Bellevue College will improve health information access for underrepresented populations by purchasing 30 hotspots and data plans for student use, as well as create a series of workshops instructing patrons in finding high-quality information about COVID-19, including NIH and NLM sources. The workshops will also address combating misinformation around COVID-19, and educating participants about evaluating online information.

Heritage Public Library will improve public health by providing health and science programs and resources to improve individuals access to health and science information. This will expand the health and science literacy of our community of populations underrepresented by biomedical research. Heritage Public Library will emphasize virtual programs and these programs will be conducted online if feasible or will include materials that can be taken home to serve the large proportion of Heritage Public Librarys community that do not have reliable broadband access.

The primary goal of this project is to assist in the delivery of improved and discrete health information to the residents of Marthas Vineyard. The project will provide funding to purchase a computer station with printing availability for patrons needing discrete medical information. This station will be located primarily in the West Tisbury Library Health and Wellness section of the Library for patrons to use with discretion.

Health Career Exploration K-8 is a series of short sub-curriculum activities designed to help students gain valuable new insights about health and healthcare, and health careers, while having fun. This web-based program is comprised of a combination of 12 age-appropriate video and PowerPoint presentations created to introduce students to health screenings, various health professions, healthcare terminology, health procedures, and various healthcare settings.

Health Careers Awareness Workshops developed by the Southcentral Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center SC PA AHEC will be open to the public, targeting high school students who have an interest in the health care field. Participants will be offered three Saturday workshops from 10 AM- 3 PM at the Cambria County Public Library in Johnstown, PA and another three Saturday workshop segments at the Cambria County Public Library in Patton, PA. This will allow participants from both the Johnstown City and surrounding areas, and the northern part of the county to attend.

The California Health Sciences University CHSU Health Sciences Library, in collaboration with the CHSU Simulation Center, Marketing and Communications, and faculty and staff in the College of Osteopathic Medicine COM and the College of Pharmacy COP strive to educate the next generation of health professionals to serve the people of the state of California, particularly in the Central Valley. We seek to engage high school students from underrepresented populations and in areas of highest need.

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.

The Health In The Square project will provide learning opportunities to the Mason Square community on nutrition, gardening, and health literacy. Through workshops and technology, National Library of Medicine's health resources help will build a foundation of health literacy for the community and help alleviate food insecurity.

Southern Alabama Area Health Education Center SAAHEC strives to grow the next generation of medical professionals to serve the people of Alabama, train health profession students and provide health information and education to the communities in our 10 counties. The Health Information and Career Awareness Program HICAP contributes to the mission of National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM by improving our communities access and awareness of health information and enabling them to make informed decisions about their health.

This pilot training program will contribute to community resilience-building efforts in Philadelphia to counteract the effects of weather-related emergencies including extreme heat events, hurricanes and flooding. Training components will include an introduction to online health preparedness resources, a preparedness kit demonstration, and an assessment of community training needs and interests. Trainings will occur at neighborhood libraries in geographic areas identified as having higher annual average surface temperatures than other parts of the city.

Goal: To provide cancer patients and caregivers with ready access to quality health information and leisure apps that will help improve health care and decrease stress. Objective: McGoogan Library will provide access to four tablets with cancer health information and apps for leisure and mindfulness. Outcome 1: Health information benefits patient care or patient-provider communication. Outcome 2: Mindfulness and leisure apps help reduce patient or caregiver anxiety.

McGoogan Library will offer the tablet-lending program through the Resource and Wellness Center at the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Each tablet will be set up with links to trustworthy health websites, including MedlinePlus, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, and National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guidelines for Patients. There will also be a link to a form to submit a request to the library for research help. Resources to help decrease stress will include apps for meditation, music, games, and sports.

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.

The Health Information and Community Outreach Program aims to provide information literary program and resources for health awareness in our community. We plan to do this by reaching out to senior residences, community organizations and the 125. We will offer classes and conduct information sessions on how to find reliable health information online. Participants to the training will learn how to navigate online resource such as the Medline Plus website to find answers to their health questions.

Parents/caregivers of 86 with developmental disabilities need information that will help them make decisions regarding their child's treatment and keep them safe and healthy.

The Columbia County Traveling Library is working toward doing more community outreach in partnership with area agencies. We hope to outfit our new bookmobile as a mobile classroom that would help us provide outreach and education for the 95 populations we serve, which experience significant health and economic disparities. We already reach more than 500 regular patrons at 49 bookmobile stops. We plan to engage them at this point of contact by offering semi-formal tablet-based trainings on how to use tablets and how to access quality online health information.

Residents of 95 communities face increasing challenges to optimizing health and well-being. Beyond structural barriers, health disparities in 95 areas are heightened due to lack of access to quality health information. This project seeks to address this issue by developing a health information literacy training INQUIRY tailored to 95 youth.

At 12% proficiency, U.S. health literacy sets the population at disadvantage for consumer health outcomes and overall healthcare costs NCES, 2006; DHHS, 2017. While efforts exist for improvement via rewriting and training in plain language, these strategies are found to be limited 'pieces of a process that must be placed in a larger community context' NNLM, 2018. Witnessed in this context is variance in access to health resources multiplied by effects of social determinants such as aging, low socio-economic and minority status.

The Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project will provide reliable and free access health information to residents within the Richmond County. Using the public libraries as a host venue, various speakers and officials will teach participants about health issues relevant to the Augusta area such as opioid use, Alzheimer's disease, cardiovascular disease, domestic abuse, and diabetes. Over six months, there will be six presentations about the selected topics with two of the presentations being about opioid use.

The program is to build awareness about the importance of how participating in clinical research studies can bring about better therapies for diseases. We will briefly outline the research process, and then describe how participatory research is changing how research is done - doing research with, rather than to, research subjects. We will briefly discuss how data science and the National Institutes of Health's precision medicine research program are examples of newer approaches to include 95, underrepresented, or ignored populations in the community in clinical research studies.

Southern Chapter/Medical Library Association SCMLA is hosting it's 67th annual meeting, Oct. 19-22, 2017, in Knoxville, TN, hosted by Univ. of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Preston Medical Library.

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.

McDowell Cares- is a non-profit/profit collaboration in the Town of Northfork, McDowell County, West Virginia. This collaboration between South Central Educational SCED and Bennady's Restaurant formed out of the owners concerns of the lack of health equity, youth leadership, and the area's poverty levels. This partnership will provide 95 community residents with access to electronic health information, prevention interventions and internet access to reliable quality health information and resources.

This proposal describes Phase 2 of a two-phase health literacy program in Charlottesville, Virginia. It aligns with the NNLM and SEA's mission to help people 'make informed decisions about their health,' to promote healthy behaviors, prevent costly and debilitating illness, and improve health outcomes. Phase 1, 'Coming to the Table, Needs Assessment, and Planning,' was funded by NNLM SEA Outreach Award 73. The full report for Phase 1 is due by May 20, 2017. We can briefly report here that our goal was achieved and lays a strong foundation for Phase 2.

The project that we want to do will be teaching Participants how to use the Internet/Computer to find reliable health information online using the MedlinePlus.gov and NN/LM SE/A websites. We plan to continue our project we started pairing Senior Citizens with 87 so that the 87 could teach the Senior Citizens how to use the Amazon Fire 8 HD Tablet to find online reliable health information on the internet using MedlinePlus.gov.

PIA will provide hands on PowerPoint computer training designed to improve the 125s' access to web based health information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. We will do this by offering training in navigating medlineplus.gov and other online medical websites.

This project will increase access to health information by improving the health literacy attributes of The University of Tennessee Medical Center UTMC. Library faculty will lead an assessment of health literacy sensitive characteristics of the UTMC and will provide a basis for promoting changes in our healthcare system based on evidence. Librarians will partner with UTMC stakeholders and University of Tennessee graduate students to implement assessment tools called the Health Literacy Environment of Hospitals and Health Centers HLEHH.

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.

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.

The University of Florida UF Health Science Center Libraries' HSCL Health Information Outreach project will bring health information resources & literacy skills training to librarians, community organizations, and members of the public throughout Alachua County. Using the mobile outreach kit, the project team will equip librarians and other community 12s to teach their users about health information resources, and to understand the challenges those with limited health literacy face in understanding health information, regardless of their location or available facilities.