Past Funded Projects

McDowell Cares- is a non-profit/profit collaboration in the Town of Northfork, McDowell County, West Virginia. This collaboration between South Central Educational SCED and Bennady's Restaurant formed out of the owners concerns of the lack of health equity, youth leadership, and the area's poverty levels. This partnership will provide 95 community residents with access to electronic health information, prevention interventions and internet access to reliable quality health information and resources.

The main aim of this project is to implement three HPV educational interventions in the Boston area to improve knowledge, attitude and comfort levels of OHPs in being able to talk to their young patients and parents regarding HPV. The ultimate goal of the project is to increase HPV awareness and knowledge and promote HPV vaccination.

Funding agencies such as National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health are increasingly requiring data management plans DMPs in grant proposals. In response to these funding agency mandates, academic libraries are increasingly providing data management services to university 133s. A better understanding of the impact of DMPs on grant awards and grant-funded research will enhance library data services for academic 133s, promote data stewardship and data sharing, and could potentially increase 133s' competitiveness for grant awards.

Couples Team Work is a program for couples in which one partner has a chronic illness and the other is transitioning into a role of partner/caregiver. Couples work together to support each other's needs by learning about and developing systems to enable them to make informed decisions about their health.

The Medical Education department of Maine Medical Center strives to grow the next generation of medical professionals to serve the people of the state of Maine. We seek to engage students in underrepresented populations and in areas of high need. Our pilot program will target refugee and economically disadvantaged high school students in York and Cumberland Counties in fall 2018 and expand to the 95 Knox and Waldo Counties of the midcoast region in 2019.

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.

Pay a trainer to facilitate three train-the-trainer workshops per month 5 months for a total of 15 workshops for two new outreach teams 2 people per team=4 people in facilitating PIA's health literacy classes in underserved communities. Trainees will accompany the trainer on community workshops and practice facilitating the workshops after two months. Trainees will receive a certificate of completion after final class,

The NNLM SCR is partnering with the South Central Academic Medical Libraries Consortium SCAMeL to offer the Emerging Leaders Award. The purpose of this award is to motivate and prepare a librarian for a position of leadership in an academic health sciences library. The award will pair a librarian with a SCAMeL academic health sciences library director who will serve as his or her mentor. The SCAMeL volunteer mentor will introduce the award recipient to the financial and administrative roles and responsibilities of a health sciences library director.

The goal of the project is to enhance the health and wellness of MidAmerica Nazarene University students. This will be accomplished by addressing the following objectives: 1 providing students with current, relevant health information, and 2 providing students with current, useful information about campus life. Thus, the two outcomes of the project will be students who: 1 are empowered to make more informed and healthy lifestyle choices, and 2 have a stronger sense of identity within the university community.

In Phase I of this project, University of North Dakota UND Health Sciences Library administered an information needs survey to unaffiliated North Dakota ND health care professionals in early 2017. The results provided useful information, and several individuals volunteered to provide additional information in follow-up interviews.

Data sharing is essential for expedited translation of research results into knowledge, products and procedures to improve human health.1 The Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore UMB will implement a data catalog to facilitate the discovery of data sets created by UMB 133s. The project will provide an outreach opportunity to increase awareness on campus of the importance of data management, data sharing, and provide 133s with a venue for showcasing their work.

Sensory Storytime is an initiative of the Adams County Library System ACLS to provide meaningful early literacy experiences for 86 who may have sensory processing or autism spectrum disorders, and families who would benefit from a story time that is designed to meet the needs of this special population. This will be achieved through staff education in sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders, and training in delivery of high-quality sensory story time sessions, utilizing available local, regional, and national resources.

Ada Lovelace is relatively unknown in the United States. However, this early 19th century woman and gifted mathematician is generally credited with being an early computer visionary and the first computer programmer. Her partnership with renowned mathematician Charles Babbage and expansion on his work on the 'Analytical Machine' resulted in what is regarded as the first computer program.

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.