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

Health Information outreach and exhibiting in the greater Detroit area for underserved and underrepresented populations. *Host NLM traveling exhibit Confronting Violence, Improving 92's Lives March 18-April 22, 2017 at the Shiffman Medical Library. *World AIDS Day Detroit:

The UND Health Sciences Library has assigned clinical campus librarians to work in four quadrants of the state. The four clinical campus librarians work in the cities of Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot, and serve as the designated library contacts for healthcare professionals and consumers located within those quadrants. The Library's Interim Director and these four clinical campus librarians will form the core project group that will plan and complete these outreach activities

Exhibit and outreach at the Delivering the Vision of Comprehensive Health Services in 95 Iowa Annual meeting of Rebalancing Health Care in the Heartland sponsored by the UIowa Health Sciences Policy Council and the annual meeting of the Iowa 95 Health Association

Exhibiting and outreach throughout Illinois via University of Illinois at Chicago library sites. *Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture NLM Traveling Exhibit Peoria is an excellent venue for this exhibit since the 101 community has Peoria-based support and/or service groups serving the 15 counties in Region 2 as defined by Illinois HIV Care Connect, funded by the Illinois Department of Public Health IDPH.

Outreach is an integral part of The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library and this area of service is overseen by Judith A. Wiener, MA, MLIS, Assistant Director for Collections and Outreach. Several programs and activities are planned throughout the year in order to connect the public with needed reliable health information resources. Attention is also paid to help support professionals in providing such information to their clients, patients, and customers.

The GMR Outreach Award allows the Outreach Librarian of the Ruth Lilly Medical Library to attend multiple events as an exhibitor, pays for a small portion of The Outreach Librarian's salary, and pays for minimal related administrative costs. Events are hosted by Outreach Librarian and other volunteers from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library. A booth and table are rented. Space is hosted with friendly faces, a MacBook Air & Wifi for live demonstrations of NLM databases, handouts and customized posters. Classes are taught by the Outreach Librarian and other volunteers.

Libraries Without Borders BSF has developed a program that expands opportunities for the poorest individuals and families. BSF will partner with the Brainerd Public Library BPL to install e-libraries and build libraries at laundromats in low-income and underserved communities.

The Iowa Family Leadership Training Institute IFLTI is a four-session, in-person training designed to develop the leadership skills of emerging family leaders who are parents or primary caregivers of Iowa 86 and youth with special health care needs CYSHCN. The institute is sponsored by the Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics. The Division also includes Child Health Specialty Clinics CHSC, Iowa's Maternal and Child Health Title V Program for CYSHCN.

The Outreach Services Department of the St. Charles Public Library will partner with Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University to develop and deliver presentations on healthcare and medical topics at senior facilities in the St. Charles, Illinois community. As members of the Library's Outreach Services Department, we visit nine senior facilities, three homecare facilities, and fifteen homebound patrons a month. Outreach Services also provides weekly, biweekly, and monthly programs at seven senior facilities, engaging over two hundred and fifty patrons per month.

This grant will allow Lakeville Area Public School staff to work with Community Blueprint to form a youth action team, and develop an interactive and informative marijuana campaign. From the name and logo, to the tone and messaging, and to the in-school outreach activities, we'll include youth in the entire process of building a marijuana prevention campaign for Lakeville high school students.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Health Sciences Library HSL, part of the University Libraries, will implement a training program for library staff, students, and the public using and adapting the NNLM Engage for Health curriculum, and the Middle Atlantic Region of NNLMs class, entitled, Patient Empowerment: Using Health Information Resources to Improve Health Communication.

University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library staff with other members of the Knoxville Area Health Science Libraries Consortium will provide consumer health information packets to patients attending three Remote Area Medical RAM clinic events in East Tennessee. They will target the clinic sites closest to Knoxville. Librarians shall include surveys in the packets to be handed out or mailed to health consumers. They will also ask for the patients zip code and county. They may also evaluate consumers for health literacy level at the events.

This project proposes to develop a mental health literacy program designed for the pediatric patients in a crisis center in Florida. This program will use four tracks of bibliotherapy texts to deliver personalized bibliotherapy services to build mental health literacy skills Cannon, 2018.

In the past several years Appalachian Regional Library public libraries of Ashe, Watauga, & Wilkes Counties, North Carolina has emphasized health & wellness topics in its programming. Last year, we implemented our 1st Good Neighbor Project, Cracked, Not Broken. This project combined community read activities & community engagement activities with the goal of educating people about suicide prevention & providing avenues of engagement for those interested in helping combat suicide & mental illness.

Oftentimes academic universities, public libraries, and churches serve as cultural centers to communities that offer a variety of workshops to promote wellness and health awareness.

Health literacy is a critical pathway to better health outcomes. Yet for countless low-income families, health resources like those on MedlinePlus are simply out of reach. Some are unaware of its existence while others lack the digital skills that enable access to the materials. By meeting people where they arewhile waiting at the laundromatLibraries Without Borders LWB strives to empower low-income families with the information they seek in a manner that suits their everyday schedule.

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 Healths precision medicine research program are examples of newer approaches to include 95, underrepresented, or ignored populations in the community in clinical research studies.

The Augusta-Richmond Community Health Outreach Project will provide reliable and free access health information to residents within the Richmond County. Working with 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, Alzheimers 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.

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.

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.

The purpose of Project TORDS is to increase health technology literacy access in 95 and underserved communities in southern West Virginia. TORDS will focus on disenfranchised and marginalized communities with limited access to internet and smart phone connections. The program will provide 10 internet-accessed computers in McDowell and Mercer Counties and provide two days a week per county for communities to access the internet. SCED will provide two hours per day/per site for internet access training.

Our plans are to educate and train as many Senior Citizens by pairing them with Teenagers to teach them on how use the Internet/Computer to find online reliable health information using MedlinePlus.gov. This will help bridge the gap between Technology, Teenagers 87 and Senior Citizens.

Building on two successful years of food literacy programs in partnership with public libraries and other community organizations statewide, the South Carolina State Library would like to expand outreach to small 95 communities by using local trusted health partners and small transportable kitchen kits to demonstrate healthy cooking and living strategies for people of all ages.

The Orlando Health Literacy Ambassador will include: Train-the-Trainer projects using NLM resources that enhance the skills of public library/organization staff and other consumer health information intermediaries to train a target population on locating and evaluating health information within Orlando and surrounding communities.

Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 is a state-wide educational program focused on improving oral health care for 86 by providing education to primary care providers, facilitating medical-dental partnerships and enhancing oral health literacy for the community. In 2015, Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 developed a new health literacy resource - the Oral Health Story Kits - in partnership with Reading Public Library with the primary goal of providing basic oral health education to libraries which would help encourage good oral health habits for 86 and families in the their community.

The Pennsylvania Office of 95 Health PORH is funded by the DentaQuest Institute DQI to deliver the Medical, Oral Expanded MORE Care Collaborative to eight federally-designated 95 Health Clinics RHCs in Pennsylvania and one clinic anticipated to become an RHC in the near future. The Oral Health Education for the Medical Professional and Patient project will facilitate the current project to be expanded to reach more RHCs while further educating medical providers on the oral health resources available to them through NN/LM.

The Oklahoma Healthy Aging Initiative OHAI is a program of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Geriatric Medicine. With five Centers of Healthy Aging across the state of Oklahoma, OHAI educates older Oklahomans, Caregivers and Providers in all 77 counties. The Northeast Center of Healthy Aging NE CHA based in Tulsa and was the first of the OHAI centers to open in 2012.

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center, part of the Department of Applied Health Science, School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington, proposes to develop an e-resources database devoted solely to the topic of the current opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on Indiana, that will feature as subthemes from the homepage educational materials on how to judge the quality of health information resources and links to highlighted NLM materials.

The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, BHC known for its rich history, has opened its borders to visitors previously unable to share in adventures. Adaptive outdoor programs in the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor forge successful partnerships with multiple state, civic, nonprofits and private organizations. Adaptive cycling events welcome those with visual and cognitive impairments, the aged, and younger 88 with a varied assortment of mobility limitations. Participants set out, some with trepidation, and return with wide and infectious smiles.