Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The purpose of this project, as originally proposed, is to advance health literacy capacity and to improve clinical information discovery skills of health professionals in Eastern Washington. The targeted health professionals work in clinics, in long-term care facilities, and in schools in Eastern Washington.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh HACP is requesting grant funding to expand its existing digital literacy program, which is designed to bridge the digital divide among low-income public housing communities. HACP is proposing to incorporate health literacy programming by incorporating MedlinePlus and other online health tools into the curriculum of its existing digital literacy program.

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

This project will build upon a successful 5-year evolving partnership between the New Haven Free Public Library NHFPL and Liberty Community Services, Inc. LCS by integrating resources and references in case management services provided onsite at NHFPL. The services focus on people experiencing homelessness or unstable housing. Libraries, as default front doors to homeless services, are in a unique position to engage community members in need of information, support services and referrals related to health, housing and potential sources of income.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Washington County, Maine, to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a particular emphasis on research/clinical trials, the project, and the role of the community in advancing medicine.

Through the proposed project, Healthy Acadia will work across Hancock County, Maine to plan and conduct community engagement activities, centered on increasing access to and awareness of National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a particular emphasis on research/clinical trials, the project, and the role of the community in advancing medicine.

University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library staff with other members of the Knoxville Area Health Science Libraries Consortium will provide consumer health information packets to patients attending three Remote Area Medical RAM clinic events in East Tennessee. They will target the clinic sites closest to Knoxville. Librarians shall include surveys in the packets to be handed out or mailed to health consumers. They will also ask for the patients zip code and county. They may also evaluate consumers for health literacy level at the events.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

The NNLM Consumer Health Collection Award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

As an agent of intra-community cooperation and collaboration, the C.H. Booth Library proposes to geographically expand its successful Newtown program to neighboring communities. This will include outreach and public education to communities in greater Fairfield County concerning the Research Program AoU and health information literacy using resources available from the NIH via the mobile kiosk funded by the 2018-2019 AoU program.

Resolve to Stay Active: A Fitbit Kit for Your Community supports public libraries or other community organizations which serve populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research in providing access to health technology and consumer health resources. Background/Purpose: This award supports the mission of the NNLM Community Engagement Network to: Help public libraries support the health information needs in their communities by providing National Library of Medicine and other quality health education resources to enable individuals to make informed decisions about their health.

95 populations face unique challenges in meeting health and wellness goals including a lack of proximity to healthcare facilities, high chronic disease burden, and poverty. 95 residents are also less likely than metropolitan residents to participate in clinical research trials, which can widen the disparities in treatment and interventions that meet their needs.

In recent years Brooklyn Public Library BPL has identified public health as a growing area of need. Through its 59 branches and Central Library, BPL offers an array of programs that target health education and outcomes, but does not have a coordinated approach to the types of health-related programs offered or a system for making referrals to trustworthy health resources, including online information and community organizations.

The NNLM Community Engagement Network Ambassador Program: Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN, will serve as a vital link between the NNLM Community Engagement Network, public libraries, community organizations, and individuals from underrepresented in biomedical research populations across Marion County, Indiana.

The NNLM Community Engagement Center CEC has been awarded $92,175 to develop and implement a pilot Consumer Health Community of Practice1 CoP in partnership with an external partner. This CoP will pilot modes and manners of community engaged learning and practice to ultimately positively impact health literacy through health, wellness and the Research Program 71.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL, part of the University Libraries, will implement a training program for library staff, students, and the public using and adapting the NNLM Engage for Health curriculum, and the Middle Atlantic Region of NNLMs class, entitled, Patient Empowerment: Using Health Information Resources to Improve Health Communication.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL, part of the University Libraries, will implement a training program for library staff, students, and the public using and adapting the NNLM Engage for Health curriculum, and the Middle Atlantic Region of NNLMs class, entitled, Patient Empowerment: Using Health Information Resources to Improve Health Communication.

The Healthy Communities in Fulton County, Illinois HCFCI project is a collaboration between the University of Illinois at Chicagos Library of the Health Sciences in Peoria UIC LHSP, the Western Illinois Universitys School of Nursing WIU SON, and public libraries in Fulton County. In this project, librarians, nursing professors, and nursing students will work with public libraries to provide health fairs for the public.

Margaret Zimmerman, an Assistant Professor with the University of Iowas UI School of Library and Information Science SLIS requests a grant for a second iteration of her pilot program to develop and implement a health literacy training for immigrant and refugee 92 living in Johnson and Linn counties in Iowa. This grant will build upon Dr. Zimmermans current successful project employing SLIS graduate students to deliver a health literacy course to immigrant and refugee 92. Based upon the findings of the current pilot, Dr.

The Oakland University William Beaumont OUWB School of Medicine Medical Library and Auburn Hills Public Library established a health literacy educational outreach partnership in August 2018. Since then, the libraries have partnered to plan, offer, and evaluate a series of pilot programs for 86, their parents, and adult library users on various health topics. The programs were developed and implemented by an interdisciplinary team including medical school faculty and staff, medical students, medical librarians, and public librarians.