Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Community Engagement Award: Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians

Fit & Lit: Health Literacy for 87 and Librarians, will teach 87 living in poverty and experiencing homelessness at Dishman Hills High School healthier lifestyle choices and stronger health literacy skills. Upon completion, students will demonstrate new proficiencies to improve their personal well-being and complete high quality biomedical and healthy living related research. Newly trained library staff will increase their abilities to provide a higher-quality service to library customers in need of health-related resources.

June 21, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Health Literacy Outreach Award: Healthy Pathways: programs, resources, and education for Multnomah Countys Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin communities

Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library MCL will plan, pilot, and evaluate six healthy lifestyle workshop series for 110 families in Multnomah County with a specific focus on Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese speaking populations. Our project will support these communities' health literacy needs by offering health lifestyle programs on nutrition and healthy cooking, fitness, which may include tai chi, qi gong, zumba, yoga, martial arts, and meditation and culturally relevant stress relief programs like karaoke and ping pong in their own language.

June 21, 2019 - September 30, 2020
Health Literacy Outreach Award: Pop-Up Library: Wellness Edition

The goal of the project is to is to reach 87 and their families with educational resources about health information literacy, and raise awareness of the Research Program joinallofus.org/nlm. The Pop-up Library: Wellness Edition will be offered to 95 communities with small towns in Northern Idaho that lack the resources and infrastructure to expose 87 and families to wellness resources, and skills to use them.

October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020
AoU 301 Healthy Canton 89 Project

The Healthy Canton 89 Project HCSP will strengthen the partnership between the Haywood County Public Library - Canton Branch and the Canton Senior Center. Working together, the partners will engage 89 in programming and services that assist 89 to live independent and healthy lives by focusing on three goals: increase health literacy, reduce food insecurity, and promote healthy eating.

May 1, 2019 - September 15, 2020
AoU 353: Facilitating 95 Access to Quality Health Information through Little Free Libraries

By partnering on a Little Free Libraries LFL initiative with Floridas Okeechobee County Library OCL, this project aims to improve 95 residents health literacy and understanding of precision medicine, through facilitating awareness of and access to NLMs consumer health resources and NIHs Research Program. This project supports NNLMs mission to improve public health by empowering underserved groups to make effective use of information for health decision-making. Little Free Library is an 94 nonprofit that fosters neighborhood book exchanges through outdoor book-sharing boxes.

January 13, 2020 - September 15, 2020
Health Literacy Outreach Award: Access Health at East Adams

The East Adams Library District is a small, 95 library in Eastern Washington State that serves multiple small communities in the eastern part of Adams County. Over the years, our communities have steadily lost access to social and health services while seeing a severe decline in annual income per capita all while experiencing an increase in mental and physical health related issues. Our library has decided to confront this issue head on with the creation of Access Health at East Adams. Access Health at East Adams will address our patrons needs in three ways.

June 18, 2019 - August 31, 2020
Vernon Walks: Promoting Health Literacy and Community Fitness in Vernon/Rockville

The Rockville Public Library and its partners, The Vernon Senior Center, The Vernon Housing Authority, and the Rockville General Hospital, seek to improve health outcomes for adult residents living across Vernon/Rockville by promoting health literacy, expanding access to reliable health resources, and increasing fitness activity opportunities.

May 1, 2019 - August 31, 2020
Assessment Award: That's My Medicine: Empowering 89 to Identify and Utilize Personalized Health Information Online

Thats My Medicine: Empowering 89 to Identify and Utilize Personalized Health Information Online supports NLMs missions to promote 89 health literacy and knowledge of personalized medicine. As the 125 becomes increasingly comfortable and dependent on online resources, it is necessary to ensure that pursuing online health information resources is both accurate and timely. 89 are particularly vulnerable to polypharmacy, the use of multiple medications.

January 15, 2020 - July 31, 2020
Collection Development: Blairstown Public Library

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Collection Development: Manning Public Library

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Keck Memorial Library

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Fitbit Kit for Your Community: Winterset Public Library

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

February 1, 2020 - April 30, 2020
Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI

The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria UIC LHSP, the Western Illinois Universitys School of Nursing WIU SON, and public libraries in Fulton County. In this project, librarians, nursing professors, and nursing students will work with public libraries to provide health fairs for the public.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Gathering Welcome: Creating a Curriculum to Teach Health Literacy to Immigrant and Refugee 92

Margaret Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the University of Iowas UI School of Library and Information Science SLIS requests a grant for a second iteration of her pilot program to develop and implement a health literacy training for immigrant and refugee 92 living in Johnson and Linn counties in Iowa. This grant will build upon Dr. Zimmermans current successful project employing SLIS graduate students to deliver a health literacy course to immigrant and refugee 92. Based upon the findings of the current pilot, Dr.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
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