Ashley Wallace - Coordinator, KDHE Office of Primary Care and Rural Health - Topeka, KS

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Missy Lancaster Director at Linn County

Hello, Brianne Noriega. Health Advocate/Special Initiatives Manager for Abbeville County library System in Abbeville, SC.

Gwen Geiger Wolfe, MPH, MLS - previously a health librarian in both public and college libraries. Currently STEM librarian at KU. Thank you for your hard work in this area!

Heather Braum, Health Policy Advisor, Kansas Action for Children (former NEKLS librarian). Thank you for this important conversation!

List of rural and small town libraries across Kansas - another great resource - https://www.imls.gov/search-compare/?refinementList%5Bstate%5D%5B0%5D=KS&refinementList%5Blocale_string%5D%5B0%5D=Rural&refinementList%5Blocale_string%5D%5B1%5D=Town

Library loaning Blood Pressure kits--good in rural communities where resources are limited.

Tisha Coleman, KDHE Regional Local Public Health Nurse, this is GREAT and thank you for all of this...…. Janet is from the County I live in and she is awesome!!!!

I agree! This is great! I'm Jade Lauber, Patron Services & Outreach librarian for Great River Regional Library in central Minnesota! Thanks!

Margie Sheppard, Community Engagement Coordinator, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 3. Located in Kansas City, KS at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

Thanks Cynthia! I'll email Ashley the slides and they'll be posted here - https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/306/Navigating-Rural-Health-Resources-Webina

Yes! After the webinar, I will also send out a copy of all slides as well as a link to the recording to all registrants. Thanks, all!

Library District #2 of Linn Co is AMAZING!

+1 Margie!

Janet, that all sounds incredible! I wish I could sit in on lunch and bingo.

Caitlyn Baker, "New" Assistant Director at the Miami Public Library in Miami Oklahoma. So much to learn, and this is so informational!

Janet's talk is reminding me of this amazing resource from the NIH - Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits - I think librarians can and do contribute to these different dimensions of health and wellnesshttps://www.nih.gov/health-information/your-healthiest-self-wellness-toolkits

You are welcome!

Has anyone run into liability insurance issues in trying to bring a program to the library, or does the library's insurance pretty much cover getting involved in any of these types of programs?

Libraries might be a great location for satellite WIC clinics, maybe once a month or every other month where a Health Department's can move throughout the county to expand their reach and eliminate the transportation barrier, are you aware of any libraries doing this?

Exactly my thoughts too, Tisha, great question!

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2018/06/01/bringing-libraries-to-wic/

https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2019/04/librarians-visiting-wic-centers/

I would love to have this panel present for the NNLM Region 3 Health Bytes Series.

May also want to consider using Friends of the Library to assist with programs and outreach.

https://www.ywcaneks.org/what-we-do/advocate/racial-justice-book-club/

Public librarians: "There are so many things we've gotten involved in" - Quote of the day from Janet Reynolds

Thank you for this great presentation.

Thank you!!! This was an eye opening presentation!!!

Wonderful information! Thank you!

Wonderful presentation. Thanks to all of you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

The Librarians and their coats of many colors!

Thank you all so much!

Thanks!