Family Health History Program Plan

Train Librarians

Have focus group create their own family health history and research conditions on MedlinePlus

Develop librarian training programs, including a test

Identify bilingual librarians and incorporate them into the project

Make sure that bilingual librarians are able to answer questions about the project and MedlinePlus in Spanish

Train in health privacy and brief on HIPPA laws (CITIProgram PBRN)

Develop Promotional Materials

All promotional materials must be in English and Spanish. Materials should target middle-aged women

Design language-appropriate mass emails.

Develop posters

Ask librarians what already existing group would be a good target. Incorporate the project into their regularly scheduled activities

Bring in Additional Stakeholders

Bring in the schools, as this program is educational and potentially for the whole family

- See if the libraries can advertise via school handouts

- See if some teachers want to get students to do their family health history as an assignment

Notify the doctors, see if some of them want to inform their patients

- Create an asset map using the libraries’ zipcodes

- Send out mass emails to doctors informing them of the project

- To create awareness of the project, and smooth over potential rough patches.

Implementing the Program

Put up posters and send up mass emails

Hold informational sessions at already existing library events

Have patrons complete Surgeon General’s tool

- Schedule group classes with multiple patrons at convenient times

Evaluating the Program

Gather demographics on libraries

Evaluate librarian training

- Training should include a pre- and post- test

Evaluate stakeholder buy-in

- Number of schools participating, number of doctors involved, etc.

Use pre- and post-test to gather patron data – must be done for patrons to get card

- Should ask if the librarians were helpful, where they heard about the program, how useful they think the pedigree will be, if they feel they need to / should see their doctor, if they will see their doctor, and other questions relevant to the principal investigator.

Survey the librarians to see if they feel more comfortable acting as a health resource person