Citizen Science Game Day is a project for public libraries and other NNLM members to promote citizen science and to engage with library users. The project includes an embeddable Project Finder that libraries can implement on their websites.

The AMAR Community-Based Doula Program is a program of The 86s Home Society of New Jersey in Trenton, New Jersey. AMAR is grounded in the HealthConnect One HC1 evidence-based community doula curriculum and advised by a team of New Jersey medical providers. AMAR offers at least four prenatal visits and four postpartum visits for each mother enrolled in the program. The AMAR program serves 75 pregnant and postpartum 92, doulas and doula trainees per year.

The Vermont Department of Libraries VTLIB seeks funding to make local, state, and federal government healthcare information accessible to all Vermonters. This project aligns with the departments LSTA goals, strategic plan, and Vermont gubernatorial goals of improving the quality of life for Vermonts most vulnerable populations. The department has focused on three public health areas demonstrating a need for strengthened support: 1 gerontology; 2 95 mental health; and 3 cannabis literacy.

La Casa de Salud LCS is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of the Hispanic community by providing health information and resources and by facilitating the provision of health services through community health workers CHWs. Over the last two years, LCS has educated and trained approximately 30 CHWs and strategically placed them where they can serve the greater Richmond Hispanic community. LCS has provided a variety of services to over 1,000 individuals during this time.

This project will provide resources and educational opportunities that highlight the benefits of collaboration between public health organizations and public libraries. Phase I of the project will encompass two steps: 1. assessment and 2. resource identification.

Phase II of the Information Collaboration project will focus on developing and implementing a training and outreach program that targets the public library and public health workforce. The goal of the program will be to foster sustainable partnerships aimed at improving the publics health through information access. The development of this project will be informed by the data collected and analyzed during the Phase I project.

This project will support the mission of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, specifically to advance the progress of medicine and improve the public health by providing all U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information.

The primary goal of this Alaska Medical Library project is to improve the quality of life and health for citizens of Alaska by providing information outreach services to the healthcare workforce, especially in 95 areas, over a five-year period from May 2016 through April 2021. Additionally, AML hopes to expand outreach to include public schools and public libraries to teach and promote health literacy in the communities we visit.

Innovate to Communicate: Health Literacy Workforce Development aims to educate frontline clinicians and hospital leaders in the knowledge and application of health literacy practices. By equipping clinicians and leaders with the tools and resources they need to take action, Innovate to Communicate will promote the health literate organization in North Texas hospitals.

This nursing education conference is an ideal time to promote the awareness of the Medline Plus, Medline, and NIH resources to these nursing students. They are consumer health 12s and need to be aware of reliable sources of health information. The Pennsylvania Library Association's PA Forward project endorses the promotion of health literacy in the academic environment as well as to the 125.

Instruction is a growing responsibility of academic health sciences librarians, but we rarely have the time, space, and community to take our ideas and notes from the previous year, combine it with the literature, and brainstorm with colleagues. This grant will fund a much-needed opportunity for librarians doing instruction in health sciences, at academic institutions to step away from their day-to-day responsibilities and instead work on instruction-based projects that have built up over the year and intentionally focus on refining their pedagogy.

The Cranston Public Library's mission is to bring people, information, and ideas together to enrich lives and strengthen the community. Our community includes a growing number of immigrants and new citizens who are facing language and technology barriers when it comes to acquiring health information and resources. In order to lower that barrier, the library is proposing new technology enhancements in order to communicate health information to its users, with a particular emphasis on ESL learners, through interactive visuals.

The Interactive Health Information Kiosks in Richland County Libraries project will consist of four phases in order to establish and sustain the installment of interactive health information kiosks at Richland Countys local libraries, as well as educating the public on identifying relevant, accurate, and appropriate health research. The first phase of this project will be to obtain and install health information education kiosks at all 9 Richland County libraries.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health literacy among its public populations by developing an interactive and traveling exhibit devoted to health literacy and consumer health with online video tutorial components of MedlinePlus and other NLM resources made available on the PRC YouTube Channel. They plan to debut the Interactive Health Literacy and Consumer Health Exhibit Exhibit and promote the video tutorials at the annual 3rd Avenue Street Fair in Manhattan.

The Myra Mahon Patient Resource Center PRC staff propose to promote awareness and improved health literacy among its public populations by developing an interactive and traveling exhibit devoted to health literacy and consumer health with online video tutorial components of MedlinePlus and other NLM resources made available on the PRC YouTube Channel. They plan to debut the Interactive Health Literacy and Consumer Health Exhibit Exhibit and promote the video tutorials at the annual 3rd Avenue Street Fair in Manhattan.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain state of the art technology in the science and health/wellness classrooms grades K-4 at St. Joseph School. The school serves PK-grade 8 totaling 245 students. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase additional tablets for student use in grades K-4. Using tablets, students will be able to share and compare their work from multiple devices at the same time as a projector for all to see.

Dental caries i.e., tooth decay can cause severe pain that prevents 86 from eating and sleeping. Despite the significant negative impact that caries can have on 86s well-being, health professionals often do not provide families with the information they need to keep their 86 cavity-free. A major contributor to this gap in preventive dental care is a lack of awareness on the part of healthcare professionals about the child dental health resources that are available through the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine NNLM.

The project will provide an opportunity for a cohort of participants in the NNLM MAR region to develop a broader awareness of health sciences librarianship. The project involves two parts: 1 an online course; and 2 a virtual shadowing mentoring program. The 4-week online course will provide an overview of health sciences librarianship, taught from the perspective of librarians who came to health sciences librarianship from other fields. The course is organized in four modules, each based on a scenario from the health sciences.

The purpose of this proposed project is to develop an online course that teaches public library staff to have a deeper understanding of citizen science programming and crowdsourcing concepts and learn how to bring citizen science activities and programs to their communities through a partnership with the team at scistarter.org.

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of excellence, Allen currently serves 625 students in seven health programsnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, and occupational therapyranging from associates to doctorates.

Allen College, UnityPoint Health is a regionally-accredited, private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Waterloo, Iowa. Built on a tradition of more than 90 years of healthcare education, Allen currently serves 661 students in eight health programs ranging from associates to doctoratesnursing, public health, radiography, sonography, medical laboratory science, medical imaging, occupational therapy, and health education.

WebLitLegit aims to teach 87 to obtain reliable, usable health information from the Internet.

The project will promote the opening of the new library space would build on the momentum already generated this year and extend the reach of library service to team members not currently aware of its benefits. An additional emphasis on promoting free resources from the National Library of Medicine during the opening day event will further give team members tools to support their patients and thus improve health outcomes across the institution.

Last year the JPS Health Network Medical Library joined with University of North Texas Health Science Center Library. As the only library network of this type in North Texas, this unique connection allowed staff from both libraries to assess the needs of the hospital library and expand services in a variety of meaningful ways. With new staff and a renovated library space the JPS Health Network Medical Library will cap an exciting year in the summer of 2018. In preparation for this milestone, the Library plans to announce its presence widely to the staff and patients.

Lyme Disease LD is an emerging epidemic in the Upper Midwest. Early identification of LD symptoms is paramount to effective medical treatment; knowledge of symptoms, how LD spreads, and getting immediate medical treatment is the best prevention. This NLM proposal introduces the Ixodes Outreach Project IOP. IOPs goal is to promote awareness of health concerns associated with LD and tick-borne diseases in northeast Minnesotas isolated Arrowhead region. This will be accomplished through educational activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience.

The goal of this project is to build a collection of graphic medicine novels for community outreach to a nearby local homeless shelter and to enrich the education of medical students, physicians, and patients. Effective communication is achieved through what Michael J. Green and Kimberly Myers call graphic pathography, personal narratives describing the experience of being ill. Like other forms of fiction, they encourage empathy and lessen feelings of isolation in the reader.

JFCS respectfully requests funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM Middle Atlantic Region MAR to support the public health education activities of Jewish Family and 86s Service of Greater Philadelphias JFCS Hoarding Support Program, an innovative model of hoarding treatment and intervention.

J.O.I. Community Outreach proposes to campaign for health literacy through coordinated effort of media, workshops, service providers and enetertainemtn. Bringing the community out each week during the summer to participate in health activities, resources, information and workshops. Our community events garner tremendous numbers of people every week, on average 1500 people for 8 weeks.

The purpose is to increase the access of Spanish-speaking Latinos in the Kansas City area to reliable health information in their language, inform them about existing resources, and develop a sense of trust between them, the medical community and librarians.

Background Based on the data collected through the key informant interviews conducted during Q1 and Q2 the need for teen education in the area of sexual health, specifically for HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases was identified. The data also suggested an need for education about how to evaluate online health information for accuracy. The following proposal outlines a plan to implement a focused outreach event to train Boston area leaders who work with 87 to learn about HPV and other STDs and how to evaluate online health information for accuracy.