Past Funded Projects

Students from Mansfield Senior High School will be guided by 131s and librarians to create original public health research projects over the course of the 2020-2021 school year. They will attend 4 workshops on how to research a local public health topic based on the current issues in the community. Participating students will end the school year by presenting a poster and oral presentation to community stakeholders including the Health Commissioner, County Commissioners, Directors of various local health and social service agencies, local business owners and community organizers.

This project will provide the 92 in our community the opportunity to become educated on the importance of taking care of themselves in a variety of different ways that include physical health, mental health, emotional health, and safety. The project will include a NLM Traveling Exhibit on Domestic Abuse and a personal safety course offered by local experts. A self-care fair for female youth and 88 that will have different booths that addresses all the aspects of self-care such as skin care, diet, exercise, mental health, support groups, beauty, fashion, hobbies/interests, etc.

The 88tal Health and Well-Being Resources project is designed to increase health literacy and mental health awareness in the North Country Library System, a mostly 95 geographic area that consists of four counties in northern New York. The project has two components. The first component consists of increasing the amount of mental health training and resources for library staff and patrons by purchasing online Homeless Librarian training, hosting an Effective Skills for Emotional Wellness training and adding mental health ebooks and audio-books to the NCLS Overdrive collection.

The Health Access Program at Nationalities Service Center assists vulnerable refugee and immigrant clients to gain crucial knowledge for their health and to access needed healthcare services. Health Access staff will develop and implement an oral health curriculum for refugees and immigrants and translate necessary materials for implementation into several languages to further support the community. Translated materials will be submitted to the NLM site, HealthReach at the end of the project.

The COVID-19 Health Information Access-What You Need to Know program is designed to train community members and healthcare professionals on strategies on how to manage information overload and combat misinformation. The goals of the program are to promote awareness of mis- and disinformation that lead to serious and harmful physical and mental consequences and to provide access to high quality electronic information resources to help make informed health care decisions relating to COVID-19.

This project will bring together community health program stakeholders across the Las Vegas Valley in order to discover educational needs and design appropriate online interventions prioritizing National Library of Medicine NLM and National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM materials for health workers in the field. The focus of stakeholder meetings will include identifying areas for education across health literacy and consumer health information and aims to prioritize delivery and incentives to increase likelihood of participation by frontline health workers.

The Potocsnak Family Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Lurie 86s Hospital, led by Dr. Robert Garofalo MD, MPH, provides comprehensive care to promote positive health outcomes for youth in and around Chicago. Our services are structured to support all youth, specializing in reaching young people who often experience barriers to accessing services. Although the HIV epidemic has begun seeing overall decreases nationally, young men who have sex with men of color YMSMOC are still acquiring HIV at increasing rates.

Our project will provide culturally and linguistically appropriate COVID-19 outreach and education to low-income immigrants and refugees in the Chinatown and Lincoln Heights areas of Los Angeles. Low-income immigrants and refugees are among the highest at risk of contracting COVID-19 but the least likely to receive accurate public health information in a timely manner. This is due to a wide range of economic, linguistic, and technological barriers.

The Institute for Community, Youth and Family Services Inc. The Institute proposes to provide COVID-19 resources and education to Alabamas most low-income communities. By partnering with service providers, churches, local government and the public housing authority we will ensure that trainings and materials are useful to the community itself and delivered through trusted institutions who can best serve them from within the community.

High-quality end of life care should be available to all individuals in a timely manner, and in alignment with their values, wishes, and goals. Unfortunately, the reality of end of life care in the United States is quite different, with the healthcare system often failing to meet the needs of certain communities. One particular community, immigrant families, encounter particular disparities in quality of, and access to, end of life care.

Project: TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma is a multi-faceted project designed in 2012. This program designed to address the health needs of 95 communities in Southern WV and Southwestern Virginia while providing HIV information during health education for health disparities and the social determinates of health that directly affect 95, poverty-stricken communities with special emphasis on Health technology and communities of color.

In partnership with the Network of the National Library of Medicine NNLM 101 Coordination Center NACC and community based organization, 2 Know is 2 Live, The T.R.U.T.H. Project TTP will reach vulnerable communities of color who are at an elevated risk of contracting HIV. Additionally, TTP will provide concentrated outreach to vulnerable, affected, medically underserved communities, focused on educating and strengthening resources and knowledge to those least likely to receive it.

Enterprise Data Warehouses EDWs play an increasingly important role on academic medical campuses, housing clinical and other enterprise-wide data and making it available for research and strategic purposes in the learning health system.

The Partner Library will coordinate the Education project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access. - Underserved populations in the NN/LM MCR, who are ready, benefit from NN/LM MCR programs.