Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Training for practice in 95 and underserved areas using NLM databases and virtual reality technology

Stated in the mission and goals of the Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine ARCOM is the desire to recruit and train medical students who are focused on service to the underserved. This aim is important because Arkansas is one of the lowest ranking states in physician-to-population ratio.

May 11, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Training and Coaching for creating easy-to-read health materials for New Mexico populations

The purpose of this project is to begin developing the health literacy skills necessary for incorporating guidelines into existing or newly developed materials,including by not limited to written publications. Through self-selection, health care professionals, community health 12s, and others who work directly with informational delivery to diverse audiences will be afforded the opportunity to participate in an introductory workshop on health literacy and developing easy-to-read text-based health information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Training and Coaching for Creating Easy-to-Read Health Materials for New Mexico Populations

The purpose of this project is to begin developing the health literacy skills necessary for incorporating guidelines into existing or newly developed materials, including by not limited to written publications. Through self-selection, health care professionals, community health 12s, and others who work directly with informational delivery to diverse audiences will be afforded the opportunity to participate in an introductory workshop on health literacy and developing easy-to-read text-based health information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Training Addiction-Related Treatment Centers on Promising Practices for LGBT Care

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will provide training to five addiction treatment centers in eastern Pennsylvania on addiction-related care for the LGBT community, as well as connect the treatments to resources available through MedlinePlus.

November 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Training Addiction-Related Inpatient Treatment Centers on Promising Practices for LGBT Care

In alignment with the goals of the National Network of Libraries of Medicines 2017-2027 strategic plan, Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will design and present personalized and actionable health information to inpatient addiction treatment and recovery providers on promising practices for treating LGBT clients, an underrepresented population experiencing profound disparities. This project will maximize NNLMs impact through enhanced engagement and anticipate the needs of a marginalized population LGBT people seeking addiction treatment.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Training 88tal Health Outpatient Clinics on Promising Practices for LGBT Care

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center will develop a program that provides training to the staff, clinicians, and administrators of 6 outpatient mental health clinics in Eastern Pennsylvania on promising practices for providing affirming mental health care to the LGBT community. The training will encompass implications for practice, minority stressors, barriers to care, and the increased rates of trauma within the LGBT population.

May 26, 2020 - April 30, 2021
TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma

Project: TORDS-Technology Outreach to Reduce health Disparities and Stigma is a multi-faceted project designed in 2012. This program designed to address the health needs of 95 communities in Southern WV and Southwestern Virginia while providing HIV information during health education for health disparities and the social determinates of health that directly affect 95, poverty-stricken communities with special emphasis on Health technology and communities of color.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
This is your project

The NNLM Web Services office NWSO supports the Network of the National Library of Medicine's web infrastructure and associated web technologies. This is an example project that demonstrates how NNLM subawardees can report on project activities.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The UT Healthier Youth Recipe and Resource Booklet

The UT Health San Antonio Libraries serve as a Resource Library of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine for the South Central area of Texas. The major health concerns facing residents of South Central Texas continue to include diabetes, communicable diseases, cancer, and obesity. It is commonly accepted that health literacy rates remain low in the U.S. population at large but at even lower rates in underserved, Hispanic, and immigrant populations, which are large populations in South Central Texas.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
The UT Healthier Youth Recipe and Resource Booklet

In 2017, UT Health San Antonio Libraries received an NN/LM SCR Express Outreach Award to provide the Youth Health Literacy Challenge, a program in which activity logs and calendars were distributed to youth participating in the North East Independent School District NEISD Summer Food Service Program, or Summer Feeding Program, at four San Antonio Public Library SAPL branches.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
The use of Virtual Reality Anatomy Resources in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology Education

The Penn State Hazleton Library and Department of Biology propose to utilize Virtual Reality VR Anatomy hardware and software in undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology education. This project will provide students with access to innovative technology enhancing their learning experiences. VR hardware and 3D VR anatomy software will be made available to health sciences students enrolled in anatomy and physiology courses.

May 4, 2018 - April 30, 2019
The use of Virtual Reality Anatomy Resources in Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology Education

The Penn State Hazleton Library and Department of Biology propose to utilize Virtual Reality VR Anatomy hardware and software in undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology education. This project will provide students with access to innovative technology enhancing their learning experiences. VR hardware and 3D VR anatomy software will be made available to health sciences students enrolled in anatomy and physiology courses.

May 4, 2018 - April 30, 2019
The Superwoman Project - North Carolina

The Superwoman Project is Black Girl Health Foundations BGHF newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child mortality, parenting, mental and holistic health, marriage and relationships, leadership, and navigating the workforce. In 2020, The Superwoman Project was developed as a pilot which was launched in Houston, TXa city that has struggled badly with mitigating its Coronavirus cases.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The Superwoman Project

Mothers Matter is Black Girl Health Foundations newest programming and has been developed to provide support to moms in every aspect of their lives, including: new motherhood, child mortality, parenting, mental and holistic health, marriage and relationships, leadership, and navigating the workforce. Mothers Matter is presenting a pilot titled The Superwoman Project, which is designed to help 92 of color cope with the needs and challenges of mothering in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The Southern CT State University-MultiCultural Health Leaders: Educating older 88 on improving their health through health literacy and Salsa and Cha-Cha'ing their way to decreasing the risk of dementia

The Southern CT State University- MultiCultural Health Leaders MCHL, an established university student organization composed of public health and nursing students, requests $10,000 from the National Libraries of Medicine- New England Regions NLM-NER to advance health information resources in community/church centers throughout New Haven and Fairfield Counties. The primary goal of this project is to advance health information resources in Minority 88 and encourage the use of reliable NML databases when searching for health information.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The San Francisco Bay Areas Response to the AIDS Epidemic: Digitizing and Providing Universal Access to Historical AIDS Records

The Archives and Special Collections Archives department of the University of California, San Francisco UCSF Library, seeks a support from the NNLM to digitize approximately 43,000-45,000 pages from 15 archival collections related to the early days of the AIDS epidemic in the San Francisco Bay Area and make them widely accessible to the public on the Internet. This new digital collection will address the gaps that exist in relation to materials chronicling the experience and struggles of communities of color and marginalized communities in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The Research Data Access and Preservation Association 2019 Summit

Subawardee requests to attend the Research Data Access and Preservation Association 2019 Summit at the University of Miami in May 2019. By attending this program subawardee will be able to learn more about new developments in research data management and will be better able to support their 133s in meeting NIH data management requirements. They also will be better able to provide instruction and workshops on good research data management practices.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
The New England Minority Nursing Collaborative: Promoting Access to Health Information.

Through an established network of seven New England chapters of the National Black Nurses Association, Inc. and the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, NNLM health information will disseminated using a multi-prong approach to engage community organizations, 126s and the 125.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The Interactive County-Level FAIR Health Data Web Tool for Librarians & Health Professionals Initiative

The Interactive County-Level Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable FAIR Health Data Web Tool for Librarians & Health Professionals Initiative will consist of 4 phases to establish and sustain an interactive web tool for librarians and local health professionals to access FAIR local community health assessment data. The purpose of this web tool is to provide librarians and local health professionals with a simple to operate and easy to understand user interface that utilizes raw county-level health data we have organized in our cloud-based database Amazon Aurora.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
The Incredible Edible Sound Garden

This project will be focused on ecological literacy, sensory therapy, and food literacy by enhancing hands-on experience of community members in the outdoor garden spaces located at the Kendale Lakes Branch Library. Funding for this project will allow for Citizens for a Better South Florida to purchase interactive musical instruments and vegetable garden materials for the library that will engage individuals to increase their health, well-being, and quality of life by actively participating in the outdoors.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
The HOPE Directory: Phase 2 Sustainability

The purpose of this web-based directory is to centralize access to reliable and authoritative local information, raise awareness of the role of resource libraries, and generate collaboration between organizations. By extending funding into a second year, Lewis Library will expand its growing number of resource entries, create a sustainable workflow for local organizations to input their own information, and generate educational materials to extend the reach of the directory.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
The Healthy Pet Project

The Healthy Pet Project HPP is a wonderful opportunity to educate our community participants in the skills needed to promote healthier lifestyles for their pets, themselves, and in the differences and similarities between pet and human health concerns. Most of our workshop participants are not aware of MedlinePlus for humans let alone its pet health section. Since MedlinePlus provides easy to use, reliable information in both areas, MedlinePlus information and training will be incorporated into the program.

September 1, 2016 - April 30, 2017
The H.O.P.E. Directory: Bringing Health Organizations Programs & Events Together

As a resource library for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine NNLM, the Gibson D. Lewis Health Science Library is proposing the establishment of a directory of local health organization's programs and events called the H.O.P.E. Directory. The establishment of this directory will help centralize access to reliable and authoritative local information, raise awareness of the role of resource libraries, and generate collaboration between organizations.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
The H.I.L.L. Health Information Literacy and Learning Project

The Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island Area Health Education Center will be implementing the H.I.L.L. Health Information Literacy and Learning Project as a proposal for this grant. The H.I.L.L. Project encompasses four main learning objectives that will be targeted to high school students in Brooklyn. At the end of the program students will have: 1. Increased knowledge about health information literacy by measuring their ability to access valid and reliable information, evaluate the information they find and recognize databases such as Medline plus as a quality source for healthcare information.

October 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
The GAR2N Project Growing Access to Resources Directed at Emotional Needs

The GAR2N Project Growing Access to Resources Directed at Emotional Needs is a health literacy intervention designed to improve emotional wellness knowledge and related communications skills among 88 in 95 settings. A team of health literacy experts will engage public health faculty and subject matter experts to develop a guide that will help individuals at various health literacy levels identify emotional wellness needs in themselves or others and develop the communication skills necessary to connect with appropriate sources of care.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
The fourth annual Health Fair at Pittston Memorial Library

NNLM contribution to Pittston Memorial Library Annual Health Fair. A community based event featuring many health partners including Early Intervention, Area Agency on Aging, PA Department of Health, Cawley Physical Therapy, Geisinger Hospital, CONCERN for Kids, Comfort Keepers, Gift of Life, Griswold Home Care, Pathway to Recovery, Live Well Luzerne, Family Service Association of NEPA, Northeast Highway Safety Program, Caregivers America, Bayada Home Health Care, Victims Resource Center, and many others. MedlinePlus and Research Program informational materials were distributed.

November 14, 2019 - November 14, 2019
The Family Table

The Family Table is a free health and nutrition program that teaches 2-3 families a week how to shop for, prepare and enjoy healthy meals together. Meeting four nights a week, the 88 in the program receive health and nutrition information while learning to cook four different meals. Meanwhile the 86 participate in health education activities during the free child care down the hall. At the end of each session, the whole family comes together to eat the meal together and talk about their day.

January 16, 2017 - April 30, 2017
The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program EPIGRAM: A Health Literacy Collection and Curriculum for the Coronavirus Pandemic

The COVID-19 NAVIGATOR Youth Empowerment Pilot Program EPIGRAM will enable schoolage students to access health information and resources to learn about the COVID-19 pandemic and how to engage with others during challenging times. Resources will be collected into a resource portal, with an underlying database structure using a detailed metadata schema where visitors can filter and query for videos based on audience, age-level, and topic.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The Community Health Information Connection

The Community Health Information Connection is designed to help 88 of all ages find trusted health information, play an active role in their health care decisions, and recognize the importance of naming a reliable person as health care proxy.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
The Clinic Waiting Room: an opportunity for medicine safety education using MedlinePlus resources

The provision of health education in clinic and physician office waiting rooms is not new; however, it is usually done by use of printed materials and/or passive video presentations. This project explores the feasibility of using live presentations to teach medication safety to parents and caregivers in the waiting area of an ambulatory care clinic at a busy 98 teaching hospital. The presentations will be given by a team of three university students using the library's portable Sharp Interactive Display System purchased with an earlier NNLM grant.

January 2, 2018 - April 30, 2018
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