Past Funded Projects

This page includes awards made during the previous NNLM award period (May 1, 2016 - April 30, 2021).

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Title Summary Project Period
Clinical Conversations - The Wright Center for Community Health

The organization will pilot test Clinical Conversations, an education program for clinical staff on health literacy and associated concepts. Brief, pre-created education modules will be delivered to staff as part of regularly scheduled onsite meetings. Modules will include instruction on accessing NLM resources appropriate for the selected training topic. Staff will also be provided with handouts, links for additional resources, and e-mail follow-ups linking them to more information.

December 18, 2019 - April 30, 2020
CLUES Health and Well-being Workshops

CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support a Health and Wellbeing workshop series for the second program year. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including southern Minnesota in areas such as St. James and Austin.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
CLUES Health and Wellbeing Workshops in 95 Minnesota

In the interest of providing greater access to culturally competent and linguistically relevant health services to Minnesotas Latino communities, CLUES requests funding from the NNLM to support the development, planning, and execution of our Health and Wellbeing workshop series. The workshops will take place in areas of Minnesota where large communities of Latinos live and work, including 95 southern Minnesota in areas such as Worthington, Mankato, Willmar, and Austin.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Cmo dar un P.A.S.O. hacia el Bienestar Emocional! How to Take a Step toward Emotional Wellness

Cmo dar un P.A.S.O. hacia el Bienestar Emocional! How to Take a Step toward Emotional Wellness is a health literacy outreach intervention designed to improve emotional wellness knowledge and related communications skills among Hispanic 88. This work builds on a previous support from the NNLM SCR to develop the M.O.V.E. toward Emotional Wellness guide in English and adapt it into Spanish.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Collaborate and Educate: A School-Based Prescription 103 Awareness Program

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.

January 1, 2018 - April 30, 2018
Combatting COVID-19 Misinformation with Health Literacy Microcontent

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting underserved and underrepresented minority communities, highlighting the public health effects of deeply-rooted institutional distrust. This campaign provides easily accessible, culturally appropriate information to vulnerable populations through a multimedia campaign conducted through means compatible with social distancing guidelines.

January 25, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference

The Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences. This year's conference theme is "The Ways We Work" and will offer panel discussions and oral presentations on the ways that graphic medicine is being practiced by teachers, librarians, healthcare professionals and artists.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference

The Comics and Medicine 2018 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences. This year's conference theme is 'The Ways We Work' and will offer panel discussions and oral presentations on the ways that graphic medicine is being practiced by teachers, librarians, healthcare professionals and artists.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Communication Chart

To support the development of a Communication Chart, which is a clinical tool that will be used to facilitate effective communication between patients and healthcare providers. The charts are translated into four different languages CHamoru, Chuukese, English, and Filipino to best serve the diverse patient population of Guam and Micronesia. Using visuals and plain language in an easy-to-understand layout, they will be implemented to assist patients dealing with language barriers or conditions inhibiting verbal communication.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Community Assessment - Opioid Crisis, High Risk Pregnancies and Access to Information

This proposal will interview community agencies within Dallas County to survey their understanding of opioid use, access to services, access to healthcare information, and unmet needs of the populations they serve. The community assessment will also include a survey of healthcare services provided in the identified communities and determine their knowledge and use of NLM information.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Community Assessment - Opioid Crisis, High Risk Pregnancies and Access to Information

The opioid crisis has been well documented. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, there were 188 births with documented Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome NAS in Dallas County to babies covered by Medicaid. This is 13% of the NAS Medicaid claims for Texas in 2015. There were also 160 opioid-related deaths in 2015 which is 13.6% of the opioid-related deaths in Dallas County. However, Dallas County accounts for 9% of the Texas population.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Community Engagement in Health: Expanded Access via Technology 2019-2020

The Arvin A. Brown Library in Richford VT requests funding to upgrade computers and software so as to make information and access available to the broader community. This includes information from NNLM, NLM, and about the Research Program. Richford residents have great need to research government sites and other reliable sources about health particularly regarding addiction, lifestyle, and disabilities and the library serves as a safe, private space in which to access these sites and apply for programs.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Community Engagment Technology For Identifying The Health And Wellness Needs Of The Ray County Community Project

Congratulations to Ray County Library for receiving a Library Engagement Technology Funding Award! The goal of this funding project will be for the library to have a more in-depth understanding of the community it serves. This will assist the library as it carries out its mission to inform, inspire and enrich the community. The requested statistical software will allow library staff and Board members to better understand community needs and subsequently allow for more informed decision making regarding library programming and resources.

June 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Community Health in the Library CHIL

The Community Health in the Library CHIL: Reinvigorating Outreach at the UIC Crawford Library of the Health Sciences project will improve access to high quality, reliable health information for the city of Rockford, Illinois and the surrounding Winnebago County community. UICs Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, hereafter referred to as the Crawford Library, has had a long history of participating in community outreach, educating the community on the National Library Medicine NLM resources, and housing a Consumer Health Collection specifically for the community.

May 1, 2018 - October 30, 2019
Community Health Literacy Training

For this award of $25,000 P. I. Advocates 94, Inc. PIA will teach and/or improve peoples computer skills in accessing high quality web-based health information and simultaneously improve their understanding of health literacy and the importance for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. We will delegate full attention to training as many people as possible doing the period of this contract which is from January 2021 to April 31 2021. PIA is introducing this project as community level health literacy training.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Community Health Outreach: Collaborate - Communicate - Engage: An Interprofessional Education Discussion in the Health Sciences

Host a one-day Interprofessional Education IPE event in January 2019 for Pacific Northwest faculty, clinicians, librarians, nurses and others, helping foster cross-discipline and cross-community engagement and knowledge sharing

July 1, 2018 - March 1, 2019
Community Health Outreach: Collaborate, Communicate, Engage: An Interprofessional Education Discussion in the Health Sciences

Host a one-day Interprofessional Education IPE event in January 2019 for Pacific Northwest faculty, clinicians, librarians, nurses and others, helping foster cross-discipline and cross-community engagement and knowledge sharing

July 1, 2018 - March 1, 2019
Community Health Outreach: Comics and Medicine 2017 Conference

This project will bring the Comics and Medicine 2017 Conference to Seattle, WA on June 15-17, 2017 at the Seattle Public Library. The Comics and Medicine 2017 Conference seeks to engage health providers, health information professionals, artists, academics and members of the local community in the use of comics as a resource to provide accessible health information and communicate health-related experiences.

January 18, 2017 - October 31, 2017
Community Health Outreach: Health in the Hi-Line

Expose the Hill County community and students to different fields in Healthcare via a talk by a keynote speaker and panel of reps from non-traditional health occupations

January 1, 2019 - April 30, 2019
Community Health Outreach: Health in the Hi-Line

The objective of "Health in the Hi-Line" event is to expose the Hill County community and students to different fields in Healthcare. The keynote speaker will address how healthcare degrees and experience can be applied in community related work and community related-positions. A panel with representatives of non-traditional health occupations specific to Hill county and surrounding communities will participate to promote resources and increase knowledge of care available in the community across the hi-line and the Rocky Boy Reservation.

January 1, 2019 - April 30, 2019
Community Health Outreach: Health Kiosks Increase Access

Over twelve months, Multnomah County Library will pilot the use of health information kiosks in select branches. Kiosks will allow access to the online health portal products used by local health clinics that serve the local homeless population, those transitioning out of homelessness and people with very low income.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Community Health Outreach: Improving 95 Montanans' Access to Quality Health Information

This project will consist of a spectrum of outreach activities that MSU Librarians will implement to educate Montana constituencies about National Library of Medicine resources and services.

January 13, 2017 - October 31, 2017
Community Health Outreach: Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia in Primary Care

Washington State has the third highest rate of death from Alzheimer's disease of any state in the nation. This is expected to increase 40% in next 10 years and 181% over the next 30 years. In many practices in Washington State, there are no guidelines to increase quality of care for screening, diagnosis, or treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. This is costly to the health care system and highly burdensome to patients, caregivers, and the community.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Community Health Outreach: Planning New Directions: A DTS Approach to Healthcare Acquisition & Information

Research shows Native Americans continue to fall far behind all other ethnic groups in King County, Washington, with regards to health care disparities. Poor outcome indicators, in high rates of heart disease, diabetes, mental health, and violence, are among signicant consequences. Among a short list of prioritized new directions, three planning goals define our approach to providing health awareness and the acquisition to health care resources.

October 1, 2018 - August 31, 2019
Community Health Outreach: Planning New Directions: A DTS Approach to Healthcare Acquisition & Information

Advance efforts to lessen health disparities for Native Americans Specifically Duwamish in Seattle through a public relations campaign involving a website redesign and weekend retreats focusing on health and wellness.

October 1, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Community Health Workshop: Promoting Healthy Communities by Increasing Knowledge

The Community Health Workshop project seeks to utilize and build on the role of community spaces such as libraries, senior centers, and community centers to facilitate access to knowledge and promote action amongst the underrepresented and underserved in Tarrant County, specifically the Hispanic and African American populations. The proposed project introduces community members to reliable consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Community Memorial Health System Outreach Project

This project will allow the Community Memorial Health System CMHS Medical Library to purchase, install, and manage a dynamic digital signage system. The project will increase the capacity of the CMHS Medical Library to provide awareness of Library resources that are directly relevant to academic achievement e.g., new textbooks, journals, databases; class teaching schedules; CMHS graduate medical education news; National Library of Medicine resources and services and improved patient care outcomes.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Community Memorial Health System Outreach Project

This project will allow the Community Memorial Health System CMHS Medical Library to purchase, install, and manage a dynamic digital signage system. The project will increase the capacity of the CMHS Medical Library to provide awareness of Library resources that are directly relevant to academic achievement e.g., new textbooks, journals, databases; class teaching schedules; CMHS graduate medical education news; National Library of Medicine resources and services and improved patient care outcomes.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Community Outreach to Hope and Recovery

This project will develop a networked sustainable and scalable approach to the provision of educational personalized, print, digital and referral services to all who seek assistance in supporting loved ones suffering from substance use disorder. Blessed Sacrament Church will adapt physical space and collaborate with NNLM NER and others in the development of a networked Hope and Recovery Center for awareness and programs as well as for drop-in educational services including digitally networked services which will incorporate NLM resources.

May 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Confronting the Opioid Crisis: A School-based Education Outreach Program

Confronting the Opioid Crisis: A School-based Education Outreach Program will enable a cohort of high school students to access biomedical and health information, learn about the prevalence of this epidemic in their neighborhoods, communities and county, the health consequences, and steps needed to reduce its impact especially on school students. Program will address the current efforts being used to save lives and resources available to them if they need treatment.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
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