library sites. *Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture NLM Traveling Exhibit Peoria is an excellent venue for this exhibit since the 101 community has Peoria-based support and/or service groups serving the 15 counties in Region 2 as defined by Illinois HIV Care Connect, funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health IDPH.

This project will primarily target pregnant and breastfeeding African American 92 who participate in the Durham's Central City Baby Caf, including the staff. The secondary target population is partners and relatives of the participating mothers. The 92 and their supporters attend the Baby Caf primarily to learn about breastfeeding. The project will include an interactive activity to educate participants about MedlinePlus and LactMed.

Wayne Memorial Hospital WMH conducts monthly community health education outreach programs called 'LIVE WELL.' Examples of topics include: breast cancer awareness, 87 and sports injuries, lower back pain, and breastfeeding and postnatal pediatric care. The purpose of this application is for the hospital library to secure audiovisual equipment that will allow the hospital to improve monthly community education outreach programs.

The primary purpose of the 'Solving the Unsolvable' online discussion and symposium event is to bring together key stakeholders located or affiliated with southeastern Massachusetts involved in the current opioid epidemic to identify in-school needs and possible solutions to the prevention and treatment to addiction in adolescents and young 88.

From its infancy in 2013, the Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library's Health Information Specialists Program has grown substantially. The current proposal, as the title suggests, focuses on extending the early efforts of the Health Information Specialists Program, moving toward the creation of a sustained and thriving community of practice. With this purpose in mind, the current proposal reflects further expansion of the program, targeting individuals working public libraries, tribal libraries, and literacy initiatives.

This project will connect public libraries in the 95 Delta region of Arkansas with the necessary technologies and resources to provide consumer health information to their patrons. This project will increase awareness of authoritative health and science resources from the National Library of Medicine for the Delta region, which consists of Chicot, Crittenden, Desha, Lee, Monroe, Phillips, and St. Francis counties of Arkansas. It will include a needs assessment to elucidate the health information needs of public libraries and the public in this region of Arkansas.

Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 is a state-wide educational program focused on improving oral health care for 86 by providing education to primary care providers, facilitating medical-dental partnerships and enhancing oral health literacy for the community. In 2015, Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 developed a new health literacy resource - the Oral Health Story Kits - in partnership with Reading Public Library with the primary goal of providing basic oral health education to libraries which would help encourage good oral health habits for 86 and families in the their community.