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
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
BGH Connect

Black Girl Health Foundations BGH Connect is a digital campaign that includes upgrading the Black Girl Health BGH Membership Portal to include new content, and a social media marketing campaign designed to attract two hundred 200 new 92 in Designated Market Areas DMAs and 98 cores with high populations of African Americans; these shall encompass metropolitan Delaware Wilmington and Dover, New Jersey East Orange, Newark, and Trenton, New York Hempstead, New York, and Mount Vernon, and Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the Capitol Region Harrisburg.

June 9, 2020 - April 30, 2021
BGH Minds Matter D.C.

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter D.C. is a program in partnership with the Washington, D.C. Public Library System designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area collectively known as DMV and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. Black Girl Health BGH has already hosted a very successful iteration of Minds Matter in Harrrisburg, PA with the support of the Dauphin County Library System, and we have Minds Matter - NOLA scheduled to take place October 10th, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

June 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
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
NOLA Public Library Individualized Health Information Program 2020-2021

A health 12 will be hired by NOLA to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the New Orleans Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the NOLA Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
ABQ Public Library Individualized Health Information Program 2020-2021

A health 12 will be hired by ABQ to exclusively provide program support, extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the program, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and offer health information education to the Albuquerque Public Library community. The health 12 will be physically located within the ABQ Public Library and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator. Projects will be assigned by the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator with discrete timelines and deliverables denoted for each task.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
The BGHF Black Girl Health Foundation College Ambassador Program - Minds Matter NOLA Campaign

The Black Girl Health Foundations College Ambassador Program is on a mission to heal and empower 92 of color from low-income communities. African American 92 endure an immense amount of mental and emotional stresses that include racism, sexism, poverty, and pressure to embody the archetype of the Strong Black Woman. We are continuing our successful mental health campaign called Minds Matter by launching Minds Matter NOLA. The foundation of Minds Matter is built upon creating healthy minds by increasing mental health literacy and education.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region, 2016-2021

The goal of the NN/LM is to advance the progress of medicine and improve public health by providing U.S. health professionals with equal access to biomedical information and improving individual's access to information to enable them to make informed decisions about their health. As one of eight regional medical libraries in the country, NN/LM MAR will coordinate the operation of a Network of libraries and other organizations to carry out regional and national programs to meet the NN/LM mission.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Continuing education to Nurses in Northern Nevada; Promoting NLM and other freely available quality online resources

This project has been funded to support nurses in Washoe County by providing continuing education classes. This instruction will focus on freely available health information resources and will promote the use of National Library of Medicine NLM resources, as well as other authoritative resources. Courses will be developed for both online self-paced, asynchronous and in-person instruction, and both formats will provide CE credits to nurses.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
CLUES Health and Wellbeing Workshops in 95 Minnesota

In the interest of providing greater access to culturally competent and linguistically relevant health services to Minnesotas Latino communities, CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support the development, planning, and execution of our Health and Wellbeing workshop series. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including 95 southern Minnesota in areas such as Worthington, Mankato, Willmar, and Austin.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Central PA FUN Food: Understanding Nutrition Initiative

The Central PA FUN Food: Understanding Nutrition Initiative will be focused on improving health literacy around food & nutrition in six counties in central Pennsylvania. Based on a partnership between the District Library Centers in Altoona and Johnstown, this project would serve residents of Indiana, Cambria, Somerset, Blair, Bedford & Huntingdon Counties. The Initiative has two main areas of focus: improving access to quality cooking & nutrition information & resources; and increasing family nutrition literacy.

November 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Educating Healthcare Professionals and the Sighted Community of Worcester County on the Health Disparities among VIPs 2020-2021

This project will engage medical professionals in various specialties, improving their health literacy and reducing health disparity for individuals who are blind or who suffer with low vision VIPs. Current medical practice protocols and patient interactions are many times lacking in correct etiquette for the individuals in this population group.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Kissing bug and Chagas disease outreach in the southern United States: empowering the public and health care workers along the US-Mexico border

The Texas A&M University Kissing Bug Citizen Science Program will be revised, and expanded resources will be made available for public and health care worker promotora education around kissing bugs, Chagas disease, and associated health topics. Assessment of online resource usage and evaluations of promotora training workshops will be used to quantify the impact of our program on improving promotora knowledge.

September 1, 2019 - April 30, 2021
Engaging with Health through Virtual Lectures and Wellness Programs

The library will develop and present virtual health programming to the community consisting of a monthly health lecture by a local doctor or professional, and weekly movement-based and mental wellness programming. This project will improve the access of the public to health information and aid them in making informed health decisions by providing easy virtual access to trained health professionals and health-based programming

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Valley 88tal Health First Aid Responders

This project will provide Shenango Valley residents with the resources and instruction necessary to become mental health first aid responders. The project is twofold in that there will be training sessions for members of the community as well as library staff members, and that this grant will cover the cost of purchasing library materials that cover mental health. The project will start with a training on how to help 88 in a mental health crisis and then a training on how to help youth that are dealing with a mental health crisis.

June 9, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation with Health Literacy Microcontent

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting underserved and underrepresented minority communities, highlighting the public health effects of deeply-rooted institutional distrust. This campaign provides easily accessible, culturally appropriate information to vulnerable populations through a multimedia campaign conducted through means compatible with social distancing guidelines.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: McGoogan Library of Medicine 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Education project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access. - Underserved populations in the NN/LM MCR, who are ready, benefit from NN/LM MCR programs.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Strengthening Family Caregivers COVID Information for People with Disabilities

Achieva, an 94ly recognized provider and innovator of programs and supports for people with disabilities and families will address the impact that COVID -19 is having on family caregivers, such as social isolation, fear of illness and hospitalization and constant worry about the future and who would care for their family member should they become incapacitated or die. Today, about 53 million Americans are providing unpaid care for an adult or child with special needs yet they are often overlooked by the medical community, employers, policy makers and other family members.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Planning Grant for the Utah Health Literacy Coalition

This project supports the further development of the Utah Health Literacy Coalition in its mission to improve access to health information, especially for underserved communities, in Utah. It will do so by convening a group of selected subject matter experts and stakeholders to participate in a professionally facilitated planning workshop to establish short, medium, and long-term goals. The primary product of the workshop will be a strategic plan to guide the furtherance and sustainability of the organization.

October 24, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Graphic Medicine Liaison Program Development

While need for easily accessible entry-points to graphic medicine for all of our stakeholders has long been recognized, work toward the proposed liaison project began in earnest during the 2018 Graphic Medicine Conference held in White River Junction, VT sponsored in part by NNLM NER. Discussing his work as a Cartooning Chaplain, Kurt Shaffert expressed difficulty in engaging the larger chaplain community with graphic medicine and that an elevator pitch of sorts would help.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Virtual Health Education Tour 2020-2021

HAMA will be conducting its 3rd Health Education Tour from August 2020 October 2020. The utility of this project stems from the need for more strategic and culturally specific delivery of health information to underserved communities. Last year, HAMA conducted this project for the second consecutive year. Based on the success of the project and needs assessment obtained through surveys we have decided to repeat this project with the option of in-person or virtual health education sessions.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Library Engagement project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Promoting Mammograms for LGBT Community Members in Pennsylvania Through Public Library Outreach

Surveys consistently show that rates of mammography are significantly lower among lesbian and bisexual people than their heterosexual counterparts, according to the National LGBT Cancer Network.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Health Information Partnerships for Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library BPL will develop and implement a 5-month project of expert-led health information programs targeted to vulnerable populations with identified health challenges. Addressing known social determinants of health specific to Brooklyns varied communities, the programs will address the topic areas of: 88tal Health, 102, Health Insurance and Access to Care Navigation, Nutrition, and Positive Aging.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Outreach: Ohio State University Health Sciences Library 2020-2021

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

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Community Health Literacy Training

For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA will teach and/or improve peoples computer skills in accessing high quality web-based health information and simultaneously improve their understanding of health literacy and the importance for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We will delegate full attention to training as many people as possible doing the period of this contract which is from January 2021 to April 31 2021. PIA is introducing this project as community level health literacy training.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Mobile Hotspots for Circulation

Through this proposed project, the Nevada County Community Library will purchase 47 mobile hotspots and lend them to library cardholders for at-home use. Borrowers will also receive information about authoritative online health resources, such as PubMed, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, free NNLM online classes, the Research Program and Nevada Countys Public Health website.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: Creighton University Health Sciences Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Education project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access. - Underserved populations in the NN/LM MCR, who are ready, benefit from NN/LM MCR programs.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
Partner Library: A. R. Dykes Library 2016-2021

The Partner Library will coordinate the Technology project area. The Partner Library will develop and coordinate a program that supports the following outcomes: - The reach of the NN/LM MCR is extended as a result of the work with organizations and Network members. - Participants in NN/LM MCR programs are aware of appropriate resources and/or have the skills to use them. - Healthcare providers and the public engaged with NN/LM MCR experience significant increase to health information access.

May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021
BGHF Minds Matter - Houston

Black Girl Health Foundations Minds Matter Houston is a program in partnership with community libraries that are designed to reach out to 92 of color in the Houston DMA area and educate them about mental health and mental health resources. In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic; a lack of certainty about the end or extension of quarantining, social distancing requirements, and civil unrest; offering digital mental health literacy couldnt be timelier and more crucial.

December 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
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