Since 2009, the Health 12s from the Northeast and Eastcentral PA AHECs have been involved in the development and implementation of a curriculum designed to train Community Health Workers CHWs. CHWs contribute to improved health outcomes and quality of life by acting as liaisons or "connectors" to needed healthcare and other community-based services and resources. To date, AHEC has trained nearly 170 individuals to work in settings such as hospitals, clinics and other community-based organizations.

Over the past fourteen years, the TEACH Academy Teachers Exploring and Advocating Careers in Health has provided teachers, guidance counselors and health professionals with resources to educate students and patients of all ages and about the rapidly-changing field of healthcare and careers in the field. The 2017 TEACH Academy will expand the curriculum to include biomedical and health information from the National Library of Medicine. MAR staff will be invited to present a workshop session, and resources and information will be included in the materials given to TEACH participants.

The aim of this project is to enhance access to health information for users of the Matthews-Fuller Library Health Sciences Library MFHSL at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center DHMC when the information desk is not staffed. The desk is staffed Monday-Friday from 8 AM until 5 PM, but the space is open to and widely used by medical students, residents, nurses, and DHMC providers 24/7. This project consists of two initiatives.

The Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell library, in collaboration with the medical school and Northwell Health research branch, the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, will implement a local instance of the open source data catalog created by the NYU Health Sciences Library. The pilot project will meet the immediate need for the research enterprise of a frontend interface for discoverability of the data located in the Feinstein Institute public data repository.

The Pacific College of Oriental College PCOM proposes a collaborative health information outreach project to increase awareness and access of NLM/NIH online resources by providing training workshops for consumers and health professionals in San Diego. The goal is to extend access to health care information through training workshops for all residents, with emphasis on reaching multicultural, diverse and minority populations at their communities, and to improve the library's technologies needed to conduct the project.

The overall purpose of the Community Health Information Resource for 89 CHIRS is to strengthen and enhance Washoe County's provision of resources to its community by building a comprehensive, easy to navigate web-enabled compendium that consolidates all the scattered information that supports the needs of the aging population. CHIRS will deliver a program of instruction, both in-class and online, to demonstrate and promote the benefits of the website and illustrate the variety of beneficial online health information resources.

The overall goal of the proposed project is to strengthen and enhance access to local and national health information resources for the Washoe County, NV, community of 89 and senior caregivers, and to improve the capacity of regional caregivers to incorporate health information resources and health literacy best practices into patient care discharge planning and care management.

The goal of the proposed 'Essentials' workshop project is to guide older 88, as well as their families and caregivers, in the identification, evaluation, and use of essential online resources for informed consumer health decision-making. The Westchester Library System WLS will deliver a series of workshops to engage and educate older 88 in the use of online health information resources available from the National Library of MedicineNLM and other selected providers.

The goal of the proposed "Essentials" workshop project is to guide older 88, as well as their families and caregivers, in the identification, evaluation, and use of essential online resources for informed consumer health decision-making. The Westchester Library System WLS will deliver a series of workshops to engage and educate older 88 in the use of online health information resources available from the National Library of MedicineNLM and other selected providers.

As librarians and 133s alike grapple with new technologies and methodologies for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data, they must also grapple with corresponding ethical issues. In order to assist librarians with these concerns, we proposed to create educational materials to aid in the recognition, analysis, and solution of ethical issues, including but not limited to ethical data visualization, ethics related to data sharing, and ethical issues for machine learning methodologies.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer an 8-session program for 20 high-school girls enrolled in Eureka a 5-year program that involves at-risk girls in planned activities and education that increases their opportunity for success in STEM education and careers. This program will take place from November 2016 through February 2017, and will complement and enhance the Eureka curriculum. Each year, girls participate in Eureka for 4 weeks during the summer 160 hours followed by monthly meetings and workshops during the school year 30 hours.

This eight-week course is designed as an introduction for medical librarians to the practice of evidence-based medicine EBM. EBM means combining clinical expertise, the preferences and values of the patient and the best available evidence to make good patient care decisions. This course will focus on understanding the skills clinicians need to practice EBM, such as how to formulate relevant questions, efficiently search medical literature and evaluate the evidence for validity and applicability to the patient.

The Annual Youth Summer Camp Interactive Health Information Program Presentation is designed to be an interactive and engaging presentation for youth ages 6-17 that will help them in accessing health information. Our presentation will be targeted toward minority and underserved youth that live in 95 areas in North and South Carolina. Our presentation will primarily give information both digitally and otherwise, on how to access reliable health-related information from reputable and legitimate sources on the world wide web.

Exhibit at the Broward Aging Network Conference, May 22-23, 2018

South Carolina Chapter of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities SCAAIDD Annual Meeting, October 2-5, 2018 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Summer Youth Camp / 135 Twin Lakes Dr. / Ward, SC 29166 / July 11-14, 2018

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA; Annual Conference; September 11-14, 2018

Exhibit at the 24th Annual 95 Health Association of Tennessee Conference

Exhibit at the Remote Area Medical RAM Volunteer Corps at Gray, TN Nov 2-4, 2018

Exhibit at Remote Area Medical RAM Volunteer Corps in Wise, VA July 2018

Exhibit at the Mississippi Library Association Annual Conference

Exhibit at the Tennessee Public Health Association 2018 Annual Conference

Exhibit at the North Carolina Veterinary Conference

This exhibit takes place at 95 Health Association of Tennessee RHAT annual conference, November 2020, Music Road Hotel and Inn, Pigeon Forge, TN 37863. RHAT provides an opportunity for clinicians, 12s, and nonprofits to gather annually and discuss topics and legislation that impact 95 health on a state and national level. It provides networking and education opportunities for librarians to promote NNLM products as well as searching practices to physicians working in 95 areas, public health workers, and 12s who attend on behalf of their school systems.

The NLM traveling exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill Conceived and Well-Drawn! will be hosted at the East Tennessee State University Medical Library in Johnson City, TN from April 29, 2019-June 8, 2019. The exhibit consists of 6 banners on stands. From the exhibit's website: "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! explores an increasingly popular, yet little-known literary field that presents personal illness narratives and health information through the medium of comics.

The University of Florida Health Science Center Libraries will host the NLM traveling exhibition, For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform from January 21March 2, 2019.

The FIU Library has a typical weekly gate count of 35,644 visitors https://library.fiu.edu/about/statistics, with the display located at the entrance, all visitors will view both exhibits and gain access to handouts and other NLM materials. FIU is situated in a large metropolitan area with a diverse student body: 61% Hispanic, 15% White non-Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% 110 or Pacific Islander, and 7% other minority group https://www.fiu.edu/about/index.html.

Exhibit at the 2020 South Carolina Human Service Providers Annual Conference. This conference is expected to attract Department of Disability and Special Needs Administrators, professionals, teachers, direct care professionals, advocates, and individuals with disabilities and their families. Projected attendance is 400-450.

Exhibit at the The National Conference on Allied Health Education hosted by the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools ABHES in Houston, TX

This project is an exhibit of informational resources from NLM and other authoritative resources from government, professional associations, and trusted non-profits. This exhibit will be held at the Tennessee Public Health Association TPHA Annual Conference, taking place from September 9-11, 2020 at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs Hotel, 700 Cool Springs Road, Franklin, TN 37067.