Past Funded Projects

Bridgeville Public Library will host training for its staff led by health professionals that will equip staff members with the skills that they need to better serve patrons in the community who are experiencing mental health and emotional issues. One training will have a social work element, giving staff valuable tools to utilize in their everyday patron interactions, another will deal with mental health issues.

To support community health nurses across the State of Nevada by providing instruction and promotion of freely available health information, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM resources. This award would allow us to re-visit the nursing clinics across the state. Funding will be used for visits to gather input from the nurses and to strengthen our online portal that was developed during the first year of funding from NNLM PSR. This project will promote access to quality information and provide greater support for 95 care providers in Nevada.

15-40 Connection is teaching audiences in high schools, universities, hospitals and corporations how to use personal health awareness to detect cancer earlier and improve cancer survival rates for everyone. Our partnership with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine has allowed for the incorporation of NNLM/MedLine Plus resources into our 3 Steps Detect education, providing reliable and up-to-date information to further empower patients with guidance regarding doctor/patient relationships, symptoms, confidentiality and patient's rights.

The Savitt Medical Library will be a host site for the National Library of Medicine's NLM Native Voices Traveling Exhibit. The Library will use funding to work with Native American communities in Northern Nevada to plan events surrounding the exhibit, including an opening reception and a speaker event. The speaker event will be on 'Food Sovereignty and Native American Nutrition.' These events and the exhibit will be promoted to local Native American communities, the University community, and to Northern Nevada clinicians.

Lets Talk Health: Visual Images for Healthy Living is designed to serve vulnerable populations for low health literacy defined as populations to include older 88, immigrant populations, minority populations, and low income populations National Network of Libraries of Medicine, n.d.. Healthcare staff bear the responsibility for improving health literacy among those they serve. TCPH is partnering with three organizations that serve the target population and to increase their health literacy.

The Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System CEFLS in Plattsburgh, New York is seeking an award to raise awareness regarding the topic of domestic violence among residents in Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties. CEFLS plans to collaborate with STOP Domestic Violence to coordinate a series of events in our shared service area.

Girls Inc. of Worcester seeks support from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to deliver a 9 month Healthy Communities Mapping Project. This mapping project will empower 90 high school students enrolled in Eureka!, our 5-year STEM science, technology, engineering, and math college and career readiness program, to discover, map out, and engage with health resources in the Greater Worcester community, using innovative technology.

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.

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.

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.

This project will offer mobile health literacy training to library staff and the public throughout the five county 95 area of Western New York State that experiences significant health and economic disparities. The Sourthern Tier Library System serves 48 public libraries, their staff, and trustees. Our library consultants provide professional development opportunities, training, and resources to enable libraries to better serve their communities.

The proposed project aims to promote wellness in the Show Low, Arizona, area by providing resources for healthy cooking, exercise classes, hands-on classes, and forming a 'Healthy Living' club. The Show Low Public Library will make available for check-out a variety of kitchen equipment needed to encourage healthy cooking. Objectives include developing a Healthy Living Club for families and young 86. This club will provide information on how to be more active, healthy recipes that are kid-friendly, and exercise opportunities.

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