Past Funded Projects

The Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso TTUHSCEP Libraries proposes to deliver outreach services to health care professionals and the 125 in the El Paso area by means of classes, booths at health fairs, and site visits. All outreach activities will be taking place in the predominantly Hispanic/Latino El Paso area.

The need for healthcare professionals to recognize low health literacy patients and to communicate with them effectively has been well recognized and widely reported. 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. We offer a comprehensive educational program that prepares our graduates to enter residencies throughout the country and to become licensed physicians in the 50 states and District of Columbia.

This technology funding proposal is to obtain state of the art technology in the science and health classrooms at Saint Joseph School in Webster, MA. Saint Joseph School serves student's pre-k through eighth grade, totaling approximately 200 students. This proposal is requesting funds to purchase tablets for students use and complete the wireless infrastructure necessary for use within the classrooms. Using the tablets, the students will be able to wirelessly share and compare their work from multiple devices at the same time a projector for all to see.

Girls Inc. of Worcester plans to offer an 8-session program for 20 high-school girls enrolled in Eureka a 5-year program that involves at-risk girls in planned activities and education that increases their opportunity for success in STEM education and careers. This program will take place from November 2016 through February 2017, and will complement and enhance the Eureka curriculum. Each year, girls participate in Eureka for 4 weeks during the summer 160 hours followed by monthly meetings and workshops during the school year 30 hours.

The Healthy Pet Project HPP is a wonderful opportunity to educate our community participants in the skills needed to promote healthier lifestyles for their pets, themselves, and in the differences and similarities between pet and human health concerns. Most of our workshop participants are not aware of MedlinePlus for humans let alone its pet health section. Since MedlinePlus provides easy to use, reliable information in both areas, MedlinePlus information and training will be incorporated into the program.

This project will create a four pronged approach to education and support for students and families faced with addiction and recovery. Addiction is a family disease. In order to fully educate and support the adolescent, we know that families must be involved, supported and educated on the specifics of adolescent addiction.

Health education is taught at all school grade levels in the Caddo Parish School System CPSS. Librarians from the Health Sciences Library at LSU Health Shreveport LSUHS will work with the Caddo Science Department's K-6 and 6-12 Curriculum Instructional Specialists CIS and the Supervisor of Libraries of Caddo Parish Schools to bring awareness and encourage the use of gamification and game-based learning health and sciences resources linked from the NLM databases.

Algonquin Regional High School has a HOSA Health Occupation Students of America club going into it's 4th year. We have attended the State Leadership Conference at UMass Medical Center for 3 years and will attend this year on Saturday, April 8, 2017. We are applying for this $5000 grant in order to educate the 35 members of our ARHS HOSA chapter and to facilitate their outreach programs for the school and community. Our education and outreach programs would focus on health-related careers and topics.

The goal of this project is to improve middle and high school students' ability to locate and evaluate health information, including online resources using iPads within Hertford County Public Schools.

Dahlgren Memorial Library DML at Georgetown University Medical Center GUMC plans to seek funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Southeastern/Atlantic Region NNLM SEA for a project designed to deploy and assess the utility of iPad Mini tablet devices for use by 5 residents in the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital MGUH in Washington, DC. When the iPad mini devices were released by Apple, Inc.

The Community Health Education Center CHEC is a library for patients and their family members located in a large academic medical center. CHEC provides patients and their family members with reliable health information written at a level they can understand. In addition to providing patients with health information, The CHEC librarian plans to provide a day-long consumer health information symposium aimed at local public librarians. Public librarians often serve patrons requesting health information. The symposium will provide an overview of CHEC resources.

The NN/LM 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 junior librarian 2-5 years of experience 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.

Mobile Systems Education and Resources for Consumer Health MSEARCH 2 is an electronic skill-building program focused on educating 89 in Harris County how to navigate National Library of Medicine NLM health information resources using mobile device technology. The program will address the information-seeking needs of 89 while providing ready access to NLM e-health information resources. This program is an expansion of the MSEARCH program that was developed and successfully implemented by the Greater Houston Area Health Education Center GHAHEC at four community centers last year.

The goal of PATHS Patient/Parent Access To Health Sources LEADING TO IMPROVED HEALTH OUTCOMES, is to provide patients, parents/family members of those newly diagnosed with pediatric cancer and other pediatric chronic illnesses at the University of South Alabama USA 86's and 92's Hospital a means of acquiring and using reputable health resources from the National Library of Medicine NLM during the educational processes upon diagnosis, treatment, supportive and survivorship stages of their illness.