Past Funded Projects

This project will host a speaker series featuring two local mental health professionals who will offer presentations on anxiety and depression. The series will include six sessions aimed at different age groups: teenager/young 88, 88, and 89.

This project will provide funding to allow the Walter W. Stiern Library at California State University, Bakersfield CSUB, to support the RN Explorers Program. The RN Explorers Program is part of the Boy Scouts of America Learning for Life and career education for young men and 92 ages 14 through 20.

The Expanding Research Data Management Proposal seeks to offer training on the research data management lifecycle to librarians and 133s. The training courses will be offered by librarians at the Health Sciences Libraries HSL at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities who have a breadth and depth of knowledge to support this work, with experience related to data curation, data management, federal funding compliance, and research reproducibility See Appendix for Description of Setting and Summary of Librarian Expertise.

This award supports an additional travel day on trips scheduled for Assistant Professor Sigrid Brudie of the Alaska Medical Library for public library training sessions. The desired outcome is that residents will be able to identify reliable and appropriate health information sources to meet their needs, and know that their local library and librarians are an access point for these resources.

Expose the Hill County community and students to different fields in Healthcare via a talk by a keynote speaker and panel of reps from non-traditional health occupations

The exhibit will have trifolds on NLM mobile, Pubmed Health, Pubmed, Medline Plus, Toxtown, and other pertinent materials. A portion of the handouts will focus on the NLM materials that support education of youth and 87.

Funding will directly support honorariums and/or travel expenses of instructors who will teach MLA CE classes for the 2018 MAC Annual Meeting in Ocean City, MD.

The Public Health Museum is a non-profit educational and cultural museum located in a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the grounds of Tewksbury Hospital founded in 1854. The mission of the Public Health Museum is two-fold: to educate the public about the achievements and contributions of public health in preventing disease and improving the health of individuals and communities in Massachusetts and worldwide; and to inspire students, 133s, health care workers and 131s to build upon the past and continue to advance the future of public health.

This project will establish health sciences library services across a 4-hospital affiliation in 95, underserved Coos County in northern New Hampshire. Among the four North Country Healthcare hospitals the affiliation, Littleton Regional is the lone hospital with a full service health sciences library. The primary goal of this project is to maintain and enhance the quality of health care in Northern New Hampshire by providing health professionals at the North Country Healthcare hospitals timely access to reliable health information resources.

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.

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

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.

To enable Southern Chapter/MLA to support and host multiple CE courses and keynote speakers during the annual meeting in Orlando, FL, Oct. 25-28, 2018. The funding will help defray the expense of bringing in CE instructors and thus allow SC/MLA to lower the CE registration costs for attendees. These courses will also have MLA approved CE points offered for members to count toward AHIP certification. The Chapter has invited Derrick Jefferson of American University in Washington, D.C. to come speak on the last day of the conference - Sunday, October 28th, 2018.

Technology with the Times will allow more access to technology improving the knowledge of staff, patients, and parents/caregivers. This will improve the treatment of patients, the sharing of information, and facilitate increased collaboration and education of staff, patients, and families. Through a home program development, work with families, and staff training information from the National Library of Medicine will be more efficiently and effectively shared. This combined with our knowledge and expertise in occupational, physical and speech and language therapy to help those we serve.