Past Funded Projects

Support for Amelea Kim of Montana State Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

Support for Joann Flick of Montana State Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

Support for Karen Schaefer of Langlois Public Library to attend ALA Midwinter 2019.

With Utah leading the nation in incidences of skin cancer, Summit County Library will receive funding to raise awareness of skin cancer and provide resources for prevention.

According to a 2011 Nutrition & Health Sciences Study done under the Supervision of Professor Julie Albrecht in July, 2011 More than 25% of school 86 in the U.S. are overweight. Attitudes about food preparation were examined. A likert-scale survey was distributed. Concerning factors included: cooking techniques, student food choices, classroom activities, and local support. Many of these same 86 making poor school choices are learning these choices from home as well.

Goal: 1. Increase knowledge and resources for RFLES teachers to teach students how the body functions, processes food and is affected by exercise to reinforce the need for healthy eating and exercise. 2. Make nutrition and healthy eating fun, tasty, and accessible for families. Objective: 1. Contract 2 health professionals and/or chefs knowledgeable on healthy eating to offer at least 2 classes at the RFLES and/or the RFLCL after school programs. Each health professional will bring their own supplies for their classes. 2.

Blue Hill Library will receive funding to provide instruction on healthy cooking and nutrition for 86 and their parents. The programming will incorporate training on health information resources to research healthy eating and nutrition information and offer ways to incorporate all recommended food groups into their eating habits.

Independence Public Library will provide programming on physical, mental, and financial health to underserved families in the librarys service area.

In collaboration with Wood River Elementary School, Maltman Memorial Library will provide after-school programming for 100 students. The robust programming will focus on healthy eating understanding food labels, cooking classes and exercise activities. This programming will help supplement the nutrition and fitness curriculum areas of making healthy decisions; eating well-balanced meals; nutritional properties of foods; benefits of physical activity; and balancing strength, endurance, and flexibility.

This collaboration with Red Feather Lakes Elementary School provided after-school programming for 50 students and their family members on healthy eating and nutrition, integrating anatomical models e.g., digestive system, muscles, and joints. This programming supported the elementary schools curriculum involving applying knowledge and skills to engage in lifelong healthy eating. The school lacks science supplies and a functional kitchen, so this collaboration fills a big gap for the school.

The centerpiece of this program will involve public screenings of the documentary movie More Than Skin Deep: Skin Cancer in America. These movie screenings will take place at the 3 branches of the Summit County Library System.

During a 4- to 6-hour mini-academy lesson at the American University of Health Sciences AUHS, young people will learn about First Aid, CPR, blood pressure, and body mass index BMI. Participants will learn the fundamentals of behavior change and develop a personal project to address how they can become 'health advocates' in their own home and community. Participants will have the opportunity to show how information learned during the lesson could be used to reduce healthcare disparities in their community.

Janet Masud-Paul is requesting funding to attend the University of Pittsburgh's Systematic Review Workshop: the Nuts and Bolts for Librarians. I am attending this workshop to understand the underlying framework for systematic reviews and improve the Libraries' ability to collaborate with our College of Nursing and Health Professions faculty/students working through this process.

To enable the Southern Chapter of MLA to support and host a speaker on diversity and inclusion. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018. As noted in the 2018 Janet Doe lecture by Elaine Martin and in the Plenary Session #5 featuring former Surgeon General, Dr. Satcher, diversity and inclusion are important topics to libraries and librarians. Derrick Jefferson, MLIS, MFA, main research area is diversity and inclusion.