Past Funded Projects

The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program EPIGRAM will enable schoolage students to access health information and resources to learn about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to engage with others during challenging times. Resources will be collected into a resource portal, with an underlying database structure using a detailed metadata schema where visitors can filter and query for videos based on audience, age-level, and topic.

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.

As 126s, we know that health literacy is a shared responsibility between us, the patient and the patients family. Yet, we struggle to address the issue in a way that empowers our young patients and their caregivers, particularly minorities and the underserved. We want to change that by providing specific, high-risk families with a resource that will empower them to provide the best care to their 86. Cook 86s Medical Center currently has several initiatives that focus on identifying and assisting underserved families who are known to be repeat users of the Emergency Department.

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust will continue to help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify, and use reliable health information on the internet. With todays focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there is a digital divide for many individuals with low health literacy and represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

The FLX Kids are Alright initiative aims to improve mental health literacy for middle- and high-school aged youth in five counties in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Through a unique partnership between Common Ground Health, the Rochester Public Library, Pioneer Library System and the Rochester Regional Library Council, the initiative will directly engage youth in the creation of new mental health and well-being literacy resources to improve library collections and programming.

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting underserved and underrepresented minority communities, highlighting the public health effects of deeply-rooted institutional distrust. This campaign provides easily accessible, culturally appropriate information to vulnerable populations through a multimedia campaign conducted through means compatible with social distancing guidelines.

Pa ForwardR was founded in 2012 on the fundamental belief that health literacy among four other literacies is critical for parents, caregivers, 86, 87, 88 and 89 to participate in a twenty first century society. Many parents do not know how to find reliable information to help them to navigate a healthcare system or when to become concerned about their 86's health.

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.

Building on two successful years of food literacy programs in partnership with public libraries and other community organizations statewide, the South Carolina State Library would like to expand outreach to small 95 communities by using local trusted health partners and small transportable kitchen kits to demonstrate healthy cooking and living strategies for people of all ages.

Cmo dar un P.A.S.O. hacia el Bienestar Emocional! How to Take a Step toward Emotional Wellness is a health literacy outreach intervention designed to improve emotional wellness knowledge and related communications skills among Hispanic 88. This work builds on a previous support from the NNLM SCR to develop the M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness guide in English and adapt it into Spanish.

Innovate to Communicate: Health Literacy Workforce Development aims to educate frontline clinicians and hospital leaders in the knowledge and application of health literacy practices. By equipping clinicians and leaders with the tools and resources they need to take action, Innovate to Communicate will promote the health literate organization in North Texas hospitals.

The primary goal of the project is to improve the quality of life and health for citizens of Alaska by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce, especially in 95 areas, over a five-year period from May 2016 through April 2021. Additionally, Alaska Medical Library AML at University of Alaska Anchorage hopes to expand outreach to include public schools and public libraries to teach and promote health literacy in the communities we visit.

The rise of the COVID-19 pandemic called for individuals to seek out and apply health information at a rapid pace. The sheer amount of available information proved to be overwhelming, and the complexity, contradictory, and sometimes misinformation made an already difficult situation even more devastating. Historically, public libraries have been known for being community-centered institutions providingequitableaccess to informationandresources.

The Central PA FUN Food: Understanding Nutrition Initiative will be focused on improving health literacy around food & nutrition in six counties in central Pennsylvania. Based on a partnership between the District Library Centers in Altoona and Johnstown, this project would serve residents of Indiana, Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford & Huntingdon Counties. The Initiative has two main areas of focus: improving access to quality cooking & nutrition information & resources; and increasing family nutrition literacy.