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Jun
18
0 comments Tags: Consumer Health, Funding, Success Stories, UIC
Cynthia Reynolds, Regional Health Sciences Librarian for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Crawford Library of the Health Sciences, applied for and received a GMR award to reinvigorate consumer health outreach in Rockford, Illinois. Background: UIC’s Crawford Library serves the UIC medical school in Rockford, Illinois. As an academic library, its primary users are pharmacy,… Read More »
Posted in: Blog, Consumer Health, Funding, News from the Region, Success Stories
Jun
15
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The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) has received additional funding from the GMR to continue efforts to support youth living in medically underserved areas with a mental health condition. The How to Maximize Your Health Insurance Benefits program is designed to reach out to professional youth influencers, such as social workers, librarians and school personnel through… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Funding, News from the Region, Success Stories
Jun
15
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The Division of Child and Community Health, part of the University of Iowa Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, partnered with the Greater Midwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine to offer family leadership training to parents or primary caregivers of children or youth with special health care needs between September 2017 and… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Funding, News from the Region, Success Stories
Jun
13
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The GMR office is excited to announce that Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES) has been granted a Heath Information Outreach Award for the continued development and implementation of a Health and Wellbeing Workshop Series for Minnesota’s Latino community. Background: Last year, the GMR funded CLUES to design and pilot a health and wellbeing… Read More »
Posted in: Funding, Outreach, Success Stories
Jun
11
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The GMR office is excited to announce that Allen College in Waterloo, IA has been granted a Health Information Outreach Award for its project, Iowa Public Health Research Center (IPHRC) at Allen College. Background: Due to the prevalence of underserved health communities, medically underserved areas, and remote rural conditions, Northeast Iowa has an especially… Read More »
Posted in: Funding, Public Health, Resource Sharing, Success Stories