Past Funded Projects

The PRCC, in collaboration with health and human community-based organizations, faith-based groups, and AoU partners, including the IL Precision Medicine Consortium and NNLM, proposes to develop and implement culturally, linguistically- and health literacy-appropriate community outreach and education programs targeting Latino families, the elderly, 91, the disability community, and other vulnerable populations.

Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Hancock County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Library of Medicine NLM resources. A primary focus of our work will be to increase health literacy for the 125 through partnerships with public libraries, including recruiting local librarians to provide community workshops and one-on-one tutorials to increase knowledge and use of NLM online resources.

Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Washington County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Library of Medicine NLM resources. A primary focus of our work will be to increase health literacy for the 125 through partnerships with public libraries, including recruiting local librarians to provide community workshops and one-on-one tutorials to increase knowledge and use of NLM online resources.

The Kadlec Community Resource Desk KCRD assists individuals and families who are in need of support to get connected to resources in their community, specifically as it relates to Social Determinants of Health. This free and confidential service is open to everyone. There will be two Kadlec Community Resource Desks, the primary desk will be located within the Kadlec Neurological Resource Center KNRC Library within the Kadlec Healthplex. When hospital visitor restrictions are lifted due to COVID19, we will add a second KCRD location at Kadlec Hospital.

Through various partnerships with local libraries and national organizations, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services IMLS and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, Libraries Without Borders LWB has rapidly scaled its Wash and Learn Initiative WALI, which delivers library services and programs in laundromats.

Health Resources in Action HRiA seeks funding to support violence prevention in Greater Boston through youth peer leadership. We aim to train up to ten high school aged youth peer leaders in violence prevention and how to find information to support the prevention and response to violence using HRiAs Peer Leadership Preventing Violence Curriculum and using resources from the National Library of Medicine such as MedlinePlus.

The AMAR Community-Based Doula Program is a program of The 86s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey. AMAR is grounded in the HealthConnect One HC1 evidence-based community doula curriculum and advised by a team of New Jersey medical providers. AMAR offers at least four prenatal visits and four postpartum visits for each mother enrolled in the program. The AMAR program serves 75 pregnant and postpartum 92, doulas and doula trainees per year.

Taking Effective Action, Incorporated TEA is applying for the Health Information Outreach Award grant to advance and support equal access to biomedical information and improve individual access to information on the Research Program among minority and underserved faith-based populations in parts of the Southeastern /Atlantic Region SEA; Washington, District of Columbia DC, Maryland; Virginia, and North Carolina. TEA will produce a podcast series, a web resource page, and a blog series on precision medicine MedlinePlus and an research program overview, PubMed.

Project Health-Info-Equity will provide AHEC Scholar learning activities and take-away outreach consumer health materials to help them understand what is health information literacy. This will provide them with skills they can use to educate their current and future primary care patients about simple and consistent ways that online information can be assessed for accuracy, potential biases, and intention.

Telehealth is rapidly emerging as the standard of care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth not only offers a safer alternative to in-person services for both patients and providers, but also reduces barrier to access of appropriate medical, behavioral health, and health education services, particularly in low income, 95 areas. Many of the youth in the communities served by WCCHC cannot sufficiently access telehealth services for a variety of reasons.

Human papillomavirus HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the USA. Over 90% of cervical and anal cancers and 75% of oropharyngeal cancer are caused by persistent HPV infection. These infections, and the resultant cancers, can be prevented with vaccination. However, the islands of Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket lag far behind the Massachusetts average in their HPV vaccination rates.

This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Office of Statewide Initiatives, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine. The overarching aim of this proposal, Expanding Health Information Services in a 95 Telehealth Outreach Program, is to make clinically important patient care information presented in teleheath videoclinics more widely accessible and to improve the ability of participating clinicians to engage with the archived content.

The goal of the " Healthcare & APEX Partners Care HAP Care: Improving Access to Health Information for Minority Citizens who Lack Access to Library and Digital Services" program is to improve public health in the Sweet Auburn District by increasing community members' access to information, aimed at enabling them to make more informed decisions about their health, especially where it relates to pandemics and chronic illnesses that plague minority and economically disadvantaged citizens.

To provide a safe and fun environment for 86 and 88, individuals and families to learn about healthy options for food and cooking. We believe that the Charlotte Library is an ideal space for a flexible, mobile kitchen set-up, using the equipment supplies and training materials from the Charlie Cart Project. The Charlie Cart Project provides a unique and scalable educational program that enables hands-on learning about food, nutrition, and health in any setting.

The Greenburgh Public Library will partner with community organizations and stakeholders, including Research member organizations to increase mental health literacy with the goal of improving community awareness of the continuum of mental health and the relationship to other components of overall wellness, reduce stigma, improve information/resource access and foster connection, resilience and help seeking behaviors in the Greenburgh and greater Westchester communities.

Surviving COVID-19, In A Virtual World. Our plans are to educate, train and inform as many Community members on how to protect themselves from contracting and spreading the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Global Pandemic Virus by providing programs that will increase access and awareness on how to use the Internet/Computer and other technological devices to find online reliable COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 health information using CDC Guidelines, NIH, NNLM and MedlinePlus.gov website while practicing social distancing.

Southern Alabama Area Health Education Center SAAHEC strives to grow the next generation of medical professionals to serve the people of Alabama, train health profession students and provide health information and education to the communities in our 10 counties. The Health Information and Career Awareness Program HICAP contributes to the mission of National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM by improving our communities access and awareness of health information and enabling them to make informed decisions about their health.

The Virtual Nutrition and Food Literacy Program will address the health information needs of the communities serviced by the Miami-Dade Public Library System by offering two portable kitchen carts that will be used for creating culturally relevant virtual cooking and culinary demonstration events. The acquisition of the kitchen carts will also allow for in-person events post-Covid, expanding the library's repertoire of programming to include more food and nutrition literacy that addresses the communitys health and wellness.

CT-NAHN aims to improve the capacity of under-served adolescents and 87 to locate and integrate reliable health information so they can make informed health decisions. The overall goal of the proposed project is to work with youth in Fairfield, New Haven and Hartford counties in CT. and enhance their access to local and national health information resources. We also want to improve the capacity of their teachers to incorporate health information resources and health literacy best practices into their classrooms.

MHC is a health advocacy organization founded one hundred years ago in response to the deadly tuberculosis epidemic. Since 1920, MHC has advocated for and educated Massachusetts residents on all matters of prevention, including the critical role vaccinations play in ensuring public health. The COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020 has caused over a half million deaths and billions of dollars in lost economic activity. The disease impacts poor communities and communities of color disproportionately as this population is more likely to work in essential roles, and unable to stay safe at home.

The Massachusetts Health Council MHC is launching a statewide vaccine education and equity program to inform communities of color about the history, safety, and efficacy of vaccines. MHC is a health advocacy organization founded one hundred years ago in response to the deadly tuberculosis epidemic. Since 1920, MHC has advocated for and educated Massachusetts residents on all matters of prevention, including the critical role vaccinations play in ensuring public health.

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted emotional wellness in many ways. A team of health 12s and plain language writers seek to address emotional wellness needs exacerbated by COVID-19 by adapting, developing, and promoting accessible authoritative consumer health resources. The team will adapt the English language How to M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness print booklet into an interactive, web-based tutorial to provide an ongoing source of emotional wellness learning and support and link learners to additional topical NLM/NIH/CDC resources.

The Orlando Health Literacy Ambassador will include: Train-the-Trainer projects using NLM resources that enhance the skills of public library/organization staff and other consumer health information intermediaries to train a target population on locating and evaluating health information within Orlando and surrounding communities.

The University of Washington UW Health Sciences Library will partner with the UW Center for One Health Research to provide COVID-19 health information outreach to marginalized communities focused on caring for pets and companion animals during the global pandemic. Outreach initiatives will focus on two underserved populations: homeless and non-English speaking communities. Research has shown that pets in households of COVID patients may become infected with SARS CoV2.

Brooklyn Public Library BPL will develop and implement a year-long project of expert-led health information programs targeted to vulnerable populations with identified health challenges. Addressing known social determinants of health specific to Brooklyns varied communities, the programs will address the topic areas of: 88tal Health, 102, Health Insurance and Access to Care Navigation, Nutrition, and Positive Aging.

Unidos en Nuestra Salud is an initiative that aims to provide health education, health literacy and health information skills to the Spanish speaking community including but not limited to health information intermediaries, librarians, community health workers, 131s and community members that speak Spanish and are medically underserved populations.

Amish settlements can be found in 31 states in the US, and Ohio is home to two of the worlds largest communities. Many communities follow a collectivistic lifestyle where faith and community are prioritized over self, and technology is often limited due to its intrusion on family life and values. Outbreaks of COVID-19 have been observed in locations where Amish communities reside, and results of a current survey of Amish community members noted a lack of access to health information and misinformation about the COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic.

MUSC Libraries will coordinate and host the first Health Literacy Summit in the SouthEast Region. The project will also enhance and expand the health literacy course to include an inter-professional collaborative seminar each semester.

The Fraser Resource Center and Health Sciences Library project plan is to use mobile technology to bring health literacy awareness to the community of Hall County. The goal of this project is to promote health literacy resources and Research Program with the aid of mobile tablets. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase mobile devices tablets enabling medical librarians to further engage with the Northeast Georgia Health System NGHS community through specific outreach initiatives with the Hall County Public Library System.

We believe the public library can offer more than research-based learning and recreation such as books, movies, music; it can offer emotional and psychological learning, acceptance and mindfulness. Working with several local partners, our library will engage our families in a waide variety of health programming, and integrate health information into our services. To supplement these programs, we will direct patrons towards KidsHealth.org, GirlsHealth.gov, Healthy86.org, and other trusted resources.