Location
SU 216
Start Date
15-11-2019 11:20 AM
Presentation Type
Podium
Department
Health Sciences and Physical Education
Session
Session 5
Description
As libraries are re-envisioned and reborn as community centers and resource providers, what is their role in understanding and positively contributing to a given neighborhood’s social determinants of health (SDOH), particularly among vulnerable populations? To answer this question the Teen Services department of Chicago Public Library, a licensed professional counselor, and a NEIU team made up of a faculty researcher, an academic librarian, undergraduate students majoring in community health, collaborated to conduct a needs assessment. The aims of the needs assessment was as follows: 1) To uncover the most common health-related needs among community teens as perceived by Teen Services staff; 2) To document the ways Teen Services staff are already addressing the health-related needs of teens and challenges associated with doing so; and 3) To identify resources, programming, and services Teen Services staff would like to provide to teens and how the library can support their staff in doing so.
Included in
A Public Health Approach to Uncovering the Health-Related Needs of Library Patrons
SU 216
As libraries are re-envisioned and reborn as community centers and resource providers, what is their role in understanding and positively contributing to a given neighborhood’s social determinants of health (SDOH), particularly among vulnerable populations? To answer this question the Teen Services department of Chicago Public Library, a licensed professional counselor, and a NEIU team made up of a faculty researcher, an academic librarian, undergraduate students majoring in community health, collaborated to conduct a needs assessment. The aims of the needs assessment was as follows: 1) To uncover the most common health-related needs among community teens as perceived by Teen Services staff; 2) To document the ways Teen Services staff are already addressing the health-related needs of teens and challenges associated with doing so; and 3) To identify resources, programming, and services Teen Services staff would like to provide to teens and how the library can support their staff in doing so.