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Dragonfly Winter 2003 -- Volume 34, Number 1

Focus on Funding Series.
Part I: Access To Wellness Project

by Gail Kouame
Consumer Health Coodrinator, NN/LM PNR

Five projects in the Pacific Northwest emphasizing "Access to Electronic Health Information" were recently funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). We will highlight each of them individually in this series of Dragonfly articles. The maximum award for each project was $40,000. For further information about funding opportunities, visit our web site at: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/funding.

Access to Wellness Project

The sponsoring agency for this project is the African Americans Reach and Teach Health Ministry (AARTH) in Seattle, Washington. AARTH is a faith-based, capacity-building, nonprofit health ministry organization established in 2001 to respond to HIV/AIDS and other major health issues affecting people of African descent. AARTH's mission is to build the capacity of churches and faith-based institutions that serve people of African descent through education, access to resources and self-advocacy for better health care services.

The purpose of the Access to Wellness Project is to equip AARTH with the tools and resources that will provide access to health information which is culturally relevant and user friendly, and to help educate African American congregations and faith-based organizations throughout Western Washington. The goals of the project are to:

• Establish and equip a faith-based health ministry network with the capacity and infrastructure to increase awareness and knowledge about prevention and health care, and promote responsible health choices and practices.
• Provide churches and faith-based organizations with appropriate access to online health information. Emphasis will be on those diseases that predominately and disproportionately affect and impact African Americans.
• Establish a Web site for African Americans Reach and Teach Health Ministry with linkages to culturally relevant health information.

Project partners include AARTH, Mars Hill Graduate School, and seven Western Washington churches and faith-based organizations. The project will also rely upon resources provided by the Pacific Northwest Regional Medical Library. To find out more about AARTH and their project partners, you can visit their web site at: http://aarth.org.

• Part II. Computer Health Literacy for Seniors in Northern Idaho
• Part III. Empowering Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Part IV. Online Access to Reviewed Health Education Materials

Dragonfly, Winter 2003- Volume 34 Number 1
(posted on PNRNews on March 12, 2003)

This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.

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