{"id":33631,"date":"2025-02-27T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T18:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/?p=33631"},"modified":"2025-04-17T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:19:05","slug":"r4-connections-empowering-teens-through-media-and-health-literacy-the-role-of-health-sciences-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/r4-connections-empowering-teens-through-media-and-health-literacy-the-role-of-health-sciences-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"R4 Connections: Empowering Teens Through Media and Health Literacy: The Role of Health Sciences Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for our next R4 Connections webinar in March. In this session, our guest speaker will be providing an overview of the Mental Health First Aid training, including applications and benefits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/r4march2025\">Registration is required<\/a>\u00a0to attend. Please note: You must be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnlm.gov\/user\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NNLM member<\/a>\u00a0to register (it\u2019s free!).\u00a0Can\u2019t join us live? Register anyway to receive the recording after the event. Please reach out to\u00a0<a title=\"Intro to Generative AI\" href=\"mailto:region4@nnlm.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">region4@nnlm.gov<\/a>\u00a0with any questions you may have.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date and Time:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. MT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Session Length:<\/strong>\u00a060 minutes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong>Jill Kavanaugh, MLIS, AHIP<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong>Description: <\/strong><\/strong>Adolescents and young adults increasingly rely on social media for health information, yet misleading information\u2014especially regarding topics like dietary supplements and body image\u2014can have serious consequences. This session explores health literacy, highlighting how health sciences and public health librarians can play a pivotal role in equipping youth with the skills to critically evaluate digital health content. Drawing from an NNLM Outreach Grant-funded online course designed for teens, this session will share evidence-based strategies for teaching media deconstruction, countering misleading information, and integrating media into library programming. Attendees will gain practical tools and resources to support initiatives in their own institutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33632\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections.png\" alt=\"March 2025 R4 Connections webinar flyer\" width=\"1640\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections.png 1640w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/March-2025-R4-Connections-1536x865.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for our next R4 Connections webinar in March. In this session, our guest speaker will be providing an overview of the Mental Health First Aid training, including applications and benefits. Registration is required\u00a0to attend. Please note: You must be a\u00a0NNLM member\u00a0to register (it\u2019s free!).\u00a0Can\u2019t join us live? Register anyway to receive the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/r4-connections-empowering-teens-through-media-and-health-literacy-the-role-of-health-sciences-librarians\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-collegeacademic-libraries","category-public-libraries","category-webinars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33631"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33740,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33631\/revisions\/33740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}