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Apr
01
0 comments Tags: Cooking Matters, Focused Outreach, healthy eating, healthy recipes, limited budget, MyPlate, Northeastern Connecticut, nutrition, nutrition education, quiet corner, resource sharing, smart grocery shopping
In each year of our five-year cooperative agreement with the National Library of Medicine, the New England region provides a special kind of outreach, called “Focused Outreach” to specified, medically-underserved areas in New England. Bangor, Maine was identified as this year’s urban, focused outreach area and Quiet Corner, Connecticut was identified as the rural,… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Dec
08
0 comments Tags: Focused Outreach, mental health, public libraries
Last June, I took a drive up to Bangor, Maine to set the groundwork for this year’s Focused Outreach work. NNLM NER is putting the spotlight on the work of Bangor-area librarians for 2018-2019. We interviewed nine librarians at various Maine locations, including two hospital libraries, two urban libraries, two rural libraries, a community college library… Read More »
Posted in: Funded Project
Mar
13
0 comments Tags: community engagement, Focused Outreach, sexual health
On Wed, March 28, NNLM NER is collaborating with Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) and Team Maureen for a community-based training on finding quality sexual health information on the internet. The Maureen E. Russo Nonprofit Organization (Team Maureen) was founded in memory of Maureen E. Russo, who passed away from cervical cancer at the… Read More »
Posted in: Public Health, Trainings