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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 project will provide learning opportunities for the Goddard community on the topics of gardening, the importance of mental health, healthy eating, and healthy living. The Project will schedule monthly programs for the community. Offerings will include but not be limited to blood pressure checks, yoga classes for all ages, healthy eating meal preparation for the week, massage, chiropractic information, gardening, self-care, exercise, StoryWalks on local trails and at local parks to promote movement and more.

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.

The FLX Kids are Alright initiative aims to improve mental health literacy for middle- and high-school aged youth in five counties in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Through a unique partnership between Common Ground Health, the Rochester Public Library, Pioneer Library System and the Rochester Regional Library Council, the initiative will directly engage youth in the creation of new mental health and well-being literacy resources to improve library collections and programming.

The Worcester Public Library WPL seeks to educate adult patrons on food choices for healthy living. The Worcester area has a high rate of nutritionally underserved residents who suffer from medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. This grant would offer nutrition education and healthy cooking classes to WPL patrons, including 89, those affected by homelessness, and low-income residents, to provide them with tools to learn how to plan, manage, select, and prepare healthy food.

This project undertakes outreach activities to further development of, and facilitate access to, a public knowledge repository of information on Indigenous nutritional health. The Research for Indigenous Community Health RICH Center at the University of Minnesota is building a curated database of reliable information resources relevant to Native nutritional health, accessed via a public website.

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.

Direct-to-consumer advertising DTCA for prescription drugs has been an ongoing, contentious issue in the United States. Despite oversight from the U.S.

As 126s, we know that health literacy is a shared responsibility between us, the patient and the patients family. Yet, we struggle to address the issue in a way that empowers our young patients and their caregivers, particularly minorities and the underserved. We want to change that by providing specific, high-risk families with a resource that will empower them to provide the best care to their 86. Cook 86s Medical Center currently has several initiatives that focus on identifying and assisting underserved families who are known to be repeat users of the Emergency Department.

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.

This project will provide community outreach events that expand on local and national conversations surrounding transgender and intersex gender diverse athletes participation in sports. This includes best practices for working with gender diverse athletes, and the health disparities that arise from systemic limitations on the ability of gender diverse persons to take part in safe, inclusive physical activities and competition.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer a nine month program July 2017- March 2018 for 90 high school girls enrolled in Eureka! Girls Inc.'s capstone STEM- science, technology, engineering, and math- program and 150 girls registered in Girls Inc.'safter school program. Girls Inc.'s multi-tiered Healthy Living Project aligns with NNLM's mission to broaden access to and awareness of health information resources, with an emphasis of using those resources provided by NLM. The project will complement and enhance Eureka! and Girls Inc. after school programs.

This project will deliver a 9 month Healthy Communities Mapping Project. This mapping project will empower 90 high school students enrolled in Eureka!, our 5-year STEM science, technology, engineering, and math college and career readiness program, to discover, map out, and engage with health resources in the Greater Worcester community, using innovative technology. The information and results of this project will be presented to more than 150 girls and their families that are enrolled in Girls Inc.'s After School program.

The proposed project will expand on the success of previous initiatives to use community informed, culturally tailored original artwork and stories to promote ART initiation and adherence among adolescents and young 88 who are living with HIV. The project will utilize multiple focus groups that were held with adolescents and young 88 who are living with HIV to create 8 unique episodes of a story about an HIV support group. The characters in the group will be racially and ethnically diverse, and will represent a variety of HIV stories e.g.

Darien Library proposes the creation of 11 Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits, modeled after those offered by NNLM NER. The Librarys Strategic Plan challenges us to connect our patrons discreetly with experts and information to improve our communitys well-being. Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits will allow us to purchase graphic novels that speak to the health and wellness needs of the community, provide readers with reliable health information from the National Institutes of Health, and spark further discussions on these health topics within the community.

While need for easily accessible entry-points to graphic medicine for all of our stakeholders has long been recognized, work toward the proposed liaison project began in earnest during the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference held in White River Junction, VT sponsored in part by NNLM NER. Discussing his work as a Cartooning Chaplain, Kurt Shaffert expressed difficulty in engaging the larger chaplain community with graphic medicine and that an elevator pitch of sorts would help.

The Hardin Library for the Health Sciences HLHS, University of Iowa will assist the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NN/LM, a program of the National Library of Medicine NLM with its mission of advancing the progress of medicine and improving the health of the public by: 1 providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and, 2 improving the public's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

Black Girls with Green Thumbs promotes health literacy in a way that is culturally competent and accessible, meeting community members where they are, online and within their neighborhoods, and inviting them to new experiences like home gardening or health-inspired getaways. The proposed Green Thumbs In Your Community project will build a community of individuals, families and community institutions like public libraries that utilize gardening as a tool for nutrition education and positive health outcomes.

In public libraries, Black Girls with Green Thumbs @blackgirlswithgreenthumbs will host a series of community workshops centered on gardening, nutrition, and plant-based cooking. The adaptation of their typical programming for public library audiences in 98 and 97 neighborhoods in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties will be largely influenced by timing. Rather than starting the workshop series with the development of a garden, they will end the programs with the development of a Spring/Summer garden.

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. A primary focus of our work will be to increase health literacy for the 125 through partnerships with public libraries, including recruiting local librarians to provide community workshops and one-on-one tutorials to increase knowledge and use of NLM online resources.

This four-module pilot curriculum provides the necessary tools for library staff to recognize the health and social challenges facing their most vulnerable patrons, engage with those patrons, and subsequently refer them to appropriate community-based resources. Over the next eight months of this project, we seek to modifythe pilot curriculum and deliver it to staff working in various capacities at the CHLC training site 1, including individuals working in the library, pediatric and adult clinics, and the recreation center.