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Jan
28
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Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2020 Time: 2pm – 3pm ET Description: Discover how to engage and create long lasting partnerships with community members while disseminating consumer health information. This webinar will discuss the difference between engagement and outreach, building trust within your community to support impactful collaborations, and creating and finding community engagement resources. We… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Continuing Education
Oct
16
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Jarrod Irwin, Consumer Health Coordinator, NNLM SEA On September 12, I had the privilege of attending Stand Up for Health, a class taught by my colleague Bobbi Newman in the Greater Midwest Region. I attended as preparation for teaching the class in the Southeastern/Atlantic Region. Stand Up for Health gives an introduction to consumer health,… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Continuing Education, Public Libraries
Oct
10
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Pratt Chat blog by Lauren Read Mental Health Day October is Health Literacy Month, and this post serves to highlight mental health, which often is given shorter shrift. 10 October’s commemoration as World Mental Health Day has sparked further interest in exploring and sharing the topic. The 2019 theme of World Mental Health Day is… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Education, Outreach, Public Libraries
Jun
18
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On June 24th, 2019, NNLM Southeastern/Atlantic (SEA) Region welcomes Jarrod Irwin as our new Consumer Health Coordinator. In this role, Jarrod will coordinate the development and implementation of consumer health and health literacy programs throughout the region. Jarrod is a recent graduate of the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked at… Read More »
Posted in: All Posts, Consumer Health
Apr
10
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The Public Library Association (PLA) has added another collaborative project to its ongoing partnership with the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), a program of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Through this partnership, PLA will launch a new survey intended to measure the effectiveness of public libraries’ consumer health programming in Project Outcome, the association’s free… Read More »
Posted in: Consumer Health, Public Libraries