Past Funded Projects

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

The goal of this project is to implement resource sharing management software at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine WMed. Currently WMed is functioning without automated interlibrary loan software and requests are instead managed manually by four full-time faculty librarians.

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.

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.

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.

Currently we cannot track if a client who accesses the SSP has also been tested or has received Narcan. We cannot track if they are a client of Client Services, if they have seen their primary care provider, are in treatment for HIV, or are completing their treatment to be cured of Hepatitis C. A central database would not only consolidate services across the agency, but would also be vital to coordinate care and track health outcomes -whether that is attaining an undetectable viral load in the case of HIV or achieving a cure in the case of HCV.

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

Worcester Polytechnic seeks an NNLM NER Member Program Award to subsidize hosting of the 2017 ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow. This program would be made available to librarians throughout the New England region, including academic, health sciences, public, and hospital librarians. This helps meet the NNLM NER's mission to support the continuing education and training of health sciences and public librarians.

The Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds project will enable Torrance State Hospital patients to learn how to access reliable health information to implement a healthy lifestyle, one that leads to lower rate of obesity, improved mental health, and a longer life. Behavioral treatments for obesity generally include dietary change, increased physical activity, and behavior therapy techniques.

Mount Saint Mary's University MSMU launched a comprehensive wellness movement, 'Mount Wellness,' in 2017 to help its community become, and remain, healthier. The MSMU library system will create a program affiliated with Mount Wellness that introduces MSMU students and staff to National Library of Medicine NLM resources, with a focus on MedlinePlus.

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

There are profound health inequalities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Exacerbating these health inequalities are barriers to quality health information for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. By linking farmworker youth and farmworker health outreach workers with NLM resources, this project seeks to improve access to health information. This project is a partnership between East Carolina University's Joyner Library and Student Action with Farmworkers SAF, non-profit farmworker advocacy organization founded in 1992.

SIMobile will enable the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, College of Nursing and Health Sciences CONHS implement the Augmented Reality Integrated Simulation Education ARISE Project. The goal is to strengthen simulation instruction by increasing student engagement and access to biomedical resources through technology.

This grant application is for funding to hire a clinical skills expert to develop a health literacy/patient communication module to be incorporated into a mandatory clinical skills review course for third-year students. Students will be brought back to campus from their rotation sites for this course. The Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine is a fully accredited four-year school of medicine leading to the granting of the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree DO. This is a continuation of funding received last year to integrate health literacy into the Osteopathic Medicine curriculum.