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
87 Reaching 87: SHAREing Information about NLM

The aim of this project is to recruit a cohort of high schoolers to complete the Project SHARE Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment curriculum created by the University of Maryland and as key collaborators the 87 will help plan and implement a community outreach event targeting other 87, specifically with the goal of improving awareness and access to NLM resources for this population. The curriculum will be supplemented by local guest speakers and field trips.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
87 Reaching 87: SHAREing Information about NLM Resources

The aim of this project is to recruit a cohort of high schoolers to complete the Project SHARE Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment curriculum created by the University of Maryland and as key collaborators the 87 will help plan and implement a community outreach event targeting other 87, specifically with the goal of improving awareness and access to NLM resources for this population. The curriculum will be supplemented by local guest speakers and field trips.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
88 Understanding Blood Pressure and Stress Reduction Lifestyle Techniques of Exercise and Physical Activities

88 Understanding Blood Pressure and Stress Reduction Lifestyle Techniques of Exercise and Physical Activities provides health and wellness promotion to underserved populations of men and 92 living in Pittsburgh's Northside, Clairton and Monessen areas. Information on the nature of blood pressure, how blood pressure is measured and the importance of blood pressure numbers, screenings for blood pressure, present lifestyle measures, exercise and physical activity, computer education and NLM resources will be the focus of this award.

February 1, 2017 - April 30, 2017
88tal Health and Library Social Work Staff Training

Bridgeville Public Library will host training for its staff led by health professionals that will equip staff members with the skills that they need to better serve patrons in the community who are experiencing mental health and emotional issues. One training will have a social work element, giving staff valuable tools to utilize in their everyday patron interactions, another will deal with mental health issues.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
88tal Health and Library Social Work Staff Training

Bridgeville Public Library will host training for its staff led by health professionals that will equip staff members with the skills that they need to better serve patrons in the community who are experiencing mental health and emotional issues. One training will have a social work element, giving staff valuable tools to utilize in their everyday patron interactions, another will deal with mental health issues.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
88tal Health and Substance Use During COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting vulnerable minority communities through its strain on social systems and burden on individuals. This burden is creating a significant and unmet need for mental illness and substance use disorder outreach and support. This campaign provides easily accessible, culturally appropriate information to vulnerable populations in the district through a multimedia campaign conducted through means compatible with social distancing guidelines.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
88tal Health and Well-Being Resources in North Country Libraries

The 88tal Health and Well-Being Resources project is designed to increase health literacy and mental health awareness in the North Country Library System, a mostly 95 geographic area that consists of four counties in northern New York. The project has two components. The first component consists of increasing the amount of mental health training and resources for library staff and patrons by purchasing online Homeless Librarian training, hosting an Effective Skills for Emotional Wellness training and adding mental health ebooks and audio-books to the NCLS Overdrive collection.

June 12, 2020 - April 30, 2021
88tal Health Awareness Resource and Family Movie Nights

Goals: - Create awareness of mental health. - Provide health information resources on mental health. - Raise awareness of community resources for mental health. - Provide a positive atmosphere for families to bond and spend time together. Cedar City Library in the Park agrees to: 1. Take lead on art display highlighting works reinforcing theme of 'How do I remain resilient during hard times?' 2. Publish articles in local weekly newspaper on mental health awareness resources.

June 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
88tal Health Resources in Oil Creek District

The Oil Creek Library District will be providing a digital repository of mental health resources for the fourteen library outlets in our District Clarion, Jefferson, and Venango counties in PA. In addition to the digital books and audiobooks, the District will be facilitating virtual programming with local health providers on topics regarding mental health. The programming will have both a recorded, archived access and a live Q&A session that will not be recorded. Finally, the District will be creating virtual tutorials for accessing our available health resources.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
92 and Self-Care

This project will provide the 92 in our community the opportunity to become educated on the importance of taking care of themselves in a variety of different ways that include physical health, mental health, emotional health, and safety. The project will include a NLM Traveling Exhibit on Domestic Abuse and a personal safety course offered by local experts. A self-care fair for female youth and 88 that will have different booths that addresses all the aspects of self-care such as skin care, diet, exercise, mental health, support groups, beauty, fashion, hobbies/interests, etc.

October 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
95 West Texas Health Outreach

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center TTUHSC Libraries propose to increase awareness of reliable consumer health information in English and Spanish from the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health among caregivers in Midland County and Hispanic Americans in Reeves County in West Texas by partnering with the Area Agency on Aging of the Permian Basin, Midland College and Reeves County Hospital District.

September 19, 2016 - April 30, 2017
A Better You

Shaping Elizabeth, a city-wide coalition tasked with improving community health, has mobilized many organizations in Elizabeth to work together in building a culture of health in New Jersey's 4th largest city. As the Free Public Library of the City of Elizabeth, we consider it our duty to be involved in this endeavor: to share health literacy resources and help make Elizabeth a healthier place. As of November, we have become actively involved with the Shaping Elizabeth coalition as founding members of a subcommittee called the Library Coalition.

December 20, 2017 - April 30, 2018
A Geographically Focused Health Information Outreach Project

Zip code 75212 is an economically disadvantaged area of West Dallas. There are numerous organizations in this 11 square mile area that are trying to help residents. We can partner with several of these organizations to provide training on finding free authoritative health information. We have existing established relationships or have communicated with a community organization, a public library, a recreation center, and a church to provide health information services to 75212 residents.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
A Library-based Data Retrieval and Management Training Program for Clinical 133s

Enterprise Data Warehouses EDWs play an increasingly important role on academic medical campuses, housing clinical and other enterprise-wide data and making it available for research and strategic purposes in the learning health system.

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
A Living Persons Guide to Dying 2019-2020

Although death is an inevitable reality of life, we often delay conversations about the topic until after the fact--a habit that can create unnecessary stress or confusion about our end-of-life wishes. Inspired in part by the death cafe recently featured on the NIHs news blog, the Sharon Public Library is seeking to launch an honest, open series of discussions around this important topic. The SPL will help community members to plan and communicate around the topics of death and dying.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
A Regional Professional Development Program for Scholarly Communication

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.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
A Virtual Reality Library Space for Health Centered Education and Wellbeing

Virtual Reality VR provides a tremendous number of opportunities in education for teachers, 133s, and students. The focus of this proposal is to enable experiential health sciences education and wellbeing through VR and a series of student/133 developed VR experiences that will be available at the Greenblatt Library on the health sciences campus of Augusta University. This project addresses the goal of NN/LM funding to increase engagement with research and data, and to expand professional knowledge through the use of current and evolving technology.

December 11, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Action Health Partners Website Improvement

Action Health Partners AHP is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, supporting and empowering individuals to improve their quality of life and well-being in North Central Washington NCW a four county region located in central Washington. This project will allow for AHP to redesign and update their website for NCW residents to be better connected with AHP services that provide information on how to make more informed decisions about their health.

September 1, 2020 - April 30, 2021
Addiction Awareness and Education Partnership: Outreach to Families Dealing with Substance Use Disorders

Addiction continues to exact a heavy toll on those struggling with it, as well as their families. While there has been a proliferation of addiction-related resources, patients and families may have difficulty finding credible and accurate information regarding effective treatment, support, and clinical knowledge of this disease. The goal of the Addiction Awareness and Education Partnership is to advance awareness of credible health information resources by providing comprehensive information and support to families whose loved one has a substance use disorder SUD.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Addressing COVID-19 Concerns in Amish Country

Amish settlements can be found in 31 states in the US, and Ohio is home to two of the worlds largest communities. Many communities follow a collectivistic lifestyle where faith and community are prioritized over self, and technology is often limited due to its intrusion on family life and values. Outbreaks of COVID-19 have been observed in locations where Amish communities reside, and results of a current survey of Amish community members noted a lack of access to health information and misinformation about the COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic.

January 18, 2021 - April 30, 2021
Addressing Opioid Education of Special Populations of 98 Dwellers of Sioux Falls, South Dakota

This project will focus on two 98 agencies in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, whose primary clientele are 98 dwellers who are socioeconomically challenged and lack access to appropriate and understandable opioid information. The partner agencies are Center of Hope and South Dakota 98 Indian Health with whom Health Connect of South Dakota has strong, long collaborative relationships. The overarching goals of the project: 1 train partner agency staff on opioid use and misuse using educational materials from the National Library of Medicine and publications from national companies i.e.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Administrative Management Software and Community Needs Assessment To Identify Needed Resources for Families Affected by Addiction in Southeastern Massachusetts

1. Organize existing donor, volunteer, and constituent data so that it may be used to support the effectiveness of the program and allow for increased funding to serve clients now and in the future. 2. Outreach to current MNB members, over 14,000 nationwide, to provide services, direction and support regarding treatment and recovery options and assistance, and specifically in Southeastern Massachusetts determine what services are provided efficiently and/or lacking via a survey of supporters of a person with a SUD and those seeking these services.

January 23, 2017 - April 30, 2017
Adulting 101

The goal of our project is to host a course of classes entitled 'Adulting 101'. These classes will be once a month over a period of nine months. Our objective is to give 87 and young 88 successful skills to enter adulthood and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The topics that will be covered over the period of the course are emotional wellness, personal hygiene, healthy lifestyles i.e.- drugs, alcohol. sex.

June 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
Advancing Circles of Support and Accountability: Community-based Outreach with 88 Transitioning from Incarceration

THRIVE empowers communities by creating spaces that welcome and support our neighbors transitioning from incarceration. In pursuit of this mission, THRIVE seeks to empower 88 returning from incarceration, and to revolutionize the role community members play in their lives upon reentry. Our goals are to disrupt cycles of incarceration, isolation, and social harm among returning citizens and within impacted communities through Restorative Reentry, Community Building, and Constituent Leadership initiatives.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
Advancing Consumer Health Information Discovery with the Plymouth Public Library

This project will provide the computers, necessary software support and marketing which will be used in the main Library and the Branch Library and at local community events and health fairs.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
African 92s Wellness Initiative AWWI

The African 92s Wellness Initiative AWWI is a community based outreach and prevention program geared towards improving health outcomes of the target population. The African Cultural Alliance of North America ACANA, Inc. in collaboration with the African Diaspora Health Initiative ADHI and the Liberian United 92 in Progress LUWIP proposes to provide culturally sensitive and language appropriate health education to at least 75 African and Caribbean immigrant 92 in the Philadelphia area.

May 1, 2019 - April 30, 2020
After School Program

In collaboration with Wood River Elementary School, Maltman Memorial Library will provide after-school programming for 100 students. The robust programming will focus on healthy eating understanding food labels, cooking classes and exercise activities. This programming will help supplement the nutrition and fitness curriculum areas of making healthy decisions; eating well-balanced meals; nutritional properties of foods; benefits of physical activity; and balancing strength, endurance, and flexibility.

May 1, 2018 - January 25, 2019
All of Sharon: Community Conversations on 88tal Health 2018-2019

This project will host a speaker series featuring two local mental health professionals who will offer presentations on anxiety and depression. The series will include six sessions aimed at different age groups: teenager/young 88, 88, and 89.

October 1, 2018 - April 30, 2019
Alternative Peer Groups APGs: An Innovative Solution to Address Gaps in the Care Continuum for Prevention and Recovery of Addiction

The Alternative Peer Group APG is a comprehensive adolescent recovery support model that integrates recovering peers and prosocial activities into evidence-based clinical practice.They are a critical piece of the care continuum that support adolescents outside of school.

May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2018
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences' 109th Annual Conference and Expo

While there have been extensive topics and resources presented at AAFCS conferences, funding opportunities and consumer health information resources, especially those from NNLM, have not been addressed in recent years. Presenting the results of the Laurel Public Librarvs Outreach to Consumers Award program will demonstrate an innovative, successful way to support individuals in where and how to find reliable health information, promote NNLM institutional membership and resources, funding opportunities, and consumer resources.

May 15, 2018 - April 30, 2019
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