Past Funded Projects

This award is intended to help public libraries support the health information needs of their communities by providing funding for health-related program kits. Program kits should be comprised of health information and can be used for circulation purposes or in direct support of health programs.

University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library staff with other members of the Knoxville Area Health Science Libraries Consortium will provide consumer health information packets to patients attending three Remote Area Medical RAM clinic events in East Tennessee. They will target the clinic sites closest to Knoxville. Librarians shall include surveys in the packets to be handed out or mailed to health consumers. They will also ask for the patients zip code and county. They may also evaluate consumers for health literacy level at the events.

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.

Congratulations to Taira Meadowcroft from University of Missouri - J. Otto Lottes Library for receiving a professional development award to attend the Library Marketing and Communications Conference! The professional development award was available to librarians or library staff that support marketing efforts in their libraries or organizations. Award recipients will also work with a mentor to receive individualized coaching prior to, during, and after the conference is over to maximize the recipient's learning experience.

Graphic medicine, or the overlap of comics and healthcare, has emerged over the past decade from a once small, sporadically discussed idea to a burgeoning field of study and subgenre in its own right. For librarians, the growth of the field - which includes a National Library of Medicine exhibit, "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!" - presents numerous opportunities, ranging from reinvigorating interest in physical collections to interactive programming.

The Healthy Living and Learning Center HLLC at the Petersburg Public Library provides a consistent and familiar place where community members go to obtain accurate and reliable health information and connect to available local resources. The majority of Petersburg residents live more than a mile away from a grocery store where fresh produce is available. The proposed healthy grocery shopping and education project aimed at under-served Senior citizens over the age of 65 is a community/grassroots effort that fills an existing void in the city of Petersburg and adjacent areas.

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of healthcare education, Allen currently serves 661 students in eight health programs ranging from associates to doctoratesnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, occupational therapy, and health education.

The GAR2N Project Growing Access to Resources Directed at Emotional Needs is a health literacy intervention designed to improve emotional wellness knowledge and related communications skills among 88 in 95 settings. A team of health literacy experts will engage public health faculty and subject matter experts to develop a guide that will help individuals at various health literacy levels identify emotional wellness needs in themselves or others and develop the communication skills necessary to connect with appropriate sources of care.

Team Maureen, a nonprofit dedicated to ending cervical cancer by educating about the HPV-Cancer connection and the importance of prevention and early detection, in collaboration with Brigham and 92s Hospital have a long history of providing education across Massachusetts MA about Human Papillomavirus HPV. Our work has resulted in meeting unmet needs and gaps in educating underserved and at risk populations; and our projects have been replicated nationwide and published in several peer-reviewed journals. Our next undertaking involves educational outreach with 109 oral health providers.

The Dementia & Research Awareness project embodies the NNLM Public Library Partnership Award mission in two vital ways. One, by focusing on one group of underserved individuals that libraries are just beginning to serve those living with dementia and their care partners the project promotes the use of public libraries to support community health information needs through the use of National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources.

HAMA will be conducting a Massachusetts-Based Health Education tour from May 2019 August 2019. The objective of this project stems from the need for more culturally-specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Last year, HAMA conducted this project for the first time. Based off the success of the project and needs assessment obtained through surveying recipients of the educational sessions we have decided to repeat this project for continued impact within our Haitian community in the Massachusetts area.

To support the development of a Communication Chart, which is a clinical tool that will be used to facilitate effective communication between patients and healthcare providers. The charts are translated into four different languages CHamoru, Chuukese, English, and Filipino to best serve the diverse patient population of Guam and Micronesia. Using visuals and plain language in an easy-to-understand layout, they will be implemented to assist patients dealing with language barriers or conditions inhibiting verbal communication.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC at Weill Cornell Medicine WCM is devoted to providing consumer health information and health literacy services to patients, caregivers, faculty, students, and public neighbors in communities surrounding NewYork Presbyterian Hospital NYPH sites in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, and the Hudson Valley. PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health by developing a consumer health and health literacy-training module for public health librarians in the Brooklyn Public Library System.

This grant application is to fund adaptive kayaking events supported by the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Volunteers-In-Parks program in partnership with Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park. To be held at the Douglas State Forest, Douglas, MA. This grant application is to support individuals with who have assorted disabilities.