PREL Receives NLM Funds for Community-Based Health Information Outreach Project
The National Library of Medicine has funded Healthy Information Partnership in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, an NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region project that will rely on partnerships with community-based organizations as a strategy for promoting access to health information among minority and other underserved populations. The project, one of nine projects funded nationwide, will be directed by Thomas Barlow of Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), Honolulu, HI. It will last eighteen months and will implement plans developed as part of a previously funded planning phase.
This project targets teenage parents in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). During this project's planning phase, Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) partnered with several health and social service providers in the RMI to develop and administer a community assessment survey. Findings from the survey underscore the importance of personal contact as the preferred means of reaching teen parents. PREL will collaborate with Youth to Youth in Health (YYIH), an existing community-based organization that relies on performances and workshops to disseminate health information. The RMI's national library and various government ministries will also assist with the project.
Funding for this project was provided through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Funding for both the planning and implementation of the project was provided by funds from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities to the National Library of Medicine. More information on all the projects can be found at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/nnlmcommunity04.html
Congratulations to Tom Barlow and his staff at PREL!