Libraries Without Borders LWB will facilitate health literacy programs inside laundromats in 3 new counties in Minnesota as part of LWB's Wash & Learn Initiative WALI. Implementing partners include the Minnesota State Library Services, the Saint-Paul Public Library, the Anoka County Library, and the Scott County Library. LWB will write and publish 3 case studies drawn from each county, highlighting best practices, We will share these findings across Minnesota through LWB's partnership with the State Library Services.

The SIU Medical Library would like to purchase a 3D printer to create anatomical models for physicians and surgeons in SIU's 9 Clinical Science Departments in Springfield, IL. The models could be used prior to a procedure to train residents working in the clinics, to educate current medical school students about basic anatomy or particular health conditions, and to educate patients about their condition or promote wellness.

The eight Regional Medical Libraries RMLs of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM will partner with the Public Library Association PLA, a division of the American Library Association ALA, to increase the knowledge and skills of public library staff related to consumer health services.

Ni Mi Way means 'I am well' in the Ojibwe language; it has been chosen as this project's title to represent how it will foster empowerment of Bois Forte band members as Ojibwe people to become well-informed health consumers in control of their own wellbeing, and who in turn, will work to build a community strong in physical, emotional, mental, environmental and spiritual health. Ni Mi Way will help facilitate this process using its primary goal of ensuring that all band members have equal access to the wealth of credible online health information.

Despite improvements in medical care and efforts to make healthcare more affordable for all Americans, many still experience significant heath disparities that result in poor health outcomes. Racial and ethnic minorities, those in 95 and/or 98 areas, and those living in medically underserved areas have a high risk for experiencing health related disparities. Access to authoritative health information is vital to ensuring that individuals make appropriate health decisions and reduce their risk of experiencing poor health outcomes.

Effingham Public Library proposes to partner with the National Library of Medicine to provide 'Mobility for All' a monthly chair yoga training that will provide strengthening exercises that anyone can do as well as free resources from the National Library of Medicine like Exercise & Physical Activity: Your Everyday Guide from the National Institute on Aging, Getting Fit for Life and Go 4 Life Tip Sheets

In the interest of providing greater access to culturally competent and linguistically relevant health services to Minnesota's Latino communities, CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support developing, planning, and piloting a new Health and Wellbeing workshop series. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including southern Minnesota in areas such as Mankato, Willmar, and Austin.

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. IOP's goal is to promote awareness of health concerns associated with LD and tick-borne diseases in northeast Minnesota's isolated Arrowhead region. This will be accomplished through educational activities, a citizen-science program, and an undergraduate research experience.

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.

In Phase I of this project, University of North Dakota UND Health Sciences Library administered an information needs survey to unaffiliated North Dakota ND health care professionals in early 2017. The results provided useful information, and several individuals volunteered to provide additional information in follow-up interviews.

This project will improve health information literacy and access to mental health care by 1. Educating youth on how to access existing and new Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance DBSA youth mental health information posted on MedlinePlus, 2. Updating and translating into Spanish the existing DBSA youth mental health information that is posted on MedlinePlus and HealthReach, 3. Uploading new DBSA youth mental health information on MedlinePlus and HealthReach in both English and Spanish, 4.

This request seeks to fund the purchase and support of 20 iPads loaded with NLM consumer health information for 88 and 86. This proposed project is a partnership between the Charlevoix Public Library and the Munson Charlevoix Hospital Education Department. The iPads will be placed in the Library, the Hospital Wellness Workshop facility, in selected physicians' and school nurse offices and used in health clinics for 109s and community senior events. The Health Librarian will train the health professionals to use the iPads and review specific NLM databases.

Health Online: Finding Information You Can Trust' will help persons from underrepresented populations better access, identify and use reliable health information on the internet. With today's focus on obtaining information online or going mobile, there has become a digital divide for individuals with low health literacy, many of whom are represented among vulnerable populations, using online and other digital tools for health Pew, 2015.

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.

The Community Health in the Library CHIL: Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the city of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding Winnebago County community. UIC's Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, hereafter referred to as the Crawford Library, has had a long history of participating in community outreach, educating the community on the National Library Medicine NLM resources, and housing a Consumer Health Collection specifically for the community.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, led by the Greater Midwest Regions GMR will partner with the Association of 95 and Small Libraries ARSL, to increase the knowledge and skills of small and 95 public library staff related to consumer health services. The partnership will increase awareness of and participation in RML health information programming and outreach by small and 95 public libraries nationwide. ARSL provides the premier conference experience for over 500 librarians from small and 95 communities each fall.

We will focus on several different topics of 92's health, including heart disease, reproductive safety and health, depression and mental health, eating healthy, working out, cancer, yearly screenings, autoimmune disease, caring for a loved one, and self-defense. We will hold 9 sessions, each one hour long, once per month from August through April. We want the 92 in our communities to understand and value their own health and wellness.

Through interactive training workshops, we will assist a diverse group of community members in learning about their health conditions, understanding how to research health information using NLM and other internet resources, and learning how to prepare for a medical appointment including compiling a list of questions for their 126.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

REMARKS: Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serving as a partner outreach library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine's Greater Midwest Region office. Work includes instruction and promotion of National Library of Medicine resources on behalf of the office.

Perform outreach on behalf of the GMR as a partner outreach library.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR. REMARKS: Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

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Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.

Serve as a partner outreach library, offering training and promotion of NLM resources on behalf of the GMR.