Outreach Subcontracts

Littleton Regional Hospital, Gale Medical Library
Northern New Hampshire Health Information Outreach
This project will conduct a pilot project at three sites in northern New Hampshire that do not have convenient (if any) access to health sciences library services. Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, NH, Indian Stream Health Center in Colebrook, NH, and The Morrison in Whitefield, NH. The primary goal of this project is so that Health professionals at rural health care facilitated in the northern New Hampshire will have regular access to health information resources in order to provide high quality care.

Massachusetts General Hospital, Treadwell Library
Head Start CAPIC Collaboration
The proejct will establish an onsite Health Information Resource Center at the CAPIC (Community Action Programs, Inter City, Inc.) Head Start Program in Chelsea, MA. CAPIC Head Start serves low-income families with young children in Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop. Many families are recent immigrants. The Project team will create a physical resource room and a web site containing resources on general child health and wellness, nutrition and healthy eating. The Project team will teach parents and Head Start staff how to find and use appropriate and authoritative health information.

River Valley Healthy Communities Coalition (RVHCC), Rumford ME
River Valley Health Information Literacy Outreach Project
The goal of the River Valley Health Information Literacy Outreach Project is to increase awareness of reliable online health information and improve the health literacy of youth and young adults in rural Northern Oxford County, Maine. RVHCC and its collaborators will assess community health information needs, increase the capacity of teachers and librarians to use reliable resources, and pilot health information literacy lessons in schools, adult education programs, and public libraries. Resources and outcomes will be compiled in a sourcebook and disseminated by RVHCC in partnership with the Maine Network of Healthy Communities. RVHCC is a non-profit organization serving nine towns (Andover, Byron, Canton, Dixfield, Hanover, Mexico, Peru, Roxbury, and Rumford).

Tufts University, Hirsh Health Sciences Library
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL)
The goal of the SPIRAL project is to promote health literacy by collecting health information in multiple Asian languages for non-English speakers to search, and for health care providers to make available to their non-English speaking patients.

University of Vermont Dana Medical Library
Connecting Patients, Providers, and the Community with Quality Health Information
This project will assess the use of consumer health information in a clinical setting located in a rural, and economically disadvantaged community. Dana Medical Library will team with medical and professional staff of the Milton Family Practice to provide educational modules on quality patient and consumer health sources. The partners will also enhance the ability of the Milton Public Library and the Milton Family Community Center to support the health information needs of the community.

Yale University, Cushing Whitney Library
Information Needs of Connecticut School Nurses
This project is designed to determine the information needs of Connecticut school nurses and to develop resources and training that match those needs. The information needs of the school nurse population have not been reported in the literature, and it is therefore assumed that it is an understudied area. The project will center on the use of a survey as well as focus groups as the main tools to discover how school nurses currently find new information, what their needs are, and what would be the most helpful way for them to access information in the future. Results of the data collection will be analyzed to develop a strategy of information delivery and potential training opportunities.

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Project Funded During 2001-2006 Contract

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