Past Funded Projects

Exhibit at 95 Health providers in the state of Tennessee. This includes clinicians, nurses, 12s, and 133s relevant to 95 health in Tennessee. The estimated meeting attendance is 300-450.

Orlando Health Literacy will be the title of an ongoing health literacy campaign for the patients and families/caregivers of all Orlando Health hospitals and satellite facilities. There will be multiple areas covered within this project such as a library outreach where the consumer health librarian goes out on the treatment floors and within the satellite facilities to meet the patients and serve them in a one-on-one reference interaction assisting them in locating credible and timely health information.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain state of the art technology in the science and health/wellness classrooms grades K-4 at St. Joseph School. The school serves PK-grade 8 totaling 245 students. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase additional tablets for student use in grades K-4. Using tablets, students will be able to share and compare their work from multiple devices at the same time as a projector for all to see.

This grant will allow Lakeville Area Public School staff to work with Community Blueprint to form a youth action team, and develop an interactive and informative marijuana campaign. From the name and logo, to the tone and messaging, and to the in-school outreach activities, we'll include youth in the entire process of building a marijuana prevention campaign for Lakeville high school students.

Let's Talk Health LTH pilot project consists of a three-pronged approach designed to provide the following services: 1. LTH will provide health literacy instruction to existing ESL classes in the HOPE Literacy, Inc.'s sites, and the University of North Texas Health Science Center's UNTHSC Healthy Start and Building Bridges young mothers and refugee participants. 2.

With the continued aging of our population and the increase we see in senior centers being built in the area, Westchester Public Library plans a Community Connections with 89 program to engage discussion regarding Alzheimer's.

Connections4Health C4H is an innovative program of placing a 'social service help desk' in the waiting area of underserved medical centers to assist patients in their unmet needs during, and as part of, their medical visit. Volunteer college students are trained as 'Community Health Fellows' to work with patients while they are attending a medical appointment. These volunteers engage patients one-on-one to understand their unmet social service needs and create individualized action plans with referrals to relevant social service agencies.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer a nine month program July 2017- March 2018 for 90 high school girls enrolled in Eureka! Girls Inc.'s capstone STEM- science, technology, engineering, and math- program and 150 girls registered in Girls Inc.'safter school program. Girls Inc.'s multi-tiered Healthy Living Project aligns with NNLM's mission to broaden access to and awareness of health information resources, with an emphasis of using those resources provided by NLM. The project will complement and enhance Eureka! and Girls Inc. after school programs.

The prescription opioid awareness pilot program will enable high school students to access biomedical and health information, learn about the prevalence of this epidemic in their communities the health consequences, and steps need to reduce its impact especially on high school students. Offered as a collaborative effort, the program is an integrated in-class, student-centered, technology-driven, youth empowerment program.

Recipient will attend 2018 Western Forum for Migrant and Community Health, February 22-24, Seattle WA. Attendance will help meet the general WASCLA goal of building collaborations to overcome language barriers to healthcare services through increasing our knowledge base on current issues and programs, and offering us the opportunity to interact with others working in public and private sector programs which address community language access needs.

The Pitt-Bridge Health Science Clubs seeks support for underserved students in middle and high school of Steel Valley School District. The goal is for the students to learn how to acquire and share health literacy with peers and family. With trained mentors, each club will promote health literacy, built upon STREAM Science, Technology, Research, Engineering, Arts and Mathematic foundational disciplines. The health themes have been locally identified and selected as being of school and community relevance.

New, easy to understand and use tools that are accessible to patients and providers can facilitate better health information seeking and address many barriers associated with low health literacy that result in increased cost and negative outcomes, especially for those patient populations that experience significant health disparities.

The UVA Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and University of Virginia Library Research Data Services + Sciences will collaborate to build a data catalog that facilitates access to open health data and an educational program that promotes data literacy, encompassing the FAIR Data Principles Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable. The NYU Data Catalog will be deployed and populated with records promoting access to open health data. The data catalog will be available to 133s at the University of Virginia and citizen scientist in the community.

Support Native peoples in northwestern Nevada greater Reno-Sparks area by providing instruction and promoting freely available health information resources, with a focus on National Library of Medicine NLM content.The primary goals are to increase awareness and provide support through in-person and online education for community members from grade 8 through 89. REMARKS: Katie Jefferson, Library Services Liaison and Library Faculty member, will assume overall leadership responsibility for this subaward.