Past Funded Projects

Provide health education and health information searching skills for individuals in most need with a focus on affordable food selections, simple meal preparation, and physical activity engagement to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 is a state-wide educational program focused on improving oral health care for 86 by providing education to primary care providers, facilitating medical-dental partnerships and enhancing oral health literacy for the community. In 2015, Healthy Teeth Healthy 86 developed a new health literacy resource - the Oral Health Story Kits - in partnership with Reading Public Library with the primary goal of providing basic oral health education to libraries which would help encourage good oral health habits for 86 and families in the their community.

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Managing diabetes is a full-time job for patients. They must adhere to medication regimens, monitor glucose levels, adopt new diets and make smart life-style decisions to avoid disease complications and maintain a good quality of life. Tablet computers, through their multimedia capabilities, interactive features, and touch screen functionality can enhance learning across patient populations. Tablet computers can also act as an APRN extender for patient education.

The UND Health Sciences Library has assigned clinical campus librarians to work in four quadrants of the state. The four clinical campus librarians work in the cities of Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, and Minot, and serve as the designated library contacts for healthcare professionals and consumers located within those quadrants. The Library's Interim Director and these four clinical campus librarians will form the core project group that will plan and complete these outreach activities

We will continue supporting our education program with previous participants who wish to continue. However, we are shifting our strategy to move into public spaces and reach people of all ages to expand the awareness of the importance of proper coughing and sneezing etiquette. Dense, highly traveled areas where public are required to be for purposes such as transportation, judicial hearings, and attendance at public zoos and other areas, are the focus of this year's campaign to educate and encourage proper sneezing and coughing etiquette.

The Arc of Whatcom County serves as the lead agency for Whatcom Taking Action, a collaborative of community leaders, parents, service and care providers working to create a cohesive system of services and support for 86 impacted by developmental, behavioral and other special healthcare needs. As part of Taking Action, the SEAS Single Entry Access to Services program, housed at the Opportunity Council, provides a centralized intake system and single point of contact for families to connect to resources and information.

Managing a primary care panel is an ever-changing experience. Physicians, medical support staff, administrative staff and patients need to be engaged in the circle of care. Tablet computers, through their multimedia capabilities, interactive features, and touch screen functionality can enhance learning across patient populations. Tablet computers can also act as communication portal and a care engagement tool. Tablets offer better consistency and quality control of the educational message while also overcoming literacy and language barriers.

The primary purpose of the 'Solving the Unsolvable' online discussion and symposium event is to bring together key stakeholders located or affiliated with southeastern Massachusetts involved in the current opioid epidemic to identify in-school needs and possible solutions to the prevention and treatment to addiction in adolescents and young 88.

Through this project, HSLIC will focus on sustaining the connections with the many organizations in New Mexico it has partnered with in the past to raise awareness of free health information resources available through the National Library of Medicine. This will be accomplished through an array of demos, classes, exhibits, and health fairs. This awareness building will specifically target 95, underserved populations and those who provide services for them in New Mexico through the promotion of NLM resources.

Scanning for Science: Increasing Access to the Future of Medicine: The Nova Southeastern University Health Professions Division Library plays a central role in supporting education and research, and works to provide access to new technologies for students and faculty.The NSU HPD Library supports seven colleges, Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Optometry, Health Care Sciences, Nursing, and Medical Sciences, so the library is an ideal space for collaboration. The library currently provides 3D printing and hopes to expand this service with free 3D scanning.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain assistive technology for use in five Life Skills classrooms at Roosevelt Elementary School in Worcester, MA. Roosevelt Elementary houses three life skills classrooms grades kindergarten through six and two Autism/Life Skills classrooms grades kindergarten through six. This technology will be used daily in the Life Skills classrooms, servicing a total of 36 students. This proposal requests funds to purchase Ipads for students use, Bluetooth switches to access the technology, ipad bumper covers and Ipad apps.

1. Saratoga Elementary School Library staff will provide training to Saratoga Middle/High School Librarian in the use of National Library of Medicine health resources for consumers during the fall semester. 2. Provide health information literacy instruction for K-6 students once during fall semester, and once during spring semester. 3. Provide health information literacy instruction for 9th graders once during spring semester. 4. Provide health information literacy instruction for parents at at least one PTO meeting.

Post-disaster community members seek opportunities to volunteer and support recovery efforts. Tapping into this resource requires governments to have a plan to receive, train, and equip spontaneous volunteers rapidly. Libraries are known community hubs, provide great space for processing and training volunteers, and have access to resources related to disasters through the National Libraries of Medicine among other sources.