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Midday at the Oasis

Agenda

Express Outreach Awards announcement 2012-2013 outreach projects highlights Guest speaker: Susan Barnes Guest speaker: Lisa Federer Questions Wrap-up

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Outreach Funding Announcement

Express Outreach/Training/Tech Awards

Intend to fund up to 5 awards, $12,000 maximum First consideration deadline March 15, 2013 Priority areas mentioned in announcement Work must be completed by April 30, 2014 Quarterly basis for reimbursement requests View RFP online http://nnlm.gov/psr/funding/eoa Plan to continue professional development awards

Important reminders

Indirect costs not allowed as budget item Food costs not allowed as budget item All funds MUST be expended by April 30, 2014 No rollover of funds from year to year Print collections may not exceed 5% of budget Mandatory online reports Mandatory highlights article for Latitudes blog

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Outreach Projects Highlights

Outreach to Students through College Health Services: Pacific Islanders Pilots

University of Guam American Samoa

Community College College of Micronesia-

Federated States of Micronesia, Chuuk State Campus

College of the Marshall Islands

Northern Marianas College

Integrating Patient-Centered Health Information into the Patient-Centered Medical Home

Create a patient education web portal integrated in the patient centered medical home (PCMH) clinical environment

Provide iPads in examining rooms for clinician and patient use

Participation of on-call librarians to provide mediated virtual support to assist patients in using health information resources

Bridging the Health Information Gap: Saturday Science Academy II and the Charles R. Drew University Health Sciences

Library

Workshops for local teachers, teacher assistants, parents, and K-12 students Saturday Science Academy II iSTEM ScholarsProgram (Tuesday Scholars Program)

Promote NLM K-12 Science and Health Education Resources MedlinePlus, NIHSeniorHealth, National Center for

Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Genetics Home Reference, ClinicalTrials.gov, AIDSInfo, Household Products Database, etc.

Community Mini-Conferences on Disaster/Emergency Preparedness Health Information

Plan and provide community mini-conferences at partner sites on disaster and emergency preparedness with knowledgeable speakers and information instructors 750 attendees to date!

Health Professionals Information Use in Patient Care in Research-Rich Settings: Implications for Librarians, Health

Professionals and Patient Care and Opportunities for Training

“Supporting Open Access: Librarians as advocates, researchers, educators and role models” CE Course Stanford, CA, January 25 Los Angeles, CA, February 21 Honolulu, HI, March 28

“An evidence-base for Open Access: Establishing the degree to which health personnel at university hospital access the primary and secondary literature”

Arizona Outreach

E-promotoras program offered to community health workers in central and northern Arizona

Explore the health information needs of pharmacists working in the community

Improve/expand access to health information in multiple languages for health care providers working with refugee populations

Offering bilingual training on PubMed or MedlinePlus/consumer health resources

Information Services Outreach for Rural and Frontier Nevada

Conduct a needs assessment to better address challenges of health information practice in rural areas

Provide information services and training to clinicians and care providers in rural and frontier Nevada

Promote online distance instruction methods in the pursuit of training and educational goals

Why Evaluate an Outreach Project?

( W I L L YO U R O U T R E A C H M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E ?H O W W I L L YO U K N O W ? )

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Create a Good Outreach Plan

What will you do?

Why is it important?

How will you know the results of your project?

Who cares about those results?

What will you report at the end? 

Example Outreach Project: “Bridging the Health Information Gap”

1. Strengthen K-12 health education.2. Provide training in using NLM resources to K-12

instructors and students.3. Focus on NLM SIS K-12 Science and Health

Education website.4. Tailor resources depending on age group.5. Provide further instruction for interested teachers

and students.6. Survey participants to evaluate training.

Example Outreach Plan

What will you do?• Provide training, focused on NLM SIS K-12 Science and Health Education

website, tailored by age group. Provide further instruction for interested teachers and students.

Why is it important?• Strengthen K-12 health education.

How will you know the results of your project?• Survey participants to evaluate training

Who cares about those results?

What will you report at the end? 

How do we evaluate our outreach?

Quantitative approaches (how many, how much) End-of-session evaluations Tests Questionnaires Records Observations

How do we evaluate our outreach?

Qualitative approaches (what do the numbers mean?) Interviews Field observation Written documents

Outreach Often Involves Training

The Kirkpatrick model’s 4 stages provide a framework for evaluating quality and results:

Evaluation of Quality: Examples

MLA Course Evaluation

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Training Evaluation

MLA Course Evaluation (cont.)

MLA Course Evaluation

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Evaluation (slide 1)

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Evaluation (slide 3)

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Evaluation (slide 2)

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Evaluation

MLA Health Information Literacy Research Project Evaluation

Be Aware of “Response shift”

Pre-test/Post-Test question for a law enforcement workshop to a Neighborhood Watch Program

Retrospective pre-test may protect against response shift

Post test/Retrospective question for a Neighborhood Watch workshop

Perceived change is an alternative to retrospective pre-test methods

Perceived change question for a Neighborhood Watch workshop

Pilot-test your questionnaires at least twice!

1. Ask a couple of colleagues to work through your questionnaire—actually fill it out—and provide feedback to you. Revise accordingly.

NOTE: Susan Barnes can help you with this, and so can UCLA’s NN/LM PSR librarians!

2. Have a sample of five or six people who are members of the group you are studying (or who are very similar to them) fill out the questionnaire and provide feedback.

Evaluation resources are available on the web and in print

“Quick Tip Number 8: Methods for Collecting Information” http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/resources/pdf/Tipsheet8.pdf

Planning and Evaluating Health Information Outreach series of 3 booklets—they’re free!

• Getting Started with Community-Based Outreach• Including Evaluation in Outreach Project Planning• Collecting and Analyzing Evaluation Data

http://nnlm.gov/evaluation/guides.html

For more information:

Shipman, et al. (2009). “The Health Information Literacy Research Project.” Journal of the Medical Library Association. 97(4): 293–301.

View the original “Bridging the Health Information Gap” description (and many others’) at: http://nnlm.gov/funding/database.html

Want suggestions about methods? Send Susan Barnes an email sjbarnes@uw.edu (or call at 206-221-7425)

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Finding Funding and Forming Partnerships

Outline

Finding sources of funding Collaborating with grant-funded researchers Outreach

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Finding Funding …………

Scope: 26 federal funding agencies, including NSF, Department of Health and Human Services

Finding Funding ………......

Scope: NIH-funded grants

NIH Grant Glossary

FOA: Funding Opportunity Announcementpublic announcement of grant funding PA: Program Announcement

• “identifies areas of increased priority and/or emphasis on particular funding mechanisms for a specific area of science”

• typically ongoing, open for a period of three years RFA: Request for Applications

• “identifies a more narrowly defined area for which one or more NIH institutes have set aside funds for awarding grants”

• typically have a specific due date

Unsolicited or Investigator-Initiated Applicationswith electronic submission system, must be filed under a Parent Announcement

NIH Grant Glossary (cont.)

Funding mechanisms: describe the type of activity covered R series: Research Grants (single project)

ex: R01 – Research Project Grant P series: Program Project/Center Grants (multi-project)

ex: P01 – Research Program Project Grant K series: Career Development Awards

Career Award Wizard: http://grants.nih.gov/training/kwizard/index.htm T and F series: Training and Fellowship awards

funding for individuals pursuing training in research or health professions

Finding Funding …………………

Scope: currently or previously funded grants

Finding Funding …………………

Contains detailed descriptions of funded projects

Using MyRePORTER ……………

Save queries Set up alerts (such as when someone from your

institution receives a grant)

Collaborating with Researchers

Get to know their research NIH RePORTER description Previously published research Data Curation Profiles: http://datacurationprofiles.org

Outreach – Specific Services

DMPTool - https://dmp.cdlib.org/ interactive data management planning tool

Outreach – Forming Partnerships

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