Past Funded Projects

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso TTUHSCEP Libraries proposes to deliver outreach services to health care professionals and the 125 in the El Paso area by means of classes, booths at health fairs, and site visits. All outreach activities will be taking place in the predominantly Hispanic/Latino El Paso area.

It's a Girl Thing is a cardiovascular education workshop geared toward junior and cadet girl scouts 9-14 years old. The workshop promotes heart health lessons/topics to the girls and their chaperones through individual workshops. With the increasing awareness of obesity and diabetes in the world today, 86 need to be taught this information starting at a young age. To accomplish this we plan on providing workshops that focus on eating healthy, exercising, and self esteem.

Algonquin Regional High School has a HOSA Health Occupation Students of America club going into it's 4th year. We have attended the State Leadership Conference at UMass Medical Center for 3 years and will attend this year on Saturday, April 8, 2017. We are applying for this $5000 grant in order to educate the 35 members of our ARHS HOSA chapter and to facilitate their outreach programs for the school and community. Our education and outreach programs would focus on health-related careers and topics.

The goal of this project is to improve middle and high school students' ability to locate and evaluate health information, including online resources using iPads within Hertford County Public Schools.

1. Saratoga Elementary School Library staff will provide training to Saratoga Middle/High School Librarian in the use of National Library of Medicine health resources for consumers during the fall semester. 2. Provide health information literacy instruction for K-6 students once during fall semester, and once during spring semester. 3. Provide health information literacy instruction for 9th graders once during spring semester. 4. Provide health information literacy instruction for parents at at least one PTO meeting.

Attend the SLA Pharmeceutical & Health Tech Spring Meeting

1. Organize existing donor, volunteer, and constituent data so that it may be used to support the effectiveness of the program and allow for increased funding to serve clients now and in the future. 2. Outreach to current MNB members, over 14,000 nationwide, to provide services, direction and support regarding treatment and recovery options and assistance, and specifically in Southeastern Massachusetts determine what services are provided efficiently and/or lacking via a survey of supporters of a person with a SUD and those seeking these services.

Attend the Wisconsin Health Literacy Summit

This health information outreach funding proposal is to obtain stateoftheart technology in both the library and health classroom at the Page Hilltop Elementary School in Ayer, MA. Page Hilltop, one of two elementary schools in the Ayer Shirley Regional School District ASRSD, serves students prek through fifth grade, totalling approximately 560 students. This proposal is requesting two interactive projectors and laptops for use in both the health classroom and library. Interactive projectors transform existing dry erase whiteboards or plain walls into interactive workspaces.

Attend the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

Attend an online Negotiation Skills for Librarians

Health education is taught at all school grade levels in the Caddo Parish School System CPSS. Librarians from the Health Sciences Library at LSU Health Shreveport LSUHS will work with the Caddo Science Department's K-6 and 6-12 Curriculum Instructional Specialists CIS and the Supervisor of Libraries of Caddo Parish Schools to bring awareness and encourage the use of gamification and game-based learning health and sciences resources linked from the NLM databases.

This initiative involves high school 89 interviewing 89 at retirement homes. What legacy do the elders hope to leave behind? What stories do they fondly remember? What foods became their favorites? What connections in these stories are there to our ancestors and early inhabitants of the Cape? How does medicine today compare to the medicines of old that perhaps grew in the fields and marshes along the Cape?

Residents of Coconino County, because it is the second largest county by area in the United States with many 95 populations that lack access to easily attainable medical care, face many challenges regarding health and wellness and resources for information about health and wellness. Some communities are more than 100 miles from a library and/or a health care facility. The Public Health Services District for Coconino County sees significant rates of injury, death from injury, diabetes, communicable diseases, poor oral hygiene, tobacco use, and poor nutrition.