NNLM Funding Opportunities: An Overview

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NN/LM Funding Opportunities An Overview

• Kathel Dunn, MSLS
• Associate Director,
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• Middle Atlantic Region

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Agenda Objectives

• NN/LM awards and NLM grants and funding
  opportunities
• Basic elements of the NN/LM application
• Needs Assessments
• Goals and Objectives
• Methodology
• Budget
• Evaluation
• Q A

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Types of Grants Funding Ops.

• NN/LM Funding
• http//nnlm.gov/mar/funding/
• Government Grants
• Grants.gov http//www.grants.gov
• NLM http//www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/extramural.html
• NIH http//grants1.nih.gov/grants/index.cfm
• HHS http//www.hhs.gov/grantsnet/
• Private Corporations Foundations
• Foundation Center http//fdncenter.org/

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NN/LM Funding Awards

• For full and affiliate network members
• Exhibit Awards
• Training Awards
• MedlinePlus Go Local
• MicroAwards
• For full network members
• Technology Improvement Awards

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NN/LM Awards Side Note

• Must be a member
• How to find out if you are a member?
• Go to http//nnlm.gov/members/adv.html
• For membership information, go to
• http//nnlm.gov/mar/services/renewal/newmember.htm
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Project Ideas

• Internet/PubMed/TOXNET training for first
  responders
• Provide train-the-trainer sessions for public
  librarians
• Training to health professionals serving people
  with developmental disabilities
• Exhibit at a conference that focuses on health,
  disease prevention or health promotion

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Before the Application

• Gather background information on the need to be
  addressed
• Identify project needs
• Staffing
• Equipment
• Supplies
• Sketch a rough draft of the budget
• Determine who will write the application

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Sections of the Application
Need
Budget
Market
Plan
Method
Evaluate
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Needs Assessment

• Interviews
• Focus Groups
• Questionnaire

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Interviews

• Interview someone in the target population you
  would like to work with
• If you know someone
• Pharmacist, Health Educator
• If you dont know someone but know someone who
  knows them
• Faculty, clinicians, health professionals in your
  own institution

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Focus Groups

• Hold a focus group of the targeted population
  that you would like to work with
• Students
• Nurses
• Community organizers

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Questionnaire

• Survey your target population
• Questions posted to a listserv
• Email or web survey
• Paper survey
• In-person survey

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Identification of Target Population and
Geographic Area

• Use background data
• Be as specific as possible
• Group
• Demographics
• Census information - Populations
• Socioeconomic data

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Project Goal and Objectives

• What do you want to accomplish with the project
  overall?
• List goals and objectives
• Goal Increase social workers awareness of
  HealthyNJ, health web site for New Jersey
• Objectives
• Conduct training sessions at the University of
  New Jersey
• Develop liaison with school of Social Work at
  University of New Jersey
• Publicize HealthyNJs only in New Jersey
  resources
• List each goal individually

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Methodology and Approach
The Meat of the Application

• How will you address the need?
• How will you meet each objective?
• Details, details, details
• What is the timeline from start to finish?
• Who will staff the project?
• What are their qualifications?
• CVs

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Budget

• Be specific
• Example
• Need 500 for equipment NO
• Need 565.00 for SuperDuperScanner 5000 YES
• Dont list anything in budget thats not in
  project title, description, etc
• Example
• Project is for a training session to teach PubMed
• Budget request is for 300.00 for a fax machine
  ???

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Evaluation

• Must be measurable and quantifiable
• Will be based on the baseline data
• Evaluate each goal and objective.
• Use
• Measuring the Difference Guide to Planning and
  Evaluating Health Information Outreach
• by Catherine M. Burroughs M.L.S.
• available online at http//nnlm.gov/evaluation/
  guides.html
• Outreach and Evaluation Resource Center
  http//nnlm.gov/evaluation/
• Contact NN/LM MAR office if you need a copy

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Exercise Program Planning
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Caring Hospital in NJ

• Has a library
• Has a Health Education department
• In a county with a large Spanish-speaking
  population
• Patient Safety an emerging issue

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Need Statement
Caring Hospital in New Jersey will collaborate
with its Health Education department in outreach
sessions to provide training in Spanish language
health information for the hospitals Spanish
speaking patients. The hospital is seeing an
increasing number of Spanish-language only
speakers who need help in managing their chronic
diseases, such as diabetes and asthma.
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Needs Assessment

• The hospital librarian conducted three hour-long
  interviews with the health educators at Caring
  Hospital to determine the most pressing health
  information needs of the patient population. The
  health educators identified finding health
  information in the native language of the
  population as a critical need. The hospital
  librarian followed the interviews with a
  literature review, confirming the importance of
  the provision of health information in languages
  other than English and identified the best
  resources for the provision of Spanish-language
  information, including MedlinePlus.

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Identification of Target Population
Caring Hospital is located in Union County New
Jersey, the 3rd most populous county in New
Jersey with native Spanish language speakers,
according to the 2000 census. Union Hospital is
a primary care center for the county, with an
annual census of 50,000 and 10,000 admissions
(2005 data). Inpatient care emphasizes adult
medicine. Its Spanish language-only speakers are
estimated at 2,000 annually, based on internal
hospital surveys.
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Project Goals and Objectives

• Goal To increase health care providers and
  patients awareness of Spanish language health
  information on the internet
• Objective 1 Provide training to clinic staff on
  Spanish language patient educational materials on
  the Internet
• Rationale
• Objective 2 Place up to two wireless computers
  in the outpatient clinic at Caring Hospital
• Rationale

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Methodology

• Caring Hospital will host RML staff to teach an
  adaptation of the class, No Comprende? Spanish
  Health Information Resources for English Speaking
  Librarians for clinic staff
• Caring Hospital will follow class with 6
  hour-long morning, afternoon and late afternoon
  sessions for patients on
• Health Resources on the Web
• Class description
• Patient Education Materials on the Web
• Class description

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Evaluation

• Tie evaluation to objectives
• Pre/post assessment
• Behavior track use of materials, web site hits
• Knowledge know more after the activity?
• Attitude satisfaction or greater willingness to
  use?

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Exercise Evaluate Outreach Conference Award
Applications

• Conference 1

• Conference 2

• Purpose open a dialogue on community diversity
  and serve as a model for other hospitals,
  community health centers, public libraries that
  wish to broaden their outreach, build strong
  community partnerships and increase their
  effectiveness in integrating diversity and
  eliminating disparity in healthcare.

• Purpose to provide health professionals and
  hospital staff with an educational and practice
  opportunity to develop an awareness of health
  literacy issues and improve communication skills
  with individuals in the X region of MAR. It will
  present practical information that will help
  participants implement the new health literacy
  requirements of JCAHO.

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Agenda

• Conference 1

• Conference 2

• 800am 1200pm
• Topics to be explored
• Unique aspect of community?
• Misunderstandings based on educational
  attainment, language barriers, and cultural
  belief systems be reduced?
• How can healthcare providers make outreach more
  effective?

• 800am 830am Registration
• 830 835 Welcome remarks
• 835 845 Introduction
• 845 915 Overview What is Health Literacy and
  Why is it an important public health issue

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Partners Evaluation

• Conference 1

• Conference 2

• No co-sponsors
• No letters of support
• No evaluation stated

• Two co-sponsors (in addition to applicant
  organization)
• 10 letters of support
• Attached copy of evaluation

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QUESTIONS?

• Kathel Dunn
• NN/LM MAR
• 212.263.4197
• 1.800.338.7657
• dunn_at_library.med.nyu.edu