New Year’s Resolutions with Region 7

Posted by Sarah Levin-Lederer on December 12th, 2025 Posted in: Blog
Tags: MedlinePlus, professional development, Training

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As we say goodbye to 2025, let R7 help support you in your plans for 2026 with these resources to help keep some common New Year’s Resolutions.

And whatever the coming year holds, R7 wishes you a happy and healthy New Year and we look forward to seeing you in 2026.

Learn Something New

Looking to learn something new in 2026? Take a class with us or catch up on past classes. Or use the NNLM Guides to find new resources and learn new things on a variety of topics.

Training: Offerings cover a wide range of topics and come in an array of formats including webinars, asynchronous learning opportunities, on-demand, and recordings. And remember, classes are always free!

NNLM Guides: Find information and links to resources on different topics including emergency preparedness, graphic medicine, rural health, and more!

Read a Good Book

Want to read more in the new year?

NNLM Reading Club offers book recommendations and supporting resources on a range of health topics with new selections coming each month. Supporting resources including discussion guides also make it easy to share titles with your community.

Check out a Graphic Medicine Book Club Kit to share comics on health topics with your book club, community group or colleagues. Kits include six copies of a book, discussion guide and supporting health information and loan for eight weeks.

Get Ahead at Work

Is 2026 going to be your year for advancing at work? Looking to add new skills?

NNLM can help you obtain a specialization with classes and that meet requirements for Consumer Health Information Specialization (CHIS), Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), Data Services Specialization (DSS), and Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). And remember, classes and CEs are FREE!

Finally, did you know that NNLM can even help sponsor the application for specialization obtained through MLA? Sponsorships are available. Reach out to learn more.

Try a New Food

Is this the year you try a new food but don’t know how? Healthy Recipes on MedlinePlus can help you find ways to incorporate more fruits and vegetables or even how to use ingredients that might be new to you like Garlic Bok Choy, Sauteed Mung Beans, Fiesta Barley Salad, or Fabulous Fig Bars.

Search recipes by meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner) or by type (soup, side, bread, etc.) to find ways to change up what you eat.