Past Funded Projects

Morningcrest Health Library MHL is a consumer health information center located in the Schusterman Center Clinic. MHL provides free public access to NLM databases, supported by the services of a professional medical librarian. The goal of this project is to provide an easier means of navigating online resources by incorporating new touchscreen computers. This will allow individuals who are challenged by a lack of computer skills, or those with limited dexterity, to explore websites independently.

Our service area has four libraries, so we would identify about ten families and/or 89 in each location, if possible. Ten families and/or 89 at a time will meet and learn how to make a week's worth of crockpot meals that are easy, inexpensive, and nutritious. They will be taught how to budget and buy for a week's worth of meals and how to portion the food appropriately to provide necessary nutritional value. Classes will be held at local community buildings that have a full commercial kitchen facility.

Goal: 1 . Increase resources and knowledge of library patrons on health related issues. 2. Make healthy eating fun, tasty, and not intimidating. Objective: 1. Contract 3 health professionals and/or chefs knowledgeable on healthy eating to offer at least 2 classes to 88 and 1 to kids. 2. Each class will introduce and explain how to use the NLM databases to explore different health options. 3. Each health professional will bring their own supplies for their classes.

Goals: - Create awareness of mental health. - Provide health information resources on mental health. - Raise awareness of community resources for mental health. - Provide a positive atmosphere for families to bond and spend time together. Cedar City Library in the Park agrees to: 1. Take lead on art display highlighting works reinforcing theme of 'How do I remain resilient during hard times?' 2. Publish articles in local weekly newspaper on mental health awareness resources.

Low health literacy affects people of any age, income, race or background, and it puts an estimated 90 million Americans at risk. Whether it is interpreting instructions on a prescription bottle, deciphering pages of discharge instructions, completing a health history, or navigating the healthcare system, low health literacy predisposes patients to poor health outcomes and higher rates of preventable hospital admissions. At first glance, health literacy appears to be a problem that lies with the patient and is incumbent upon them to acquire the necessary skills.

The goal of our project is to host a course of classes entitled 'Adulting 101'. These classes will be once a month over a period of nine months. Our objective is to give 87 and young 88 successful skills to enter adulthood and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The topics that will be covered over the period of the course are emotional wellness, personal hygiene, healthy lifestyles i.e.- drugs, alcohol. sex.

This project is part of the Nurse Residency Program being implemented at UPMC Mercy through the Department of Nursing. The Nurse Residency Program is a new, mandatory, year-long program that all newly-hired graduate nurses will have to complete. The program consists of twelve, four-hour long sessions, which ultimately culminates in an evidence-based practice project.

This grant application is for funding to hire a clinical skills expert to develop a health literacy/patient communication module to be incorporated into a mandatory clinical skills review course for third-year students. Students will be brought back to campus from their rotation sites for this course. The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is a fully accredited four-year school of medicine leading to the granting of the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree DO. This is a continuation of funding received last year to integrate health literacy into the Osteopathic Medicine curriculum.

There are profound health inequalities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Exacerbating these health inequalities are barriers to quality health information for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. By linking farmworker youth and farmworker health outreach workers with NLM resources, this project seeks to improve access to health information. This project is a partnership between East Carolina University's Joyner Library and Student Action with Farmworkers SAF, non-profit farmworker advocacy organization founded in 1992.

SIMobile will enable the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, College of Nursing and Health Sciences CONHS implement the Augmented Reality Integrated Simulation Education ARISE Project. The goal is to strengthen simulation instruction by increasing student engagement and access to biomedical resources through technology.

Mount Saint Mary's University MSMU launched a comprehensive wellness movement, 'Mount Wellness,' in 2017 to help its community become, and remain, healthier. The MSMU library system will create a program affiliated with Mount Wellness that introduces MSMU students and staff to National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a focus on MedlinePlus.

Worcester Polytechnic seeks an NNLM NER Member Program Award to subsidize hosting of the 2017 ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow. This program would be made available to librarians throughout the New England region, including academic, health sciences, public, and hospital librarians. This helps meet the NNLM NER's mission to support the continuing education and training of health sciences and public librarians.

The Health and Human Services Librarian at the University of New Hampshire will conduct a questionnaire to identify cost-effective information resources and needed training to assist a target group of Strafford County's healthcare and mental health providers with the assessment and development of opioid addiction treatments and prevention programs.

The project proposed is a health information hub inside a regional Chicago Public Library currently undergoing extensive renovations in a disadvantaged community that suffers from a spate of health conditions. The library, one of only two regional libraries in the city is frequented by 25,000 patrons each month and the goal is to improve both community awareness and health literacy by making information more accessible and culturally relevant to a predominantly African-American community.