Past Funded Projects

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

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center - Robert M. Bird Health Sciences Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

Glouster County Library System intends to provide the best access to health resources, including website links and print materials, to our community. Upon completion of the preconference, we will have an increased awareness of the essential ones to present. We plan to enhance the resources listed on the Health and Wellness subject guide on our website. Health programming and screenings, on an ongoing basis, will continue to be a priority and increase in frequency.

This program will help me better prepare to implement programming as part of the Library Moonwalk Grant. In addition, the Canajoharie Library and Art Gallery serves a population that is 25% below the poverty line. Because it's a 95 community as well, access to healthcare and health information is hard to come by. I'm excited to learn more about how to bring health equity to our community.

I will attend the sessions "The Role of Libraries in Addressing Homelessness and Poverty" and "Libraries and Open Enrollment." The conference will also provide opportunities to learn and share best practices, network, and increase my knowledge of trends in library and social services. My branch South Philadelphia Library has a health focus so I will certainly benefit from the preconference which will deepen my understanding of issues surrounding health literacy and equity.

In applying for this award I hope to take the information I learn from the preconference on Implicit Bias, Health Disparities and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity along with the sessions at Midwinter Conference back to Brooklyn. This award would allow me to learn more about health inequities with the populations I directly serve. I'd enjoy the chance to continue learning more about how librarians can continue helping address the health challenges in our communities.

The main program that I would attend, Implicit Bias, Health Disparities, and Health Literacy: Intersections in Health Equity is an ALA Midwinter Preconference to raise awareness of implicit bias's connection to health equity and to deepen understanding of health literacy. Participants will explore how libraries can deepen their work in health literacy to make a lasting impact for improving the health of their community. Additional programming for ALA midwinter has not been released but I plan to attend sessions that deal with intersection of health literacy and food literacy.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center- Preston Smith Library of the Health Sciences Library will partner with the public libraries in their designated counties to extend the educational offerings of the program, promote the National Library of Medicine resources, provide health information in-service training for library staff, and raise awareness of the program. NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator will provide program support and coordination.

Elaine Hicks, MS, MPH, MCHES - Ms. Hicks will serve as an Expert on Call to exclusively collaborate with the Health 12 at NOLA Public to support the program, 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 in collaboration with the Health 12. The Expert on Call will be physically located at the Tulane University and receive program assignments from the NNLM SCR Community Engagement Coordinator.

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

This project will design, conduct, and evaluate a 4-month pilot study in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island which will assess the effectiveness of a community-based campaign to work with and educate key stakeholders about the need to dispose of unused opioid prescription drugs. Determine if the proposed model is effective and can be used in other communities to reduce the significant amount of unused opioid prescriptions that remain in medicine cabinets. NLM resources will be distributed and education about opioid related NLM information will be given.

The Southeastern New York Library Resources Council SENYLRC proposes to raise awareness of unbiased and free health information available on the web from the National Library of MedicineNLM to school nurses and librarians in their region. They will do this through a series of live presentations along with a webinar for future reference and review. Southeastern's region consists of five BOCES Boards of Cooperative Educational Services. Within each BOCES are public school districts. Southeastern's BOCES are located in six counties in the Hudson Valley.

The Center for Addiction and Recovery Studies CARS developed a website using a DSHS grant in 2011 to list resources for pregnant 92 in Dallas County www.dallashealthybabies.com. This website is in need of updates and a more engaging / entertaining presentation. It also needs more links to evidenced based healthcare information as found on the National Library of Medicine's databases. The website provides links to various local resources that can be helpful for pregnant 92 in Dallas County.

The proposed pilot project aims to promote awareness and demonstrate the use of National Library of Medicine 101 health information resources and MedlinePlus. At Charles R. Drew University CDU, 101 is one of five major areas of research, and this project will provide an avenue to disseminate reliable health information to many people who are impacted by 101 in South Los Angeles. The Library Director will partner with two CDU 101 faculty members who have a long history working in the local community.