Past Funded Projects

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

The volume of information available online makes it difficult to navigate and validate. The overall goal of the project is to improve awareness for credible online health information by providing an interactive MedlinePlus session in 95 community settings. GHP aims to accomplish the goal through partnership with Fayette County public libraries and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Medical Library RML at the University of Pittsburgh. Together, we intend to develop and conduct an interactive MedlinePlus training program in Fayette County for 88 22 years with at least one health condition.

I will present at the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine on a project I have been participating in for the past year about electronic portals. Electronic portals enable people to engage in personal healthcare choices and manage on-going care. The Patient Engagement Portal PEP, developed by two large rehabilitation hospitals that could not find an off-the-shelf solution to meet their population needs, is an easy to use tool for patients with physical and/or cognitive disabilities.

Over the past fourteen years, the TEACH Academy Teachers Exploring and Advocating Careers in Health has provided teachers, guidance counselors and health professionals with resources to educate students and patients of all ages and about the rapidly-changing field of healthcare and careers in the field. The 2017 TEACH Academy will expand the curriculum to include biomedical and health information from the National Library of Medicine. MAR staff will be invited to present a workshop session, and resources and information will be included in the materials given to TEACH participants.

Award will help public librarian recipient attend MLA Symposium/Health Information for Public Librarians 2018. Description: The symposium, of interest to both public librarians and health sciences librarians, offers programming in the area of health information for the public. It also provides a unique opportunity for public and health sciences librarians to network.

J.O.I. Community Outreach proposes to campaign for health literacy through coordinated effort of media, workshops, service providers and enetertainemtn. Bringing the community out each week during the summer to participate in health activities, resources, information and workshops. Our community events garner tremendous numbers of people every week, on average 1500 people for 8 weeks.

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.

Stony Brook University librarians will provide instruction for public librarians on consumer health resources, including MedlinePlus, Consumer Genetic Health Resources, TOXNET select databases and Tox Town. The workshops will be open to public librarians and library school students, and SBU librarians will be partnering with the Suffolk Cooperative Library System.

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.

Stony Brook University health sciences librarians will train area public librarians in free consumer health resources using a combination of NNLM courses and Stony Brook tutorials. Resources will include MedlinePlus, consumer health genetics resources, TOXNET, ToxTown and more.

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.

Parents/caregivers of 86 with developmental disabilities need information that will help them make decisions regarding their child's treatment and keep them safe and healthy.

For 17 years P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA has forged meaningful partnerships with community and faith organizations as a 'mobile' training program. PIA has perfected a 2.5hr hands-on computer workshop designed specifically for disproportionately served neighborhoods. Being 'mobile' has allowed PIA to train community members where they live and/or work. We need to updated our training equipment for the three outreach teams operating in the Washington Metropolitan Area.