Past Funded Projects

The Greater Houston Area Health Education Center, Inc. will offer classes/trainings at public library facilities and library multi-service centers in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for health professionals, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination. Services offered will include developing and offering health information and education outreach sessions.

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 excellence, Allen currently serves 625 students in seven health programsnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, and occupational therapyranging from associates to doctorates.

The Interactive Health Information Kiosks in Richland County Libraries project will consist of four phases in order to establish and sustain the installment of interactive health information kiosks at Richland Countys local libraries, as well as educating the public on identifying relevant, accurate, and appropriate health research. The first phase of this project will be to obtain and install health information education kiosks at all 9 Richland County libraries.

The opioid crisis has been well documented. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there were 188 births with documented Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome NAS in Dallas County to babies covered by Medicaid. This is 13% of the NAS Medicaid claims for Texas in 2015. There were also 160 opioid-related deaths in 2015 which is 13.6% of the opioid-related deaths in Dallas County. However, Dallas County accounts for 9% of the Texas population.

The 1st PCOM Wellness Fest is scheduled for September 22nd on the Philadelphia campus adjacent to our Healthcare Center. It is an effort to target millennials with a community health fair that is close to home. Millennial deaths from 103 in Philadelphia are rising and the fair will include addiction and treatment information chats. While literature suggests millennials avoid doctors, PCOM views this as an opportunity to offer its clinics as a choice for primary care.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health literacy among its public populations by developing an interactive and traveling exhibit devoted to health literacy and consumer health with online video tutorial components of MedlinePlus and other NLM resources made available on the PRC YouTube Channel. They plan to debut the Interactive Health Literacy and Consumer Health Exhibit Exhibit and promote the video tutorials at the annual 3rd Avenue Street Fair in Manhattan.

This project will improve the current workbook and create a hands-on training program titled, Let's Combat Micrographia, to promote awareness and educate doctors, movement disorder specialists, and patients on the methods of improving micrographia.

South Carolina Chapter of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities SCAAIDD Annual Meeting, October 2-5, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Libraries Without Borders LWB will facilitate health literacy programs inside laundromats in 3 new counties in Minnesota as part of LWB's Wash & Learn Initiative WALI. Implementing partners include the Minnesota State Library Services, the Saint-Paul Public Library, the Anoka County Library, and the Scott County Library. LWB will write and publish 3 case studies drawn from each county, highlighting best practices, We will share these findings across Minnesota through LWB's partnership with the State Library Services.

The University of Texas Medical Branch- Moody Medical Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley - School of Medicine Libraries will partner with the public libraries in the Rio Grande Valley counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy and Starr to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

This project will offer bright light therapy lamps for our patrons for use in the library during the colder months. We will also offer workshops and training using information from National Library of Medicine resources on seasonal affective disorder for patrons and staff.

To paraphrase Lao Tzu, every journey - even a 238,900-mile trip to the moon - begins with a single step. The idea of a simple action leading to profound change inspired the Mohawk Valley, Upper Hudson and Southern Adirondack Library systems to collaborate on a regional pilot project, Library Moon Walk. This project will develop community awareness of NNLM resources and build relationships between public libraries and health organizations while encouraging people in the Mohawk Valley, Southern Adirondacks, and Capital Region of New York State to create healthy habits.

While there have been extensive topics and resources presented at AAFCS conferences, funding opportunities and consumer health information resources, especially those from NNLM, have not been addressed in recent years. Presenting the results of the Laurel Public Library's Outreach to Consumers Award program will demonstrate an innovative, successful way to support individuals in where and how to find reliable health information, promote NNLM institutional membership and resources, funding opportunities, and consumer resources.