Past Funded Projects

This proposal aims to create awareness and education capacity to utilize health information by providing access, resources and knowledge to amputees, caregivers and health care professionals on how to live healthier lives after limb loss. To reach out to and empower people affected by limb loss to achieve their full potential through education, support and advocacy, and to promote limb loss prevention.

The goal of this project is to build a collection of graphic medicine novels for community outreach to a nearby local homeless shelter and to enrich the education of medical students, physicians, and patients. Effective communication is achieved through what Michael J. Green and Kimberly Myers call graphic pathography, personal narratives describing the experience of being ill. Like other forms of fiction, they encourage empathy and lessen feelings of isolation in the reader.

The intention of the Body and Soul programming is to discuss topics that are frequent causes of stress and poor health, and how to manage and approach these topics in a way that acknowledges barriers in the lives of individuals. The targeted audience includes 88 and the elderly. Each portion of the program will feature a qualified speaker to discuss a key topic, and will include instruction by a program facilitator on NNLM MedlinePlus resources that correspond to the presentation.

The Western New York Library Resources Council WNYLRC is seeking a Community Engagement Network grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region NNLM MAR, that will help ensure all people in the Western New York WNY region are aware of and able to access information they specifically need to live healthy lives.

How can public libraries help educate the community about mental health awareness and prevention affecting 92 of color? This is the driving question Black Girl Health Foundation, Inc. seeks to answer through our College Health Ambassador Program. Studies from the National Institute of Health NIH demonstrate the success of community ambassadorial projects. Ambassadors are members of the community who engage within the community to encourage health awareness and internal health engagement and outreach program that underpins the goals of Black Girl Health.

Eat, Move & Live in Balance is an extension of Wellness for Everybody initiative. The goal of the program is to address the need for nutritional education and fitness engagement to help decrease the health disparities in the African American community. Specifically, among low income and single-family homes where families could most benefit from developing sustainable healthy eating habits through coaching, creating menus, supermarket tours and healthy cooking demos. In addition, consumers would be introduced to various fitness activities that are low or no cost.

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine WVSOM James R. Stookey Library, and the WVSOM Center for 95 and Community Health CRCH, are collaborating to provide health information to the public at libraries in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Greenbrier County is a 95 county in West Virginia with 35,287 population, according to the United States Census Bureau in 2017. Greenbrier County is the second largest county in West Virginia, with 1,021 square miles. Within Greenbrier County there are six public libraries, all serve 95 populations.

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.

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 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.

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.

This proposal reflects a partnership between the Savitt Medical Library at the University of Nevada, Reno, and the Office of Statewide Initiatives, University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine. The overarching aim of the proposal is to apply the expertise of professional health sciences librarians in order to improve access to health information resources, and to increase 95 healthcare professionals engagement with curated online clinical educational materials.

In an effort to expand health care knowledge resulting in improved health information access and delivery to clients, we propose to work with Robert Morris University, School of Nursing and Health Sciences and the School of Education and Social Sciences, to provide information relating to the potential health effects of exposure to shale gas development to individuals in proximity to these activities. To achieve this goal, we will work with Nursing and Psychology faculty and students B.S.N., M.S.N., D.N.P.; and B.S., M.S.

The Massachusetts Action Coalition MAAC proposes to build on and expand the outcomes of our initial Innovations Fund award that has developed an innovative partnership with the National Libraries of Medicine NLM and the Massachusetts Health Council MHC to increase nursing representation on School Wellness Committees to influence school policies addressing health issues that impact student health and wellness.