(light ethereal music)
- Okay, I think I'm gonna go ahead and get started.
It's right at 11 o'clock and we've got a lot to cover today.
First, my name is Bobbi Newman
and I want to welcome everyone to today's
National Network of Libraries of Medicine webinar.
This particular session is being hosted
by the Greater Midwest Region as part of our
Kernel of Knowledge series.
For those of you who aren't familiar with
the Greater Midwest Region, we're located here
at the University of Iowa, hence the kernel of corn
in our Kernel of Knowledge series.
- [Randy] Our speaker loves that.
- We have an exciting presentation for you today
so I'm gonna go ahead and get started to make sure
we have time for all the content and questions.
Just a few housekeeping items.
You are automatically muted on entry
so please use the chat panel to ask questions
or make comments.
You may need to exit the Full Screen mode
to access that chat box.
You'll also notice in your panel,
you can use the drop down menu to designate
who the chat goes to.
Please mark everyone if it's meant for the entire group
so everyone can see or you can send messages directly to me
if you're having a technical issue.
We will be posting this recording on the National Network
of Libraries of Medicine YouTube page for full viewing
or reference within a week or so.
You can go ahead and go to the next slide, Danielle.
First, I want to introduce myself to you as today's host.
I am Bobbi Newman and I'm the Community Engagement
and Outreach Specialist here at the Greater Midwest Region.
Basically that means I connect with the public libraries
in our 10-state area.
We will be offering a one CE credit certificate
a the end of today's webinar.
What's gonna happen is at the end of the webinar
I'm going to email out a survey asking you
to answer a couple of questions about the webinar.
And when you get to the end of that,
if you want the CE credit, it'll prompt you through
the rest of the process.
Alright, and then I'm gonna go ahead
and introduce today's presenters.
Erin Donlan is the Information Services Librarian
at Gail Borden Public Library District
where she helps library customers find reliable information
to answer their health-related questions
and represents Gail Borden Public Library
at the Kane County Community Health Improvement Plan
Executive Committee.
We also have Danielle Henson,
the Community Engagement Liaison
from the Gale Borden Public Library District.
Danielle engages to connect community and the library
as they rise to fulfill their GBPLD,
that's the Gale Borden Public Library mission,
the library, where imagination and transformation flourish,
fueled by the power of community.
She's a library representative to Activate Elgin
Community Health Coalition and committee chair
to the Activate Elgin Annual March into Health series
and the Elgin Community Council for Health.
Wow, Danielle!
Randy Reapelle is the Director of the City of Elgin
Parks and Recreation.
He oversees the facilities, staff, parks,
golf courses, and operations.
He's the chair of the Active Elgin citywide
Health and Wellness Committee engaging all sectors
of the community to work in harmony
providing all residents with opportunities
to improve their health, well-being, and quality of life.
And then we have Mary Carol MacDonald.
She is the Manager at Diabetes and Nutrition Services
at the Presence Saint Joseph Hospital.
She received her Bachelor's degree in nutrition
from the University of Illinois at Urbane,
or Urbana-Champagne.
And she completed the dietetic internship
at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio.
She represents the hospital as an executive committee member
for Kane County Health Department.
Her passion is promoting health and preventing disease
through lifestyle change.
She has worked as a registered dietitian for over 30 years
and is currently the manager
of Nutrition and Diabetes Services at
the Presence Saint Joseph Hospital.
And I had the pleasure of seeing this presentation,
or seeing this group present,
at the Illinois Library Association Conference.
And today they're gonna talk to you about how they
work together for health and wellness literacy.
Take it away guys.
- [Danielle] Thank you, Bobbi.
This is Danielle Henson talking and I want to welcome you
to the Wellness Literacy Library-Led
Community Health Initiative.
And I'd like to introduce Randy Reapelle,
who will speak to you a little bit about Activate Elgin
and the City of Elgin Parks and Recreation department
and how engaged he is in the community
for community health building.
- [Randy] Thank you, Danielle.
I think what I'd like to do is start to help our,
or introduce our listeners to Elgin
and the community we are, give you a little background
since it's people from across the country
that are listening in on this.
Elgin is a northwest suburb of Chicago.
We're about 50 miles out from Chicago,
population of about 112,000, a very diverse community.
Now probably over half of our population
belong to minority groups.
We have a good portion of Elgin that's an older city,
dense, urban setting and then we have some other
out to the west that's more a suburban feel.
But we're a very diverse community.
Our tagline is a city in the suburb so we feel like
we have more in common with probably the city
than we do a suburb but we have a little bit of both
of those in our communities.
Our Parks and Recreation Department is a part of this city
and here in Illinois there's also a lot of communities
that are served by park districts
that perform a similar function.
Wherever you live there's probably a local
park and recreation agency that's a part of your community
and so a lot of the things I'm gonna share today
can probably be translated to them as well.
This first slide shows our Mayor Dave Kaptain.
He's working out with our community at an event
that we held several years ago which is called
Elgin's Largest Family Fitness Program.
And one thing I'd encourage everybody to do
is find a community leader that is really concerned
about the health and wellness of your community
and get them engaged with your partnership,
whatever you're trying to accomplish.
Somebody that can kind of be out front for you.
In Elgin this has been Mayor Kaptain,
who truly is concerned about our residents' health.
Our department has three areas of strategic focus:
conservation, social equity, and health and wellness.
And my guess is whatever your recreation agency does,
generally speaking, they're gonna focus on similar areas.
We have a national organization,
National Recreational Park Association,
that talks about these three pillars, they call them,
and I think they're pretty generic throughout the community.
So as we talk about potential partners for you to engage,
I'd encourage you to check out your local
park and rec agency and see if one of their pillars,
their areas of strategic focus, is health and wellness.
And if that's the case, they would be a really good agency
to start with in terms of partnership and engagement
for health and wellness initiatives.
Here's just some of the example of some of the organizations
that our departments had as health and wellness partners
and a lot of these partnerships go back
before Activate Elgin, which I'll talk about a little bit.
But you can see we have a hospital, we have a grocery store,
we have the university and the library,
so it's kind of a mix of public and private, non-profit,
for-profit partners.
And again, as you think about your community
and who you can partner about,
I'd encourage you to look into these different areas
of different types of organizations and just partners
and people that are stakeholders in your community.
As a city, oftentimes we look at issues in our communities
and think that we're the ones that have to solve them
but the reality is many of these issues
are way too complex and we don't have
the expertise to address them.
And so what we've kind of figured out is that
there's many organizations in our community
that have other resources and expertise and things that
are better than ours or different than ours
and complimentary.
As this slide shows, we've decided and found out
the best way to approach these tough issues is not to be
the hub but be one of the spokes.
When it comes to community wellness,
our department feels like we're just one of the spokes.
And as we talk today, you'll hear it from
some of the other spokes that have come alongside us
to deal with these issues of community health and wellness.
And again, as you look in your community,
I'd encourage you to look at some,
maybe some non-traditional partners,
partners that you hadn't thought about dealing with
in the past or you didn't have something in common.
Do a little research and find out who in your community
might be concerned about your residents' health and wellness
and reach out to them and ask them if they would
be one of the spokes.
I want to talk a little bit about Activate Elgin
because that's really how we all came together.
Activate Elgin was created back in 2006
and actually this was led off by our local YMCA.
It was their initiative and it was an off-shoot
of the Pioneering Healthier Communities Initiative,
which was a nationwide initiative back in the early 2000s.
And in 2006 we created a coalition of organizations,
again many different types of organizations,
that came together on a regular basis and identified issues,
health and wellness issues in the communities,
then looked for solutions.
During the start-up phase there were probably
about 10 or 11 organizations and through those years
from 2006 and on, many have come and gone
but we're still about the same number,
10 or 11 organizations and that seems to be a good number
to get a good cross-section of your community and,
you know, manage both sides,
and a good number of stakeholders and kind of deal with
the issues you had identified.
This next slide just shows some of the logos
of the partners that are currently engaged.
And again, this is something that kind of changes
from year to year and even throughout
the course of the year.
As we get into some more events and activities,
some of those are attractive to other organizations
and businesses and the school and that's when some of them
will come aboard for a while,
depending on what we have going on at that time and place
and how relevant it is to their mission
or their business organization.
Early on with Activate Elgin,
one of the things that we got involved with
and really helped us a lot was grant giving.
We were fortunate enough, one of our real good partners
has been Kane County Health Department and back in
the early start-up dates, probably 2008,
we received a $40,000 grant from them.
And we, in turn, turned around and gave out
35 mini grants to, there was businesses,
there was faith-based organizations,
there was different neighborhood groups,
there was schools that were involved.
And we gave the grants out for a short-term wellness project
and it was great because we were able
to multiply our efforts,
we identified some great stakeholders and future partners
through that process and it was a great way for us
to get introduced in the community.
As you form these coalitions,
your group becomes much better positioned
to get those types of grants.
The people that are, that give me these grants
are out there looking for communities that have
engaged stakeholders, not just one organization
but multiple organizations.
If your organization right now may not qualify
for a grant but once you start one of these coalitions,
that coalition may get it accomplished the same,
through that coalition the same things.
We talked about some more initiatives that have been
associated with Activate Elgin through the years.
As I mentioned, our mayor is very involved with it.
We have a program that's called Walk with the Mayor.
It typically starts the end of May and runs to September
and for the most part every other Wednesday we have
a neighborhood walk.
We move that all around our community.
It's a way for us to encourage people to get out and walk.
It's a way for people to meet their neighbors.
Often they don't get to meet their neighbors.
People just don't get out and visit with people
like they used to and so it gives a format for that.
It's a way for our city to talk to residents
about their concerns and for our stakeholders
to introduce their programs and services to residents
as they go on these walks.
We also have a Mayor's Walking Challenge that happens
in June where we challenge different groups
that form teams and walk.
The challenging format, that's another similar activity
that we're reaching out to the community,
trying to engage them in the healthy exercise of walking
but also just to make community connectors
and to make our community a better place to live and work.
But through the years, what's kind of surfaced
as our flagship event is March into Health.
And here are some pictures and slides from some back
March into Health events.
March into Health's been around since 2013 and I'm not gonna
talk a whole lot about that because Danielle Hansen,
who chairs that, heads it up,
she's done a wonderful job with that,
is gonna get into more details about that.
But we kind of look at that as a way to kick off
the health year for our organization and just the way
to reach out to the public and kind of set the table,
not only for all of those events,
but also for the events through the course of the year.
- [Danielle] Thank you, Randy.
We're gonna introduce Mary Carol now to talk about
Presence Health.
- [Mary Carol] Hello, this is Mary Carol as Danielle said.
I represent Presence Saint Joseph Hospital
and when I'm out in the community doing wellness
and prevention activities, a lot of people ask, you know,
why is a hospital interested in wellness and prevention?
Isn't a hospital just a place
where you go when you are sick?
And while that's true, we have a lot of sick people
that come to the hospital, a hospital,
especially not-for-profit hospitals should be very vested
in maintaining good health in their communities.
I'm gonna share with you the mission, vision, and values
of Presence Health.
I won't take the time to read each of those statements
to you but I've underlined some of the keywords
that represent our dedication to improving the health
of our community.
You'll note that our mission is not to do open-heart surgery
or to draw your blood or to set your broken bones.
But you'll see on the slide a lot of emphasis
on the word communities, on partnership, on collaboration,
respect, serving the poor, and serving the vulnerable
to demonstrate our commitment to the community
to not only treat the injured and the ill,
but to maintain the health of the entire community.
All not-for-profit hospitals,
in order to maintain their tax exempt status,
are actually required to provide benefit to the community
that they serve, and that's above and beyond
the treatment for the ill and the injured.
We use a lot of acronyms in healthcare so you'll see
the C-H-N-A on this screen and you're gonna hear me
say the China and I'm referring to
the Community Health Needs Assessment.
As we're looking to provide benefit
to the community we served, it's not just about thinking,
oh, let's go do a blood pressure screening here
or let's go do a grocery store chore at that store.
We take time to assess what are the healthcare needs
in our community and then plan our services
and our programming around that.
And that assessment of our community health needs
is done also as a partnership.
It's conducted by the five hospitals in our county,
which is Kane County, a few other community partners
in collaboration with the Kane County Health Department.
We do this about every four years or so
and you'll see a picture of our last report.
Then my next acronym is CHIP,
our Community Health Improvement Plan.
Once we conduct our CHNA,
our Community Health Needs Assessment,
we take time to analyze all of the data that we've collected
to identify what our Community Health Improvement Plan
should be, or our CHIP.
The Community Health Improvement Plan brings together
over 60 organizations in Kane County,
including libraries,
working together to analyze the data and to creating
what we find from the data to be our priority areas.
Our current Community Health Improvement Plan
identified our areas of focus as chronic disease,
behavioral health, and income and education.
I'm gonna take a minute now to share with you
our objectives under each of those three categories
and then what some of the initiatives that we are
working on, especially things that we partnered
with our libraries to do.
For our first initiative, chronic disease,
we've got several sets of objectives and goals there
but highlighting, we've broken down how can we
address chronic disease in our community,
breaking that down to focusing on
the fruit and vegetable consumption of the adults
in our county.
Our goal that we increase the number of people
that are eating five or more servings
of fruits and vegetables
and that were decreasing the number of people
who report to us that they don't have any leisure time,
physical activity, as part of their daily lifestyle.
And then some of the initiatives that we've put into place
to help us to achieve these goals are partnering
with local markets to provide fresh fruit at programs.
You heard Randy mention the fresh market in Elgin,
one of our local grocery stores.
And here is a picture of a representative from that market
at one of our March into Health events where they
brought a boat load of fresh apples, oranges, bananas,
all kinds of things so that all the participants
who were attending got to have a nice healthy piece of fruit
at that program.
We've also hosted gardening programs
with our cooperative extension, garden clubs, or nurseries
to help people to identify, you know,
regardless of their living situation,
if they've got a back yard where they can
plant a garden plot or if they live in an apartment
and have a balcony and can just put a pot with some herbs
in it on their balcony,
how they can participate in gardening.
Libraries can display their exercise DVDs
or exercise downloads so that residents are aware
of what they can check out from their library
to help them to exercise,
especially if they don't have access to a fitness center.
Walking Book Club has been a great initiative at
the Gale Borden Library where a group comes together
and takes a walk and discusses a book
that they've all read in common.
They're not only getting stimulation of sharing the book
but a little physical activity as well.
And then consider hosting a cooking demonstration
with either a local chef, a dietician,
a home economics teacher.
We've even had a chef from our local school district
as part of March into Health events do programming
along with us.
Lots and lots of things that you can do,
especially partnering with your libraries
to address chronic disease in your community.
Our next area of focus
from the Community Health Improvement Plan
was improving mental health in our community.
Our goals there were to make the adults in our community
more aware of the mental health resources
that are available.
And some of the initiatives that we have in place to do that
include partnering with your local park district
or other providers who offer meditation, yoga classes,
or chair massages.
A lot of these people are happy to come out
and do these kind of things for free because it's actually
really good marketing for the providers and so forth.
And if it's an enjoyable experience for the people that come
it might be a new client for some of those folks.
Partnering with local hospitals or other agencies
to offer depression screenings.
There's actually a national depression screening day
that you can, you know, use as an opportunity
to offer these screenings.
The library might be able to have a brochure rack
holding information on the resources that are available
for behavioral health issues in your particular community.
The picture on the right is actually a labyrinth
that is at Presence Saint Joseph Hospital
and just last year we partnered with the Gale Borden Library
and a local minister to do a program as part of
March into Health to educate people on how to
use a labyrinth.
Now, if you aren't fortunate enough to have a brick
outdoor labyrinth like we do, there are finger labyrinths
that you can download from the internet.
It could be as simple as that to help people use that
as a resource for stress management and so forth.
March into Health is always in March so unfortunately
one of the few times that we had snow in our area last March
was when we did our labyrinth program.
So, thank goodness for the finger labyrinths
because that helped us save the program.
Then our last area of focus is on income and education
and our goal here may sound strange to you
when we're talking about, you know,
improving the health of our community.
Our goal to address income and education
is to improve the four-year graduation rate
in the public school districts in our county.
The reason that we identified that,
if you think about kind of a chain of events here,
when people are not graduating from high school,
their likelihood of getting a good job decreases.
If they're not getting a good job,
their likelihood of obtaining
health insurance probably decreases.
And without health insurance,
then their opportunities to participate in, you know,
in seeing their healthcare provider and getting good health
is affected as well.
Starting with graduation from high school,
that can ultimately affect the health of that individual
or their future family.
A few of our initiatives to address income and education
in our community are really partnering
with local high schools, identifying student book clubs,
homework help hotlines,
student advisory boards for the library,
bringing in students and getting their opinions
on what their peers are looking for in the public library.
I know this second one is one that my kids
in high school had on library set-up day, or I'm sorry,
the locker set-up day at both middle schools
and high schools, a library was present to share
the services that they have to help students
to be successful in high school.
Offering ACT and SAT prep classes and practice tests
to the local teenagers.
What's not on the slide but is helpful to the parents, too,
if you're a parent of a college student
you probably know about the FASFA and the challenges
that families sometimes have in understanding
and completing the FASFA to get financial aid for college.
That's another resource that can also be helpful to parents.
Hosting a career day or a job fair at the local library.
Partnering with the school librarians
to help bridge services during weekends
or on school holidays.
I know, again, my local library had copies
of all the textbooks that the kids needed
so when it was, you know, eight o'clock at night
and the kids realized that they forgot to bring a book home
that they needed, we were running over to the library
to get access to that book so that was a real help.
And then, finally, hosting English as a second language
classes or programs.
If you're a diverse community like ours
that can be very helpful.
Lots and lots of resources and ways
that healthcare providers and libraries
and recreation facilities can all work together
to improve the health of their communities.
- [Danielle] Thank you, Mary Carol.
Now we're gonna hear from Erin Donlan
from Gale Borden Library.
- [Erin] Thank you.
The Gale Borden Public Library District
serves over 144,000 residents.
It covers not just Elgin but also South Elgin
and some parts of some neighboring cities as well.
The mission of the Gale Borden Public Library
is to be the library where
imagination and transformation flourish
fueled by the power of community.
We strive to be a good partner with other organizations
because we can accomplish so much more in our community
with our partners than we ever could alone.
I represent the library and the county's
Community Health Improvement Plan
that Mary Carol just talked about.
We were invited to join the executive committee
because we were already involved with other committees
with the Health Department.
We had already been making a conscious effort
to embed ourselves in the community.
The goal of the Community Health Improvement Plan
are to improve some specific health measures in a county.
What that really means is we want X number of people
in the community to make changes in their behavior.
As we know, it's mid-January,
a lot of people have already broken
their New Year's resolutions, change can be really hard.
Part of the way the library can support the goals
and the plan is just to provide our residents
with opportunities to support and make those changes.
We can do that in passive ways by putting up book displays
on weight loss or brochures for agencies.
And sometimes we're just one more voice in the community.
We can be one more place where people are hearing about
how they can improve their health.
Sometimes we can be more active like the programming
Danielle will talk about.
And we also can support individuals who have decided
to make changes by connecting them
with information and referrals.
Health literacy is important in any community.
Health information can be really confusing
even for people who are highly educated.
And it's harder for those who aren't.
Many people have difficulty understanding health information
because they don't always have the background knowledge
they need to understand what their doctor is telling them.
If they've reached a point where they have a health problem,
they might be feeling really stressed or overwhelmed.
Of course, librarians aren't medical professionals
so we can't help them interpret what their doctor has said
but we can evaluate how well
they're understanding their situation
and try to provide them with materials at the right level.
We then always encourage them to discuss what they've read
with their medical professional.
Navigating the healthcare system can be pretty complex
and it's a lot harder for people who are struggling to read
or don't know where to go for help.
Like all libraries, we're in the business
of improving literacy in the community.
In our strategic plan, one of our priorities is to
focus on 21st century literacies which include
not just basic literacy but also learning
how to evaluate information, how to use technology,
and health literacy in general.
As we saw, increased income and education levels
are correlated with better health outcomes
which is why the CHIP plan has income and education
as one of its priorities.
I'm on that committee and we've been working to identify
all the groups in our community who are providing programs
that help people in these areas.
Often there are small groups that are working independently,
which can make it hard for people to find
the right help for them.
If we can bridge those gaps sometimes we can just do
a better job of referring people.
At the reference desk, we respond to health questions
in a variety of ways.
We typically have people who walk in with questions
but we also offer one-on-one appointments.
Sometimes people have a specific question
and we can help them research the answer.
Sometimes they don't want to share and we'll just
ask a vague question about where the health area is.
We do try to do a reference interview when possible
but if not, we'll give them a short tour of the area
so they can find what they want after we leave.
We always refer them to additional sources of information
like library databases and websites like MedlinePlus.
When it's appropriate we refer them to health resources
in the area but we also have those brochures out
in a display so people can take them
without having to talk to us if they're not comfortable.
If you're not comfortable evaluating health information
or doing health reference interviews,
there are some really good opportunities
for professional development.
I've taken courses through NNLM and I also recommend
looking into the Consumer Health Information Specialization
through the Medical Library Association.
Now we know, of course, that a lot of people
aren't coming to the library to ask a librarian
about their health question.
Often people go straight online to learn about their health.
They can find some really good information there
but it's often mixed up with information
that's not so helpful.
Some of it may be out of date, biased, or just untrue.
The library can help people evaluate those websites
and we can recommend sources
that are reliable and trustworthy
but not if we're not talking to them.
We have to look for opportunities to promote those services
and that's where partnering and programs come in
and Danielle will tell you more about that now.
- [Danielle] Thank you, Erin.
What can libraries bring to the table to support
community-wide health programming?
What are our strengths?
Book lists, databases, resources lists, links,
our IT and access departments that help with programs,
online entry forms that help us with March into Health,
programming, compilation,
and keeping things organized for me,
technology and room setups, community development
and your youth departments also host programs
and partner with partner programs.
We have a lot of people coming to the library
to present programs that are in our communities
so we don't have to develop programming.
A lot of times we are supporting programs
that are coming to us if it fits with what our mission
and our vision is and what we can do.
Creative services or your marketing department
can design the marketing, they design,
creative services designs our brochure and posters
for library programs whether we're sponsoring them
or our partners are sponsoring them
and they're hosting them in the library.
How can we?
Understanding partner strengths is very important.
In our group, Activate Elgin, we have a fiduciary,
we have a partner that does in-kind,
we have partners that do in-kind help
like brochure printing, 5,000 copies of the brochure.
Kane County Health Department does that.
We have translation, people who do translation.
Planning, different aspects of planning,
the March into Health committee, outreach to businesses,
professional speakers or presenters
that are in our community that we can tap
and host at our library.
Also, we want to think about volunteers
and the creative use of volunteers, if you are able.
Some libraries aren't able to access volunteers directly
but if you can, think about creative uses.
We have an amazing amount of talented people
in our community and they want to help libraries
in different ways.
They want to use their skills and their abilities
and the things that they enjoy doing,
so shelving books, not so much.
Planning a program, face painting, presenting a program,
this is what they're interested in.
Think about developing maybe volunteer job descriptions
that fit your volunteers and fit the needs that you have
for your library.
This, in the picture, is Joan and Joanne.
They help me plan programs for March into Health
and other events that we host at the library.
They are people that always sit at the table, greet people,
make sure that people are checked in when they are coming
for organizational tables or speakers.
There's ways people can support you in the ways
you want to reach out for the kind of programming
that this is.
This is our kick-off event last year.
Actually, the picture on the left is Ralph of Ralph's World.
That was part of a program that we did two years ago
and then on your right is last years March into Health
cover of the brochure where we had
the American Ninja Warriors.
Also on the front you'll see we have grand prizes
for this series.
All of our partners come together to present programming
throughout the community and this is
the front of the brochure.
We have hosted the March into Health kick-offs
at the library and that kicks off all the series
throughout the month.
We have chef demos and tastings.
We have fresh fruit from the local grocery shops, you heard.
Organizational tables, prize drawings for the event,
and prize entry for the grand prize drawing at each event.
That starts with the March into Health kick-off.
Last year we had the Ninja Warriors,
they did an interactive program.
This year we'll have a program called Circ-,
a group called CircEsteem come out.
And they are an interactive circus program
so they're gonna be interacting with families,
they're gonna be juggling fruit in the rotunda in the lobby
around the area before the main event happens.
We always have a bike and prize packages.
You can probably see that later on the slides
where it talks about golf, swim packages, fitness packages,
and these are in-kind donations and partnerships
with businesses and our partner organizations.
Every year we have about 20-30 events
and we try to make sure that these programs
reach all demographics and all parts of our community.
We want to make sure that we are giving everybody
an opportunity to come out.
The brochure goes into the Gale Borden newsletter
that goes out to 55,000 homes in our district,
paid for by the Activate Elgin group.
We come together, you know, we raise the funds
and this is not out of the library's pocket.
The library donates staff time
and then also creative services and programming rooms.
You don't have to have a financial burden
if you move into a project like this.
You'll see that there's a Spanish language
on the right-hand side in the green box.
Elgin, like Randy said, is about 47% Latino
and we want to engage and make sure that we are
programming to all of our community in the way
that they would like to be communicated to.
We work hard to have a variety of programs
that reach community with health and wellness opportunities.
I'm just gonna go over a couple of things
that we're planning for this March that I got in,
we're just compiling that now.
We have an Eco-healthy Rakow Kids
so that'll be at our branch, our Rakow branch.
We have Kickstart Your Garden, Food and Fitness Concerns
at Presence Saint Joes, Randy's hosting a U46 program here
on nutrition and have,
it's a no-school day so that'll be interesting.
We have warm composting for families,
healthy travels, and lunch-and-learn,
and this will feature,
this will be at the Senior Services Center
but it'll be a Gale Borden program
from our Tales and Travels outreach group
that focuses on memory issues and programming
to people with dementia and they're going to Greece,
the birthplace of the Olympics,
and they're gonna highlight some different things
and do a little exercise with the seniors.
We have a Grow Your Own Salad,
we have a Walk-n-Hop to see the park.
I mean, these are things that, you know,
aren't gonna cost your programmers or your library
a lot of money.
Certainly these are things that you can do.
You can do craft things.
Again, you can take a look at this later,
the full program description from last year.
And you can check out Activate Elgin's Facebook page
when we have the brochure for this year,
if you're interested.
Engaging partners is a lot of fun.
You know, partners surprise you with the fun programs
and things that they bring.
Last year, School District 246 came to the library
and did an overall wellness and nutrition program
and they brought the Wheel of Nutrition
and hand washing stations and so all ages came and,
you know, they had a good time, they had prizes,
they walked away with snacks.
And then they also brought this banana
that walked around the library and greeted people
and brought them to the program.
You just never know.
We always have surprises with partners
and their creative ability to design programming
that's fun and interesting for the community.
On your left, that's Dr. Sweat and he's at a school
and he's doing a program with kids.
Dr. Sweat is from the Center of Elgin,
Randy's domain, and I think that he does,
he's gonna do another program this year
so we were really excited about how he engages all ages.
I think he's doing one for all ages this year
about chair exercising.
And then Mary Carol, you'll see on the right,
she is at one of our March into Health programs.
Looks like that's two years ago from the brochure
I see on the table.
And she's engaging, we have tables all around the lobby,
so probably about 20 tables
of partner and sponsor organizations
and it's just a really good
opportunity for families to engage directly with
the organizations that have
important health information for them.
This is a senior program that we did here at the center,
Gale Borden partnered with the center to do
the film screening of The Age of Champions
and this is about the Senior Olympics.
And this is the seniors doing a little bit of exercise
before the film.
In fact, they had exercise and then they had a lunch.
And after that, we met one of the people
who attended the program actually had an Olympic medal
and so his daughter brought him.
He wasn't able to talk a lot about what he had accomplished
but he was so excited to share that medal.
It's really interesting who you're engaging
in your community.
And then on the left is another program we had
at the library that focused on, this is a professor
that focused on health and wellness as you're aging.
This is, these are our big winners.
We have, we have had grand prizes of WeFit
and then we've had grand prizes of bikes that we have
gone out and partnered with community businesses
who sell bikes and they're really excited to partner with us
to get people interested in biking.
We have a lot of, we have a lot of bike,
we're on the river, you heard the train,
we have train tracks, we have a river,
we have a bike path, we have a lot of,
Randy oversees a huge Parks and Rec Department area,
a lot of parks, walking paths.
The library is on the river, right on the walking path,
so we want to get people engaged and interested
in getting on the walking paths and engaging
on the bike trails and this is a really good way to do it.
On your right is our last year's winner, Steve,
and on his shirt is talking about worm composting.
He's actually gonna be a presenter this year at the library
as a volunteer.
He's gonna present worm kings and so engaging families
in worm composting and so you never know
who you're gonna find in your community
with this kind of programming, who's gonna come back
and want to do something to give back to your efforts
so that's pretty exciting.
On the back of our brochure is always a shout out
to our tremendous sponsors.
Even though some of them change from time-to-time
we always get, you know, exciting support.
And we want to make sure that people know
as they move forward after March what is happening.
The mayor, we put the Mayor's Walk on the back
with the dates, we put the Mayor's Walking Challenge.
We usually have a challenge Randy talked about.
Then the Kane County One Billion Steps Challenge.
Throughout the spring and summer, there's more opportunities
for people to engage online or at events
for health and wellness throughout the community.
We also have the Facebook page so, you know,
if you want to check that out
we post a lot of things on there.
As a library, you know, this looks a little overwhelming
but don't be overwhelmed.
This project started several years ago and it has grown.
We started with, I think, 10 programs,
it was a one-pager,
it started out really slow.
We started to find our talent and programming for health
and come up with creative ideas, engaged more partners.
People actually, once you start a series like this,
or you start programming for health,
either during a certain month or during a week,
I know Naperville did something that was interesting
around wellness and health and financial wellness
so that was, you know, you might want to look that up.
And I think that was just a week or two.
It doesn't have to be a month long, you know,
you can create whatever you'd like to create but, you know,
find out who your partners are,
who are your natural partners.
Building partnerships for programming takes time
and there's bumps,
there's adjustments that you have to consider,
but when you're done you're gonna create
a really nice program series for your community
or programming for your community because you're gonna have
real solid partners who are invested
and are doing their part to make it successful.
So who are your partners for health?
Just, you know, just a little bit of a summary
about identifying literacy and health needs
of your community, understanding your own mission, vision,
strengths, you know, what your resources are as far as
building programming like this,
understanding what your partners' missions and strengths are
and where you can weave those together.
Of course, I don't know if you can see on your screen
but it's a little blurred out,
it says where do your missions intersect?
Find out, you know, what your strengths,
what your natural strengths are and
who your community partners, what their strengths are,
what can you build together than promotes a literate
and healthy community.
It's sometimes it's just sitting around a table
having a conversation, inviting people to a meeting.
We have a lot of meetings at our library.
We have all kinds of sub-committees, ha ha ha.
I'm sure everybody else does, too.
You know, what does a health sub-committee look like?
What does a community health committee look like?
Is there already one in your community
that maybe you're not aware of or you have thought,
hey, you know, I could be part of this?
How does it fit?
I think we've shared a little bit about how it might
fit for you, how you can get there.
And then I think we're gonna
look for some healthy questions.
If you want to come back on, Bobbi.
- Yeah, I'm here.
Great job, guys, thank you.
I'm just so impressed with the community partnership
that you guys have put together and how involved
everyone is in this partnership.
Hopefully everybody got some really great ideas.
I tried to Tweet some things out as fast as I could type.
I do have a couple of questions from the chat box
I'll go ahead and read.
I think the obvious one is will the slide deck be available
after this presentation?
Is that something you'd be willing to share with me
and I can email out?
- [Danielle] Absolutely.
- Okay, great.
What will happen is within the next day or so,
I'll send out an email that includes this PowerPoint deck
along with a link to the survey about the webinar.
And again, that also contains the CE certificate.
Keep your eyes peeled for that.
Any other questions from attendees?
Maybe while they're typing or thinking,
maybe each one of your could tell me what your personal
favorite program was.
- [Danielle] My personal favorite programs
are the kick-offs because it brings
all of our efforts together, our partners and sponsors
get to see the people that come through the door
who are engaged.
Typically we have 200-350 people come through the door,
it depends on usually the weather.
We're hoping for a bigger turnout this year.
We can fit about 235 people in our community rooms
for the main event onstage but we like to have some time
ahead of time
for the organizations to kind of share.
We have the roaming juggler and, you know,
a lot of activity, and some food tasting/sampling,
and really gets people excited.
You know, they want to put their name in for the drawings
and, you know, I think that's my favorite event.
- [Randy] Yeah, for me, a similar type of thing,
the first picture that was shown with the mayor out front
with that group, that was one of our kick-off weekends, too.
That was at the Center of Elgin and we had a couple hundred
people in there and, again, Ron Doctor Sweat was leading us
and the mayor got up there, and the mayor showed up,
I didn't understand what the mayor
was gonna get up to with Ron,
so he showed up in his sweatshirt and his jeans
and his tennis shoes on and started exercising with Ron
and also I'm looking at the mayor
and the mayor's really starting to sweat.
In fact, he had a shirt on and a sweatshirt
and he's hanging in there and Ron's going and I'm just
off to the left of the mayor in that picture.
You could see me and I'm trying to signal to Ron
to wind it down because I'm concerned for the mayor.
At that time he was about 65-66 years old,
sweating like crazy, and Ron is getting into it
and the people are getting into it and I've got to try
to get this thing toned down.
I guess that was one my favorite one although I had
a little bit of concern for mayor himself at that point
in time but fortunately nothing happened.
The mayor's in good shape, it worked out well.
But that's, out of all these events,
the one that pops into my memory.
- [Mary Carol] This is Mary Carol.
I'd probably throw out there some of our walking challenges.
You know, that's kind of a different venue
because it's not come at this date at this time
to this place but something that encourages activity,
you know, whenever you can fit it into your day.
And it's sustained because the challenges are usually
at least a month long.
The American Public Health Association Billion Step March,
I think it is, that we participate in as a county
is actually several months long so that's one
that encourages movement when you can do it
and for a sustained period of time.
- [Erin] I know one that's coming up that I'm kind of
excited about is Health App, so a program that one of our
librarians, Monica Dumbrowski, is going to lead
that walks people through all the health apps.
That's another way That libraries can support things
is getting people information about digital options
and how do you navigate the health app world.
- Great.
Alright, oh, go ahead.
- [Randy] Yeah, the technology part, I think,
is really important and you just heard two examples of that
and we are really concerned that Activate Health
and both your obesity rate among children.
And children, less and less want to be active
but more and more they want to be involved in technology.
It's kind of like if we move to that format
and we have things like Mary Carol said
the Mayor's Walk and Challenge, we'd push that out
through a technology platform
like the walker trackers we use and some of these other apps
are just informing them.
That way we feel like we can draw them back into
being active through technology.
That's a nice way to use
the latest and greatest in technology
to get these kids moving.
- Okay, I want to get to a couple of questions
from our attendees.
One of the first ones is do you have,
do any of you offer specific classes by library staff
on healthy resources or evaluating health information
on the web.
- [Erin] We've occasionally done specific classes.
We find that sometimes it's easier to partner
with something else that's going on and add that
health literacy, information literacy piece to it
because a lot of times people aren't gonna come
just for that one thing but if they're already there
we can catch a lot more people that way.
- Yeah.
- [Erin] Try to combine it with other activities
that are going on.
- And I seem to hear that a lot from public libraries
when I get out and talk to them that the class specific
on it sometimes doesn't do very well.
- [Erin] Sometimes people want that information
when they have the information need.
So they're not necessarily planning ahead,
oh, I'm gonna take a class on this because at some point
in the future I'm probably gonna want to learn about it.
It typically, when they have a question is when
they want to learn how to research it.
- And the next question I see is how enthusiastic
have individual community members been
and what programs have been the most successful
and/or well-attended?
- [Danielle] Boy, that's a hard question.
We have about two to three thousand people that enter
our drawing so it's hard to know.
I know Mary Carol, one of our 2016 winners, no, yeah,
2016 winner actually was very excited.
She had gone to three different events and she continued
her program with Mary Carol.
She was in a class with Mary Carol at the hospital
so I believe she came with her kids and her family.
Also, Elgin is
made up of a lot of young families,
up and coming families, and you'll see a lot
of family programming in the March into Health
and we have to be very thoughtful about making sure
we're programming to seniors,
making sure we have something for teens,
making sure everybody has because most people want to
put on family programs because that's what Elgin is.
- [Randy] Yeah, if they're family-oriented that's gonna
bring bigger numbers.
I think the prizes we give, the incentive,
we're incentivizing people to come out to these things.
I think that's an important part of it.
I know Danielle on our committee works real hard
to get those prizes donated.
You know, each and every one of these individual
20-25 events, at the end of that event
there's a prize that's given out so we know
that's a part of it.
You know, we feel like we have to do that
to incentivize people to come out and do that.
I think that probably some of the biggest ones
we've ever had were some of those
family group fitness programs.
I know we did, we've done some other, some walking programs
that were pretty popular.
I think it's gonna vary in communities.
Every community's different so what works for you
is probably gonna be a little bit different
than works for us but there's gonna be a lot in common, too,
with people in those types of programs.
- [Danielle] Our senior programs are pretty well-attended,
our planting, children's planting programs
are always booked so if you have a local farmer
that you want to engage with, maybe a farmer's market
you can connect with somebody who might want to come
and do a planting program.
There's health fairs.
This year I think they're gonna have the jump rope warrior
at the Gale Borden Health Fair that Julianne is putting on
and that's another place where people can
engage community organizations,
learn about health information and then have like a
mini program with a presenter.
Anything you can do to get people excited about coming.
Programming is hard in general.
You never know what program's gonna go.
Something you think is gonna go doesn't,
it isn't well-attended.
I'm very surprised, all this the weather,
the weather in Chicago area is a big factor
but also people's time.
You know, the time frame that you present something,
you know, can you get people there in the afternoon,
do you have to do it in the evening?
We've really, we've had to work out the March into Health
kickoff for really for timing, for organizations,
and then for presenters and when we think people
will show up and come out on a Saturday
or a Wednesday or Thursday night.
The Zumba programs, the interactive Zumba programs
that the Y puts on.
We have another one that's gonna be going at
the Epic Air Trampoline Park.
They're a sponsor this year so they're gonna have
a free program at their trampoline park
and they're gonna have a Zumba instructor there and prizes.
You know, I'm pretty sure that'll be a good turnout.
- Great, thank you.
We have a couple of questions about
the Billion Step Challenge.
Somebody's asking can you repeat the organization
that sponsors that challenge, the name of the organization?
- [Mary Carol] That's the American
Public Health Association, so their abbreviation is is APHA.
- Okay.
- [Mary Carol] And that is going on right now.
Anyone can join it so if you go to their website,
they're using the platform called StrideKick,
and that's also a website, stridekick.com,
and you can go to that website and then look up the team
for the American Public Health Association.
But that started January 1st and it goes into April
and anyone across the country is welcome to join.
You can also create a team for your community.
We have a Kane Health Counts team representing
residents of Kane County here in Illinois.
- Great, thank you,
and I think that answers Noah's question as well.
One last question from the chat is if you guys have done
any programming or outreach to address opioid issues
in your community?
- [Danielle] There's a separate coalition
called the Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Elgin
and the library has been engaged with that group.
And they are the one, and we also have a very strong
partnership with the Elgin Police Department
and those are the
organizations that we partner with
to tackle those kind of topics.
They have the professionals in their arena
to talk about the opioid addiction,
violence, gangs, you know, any of those things
so if you can find a coalition,
if you can partner with your police department,
talk with the chief.
Elgin has an amazing outreach group in the command staff,
Commander Ana Lally, who works with us
on all kinds of programming.
She does films, moderates films for me on incarceration
and just, Not In Our Town films is a series
that we do with them.
If you go to NIOT.org you can access
all kinds of free films.
Contact your police department because these are, you know,
these are topics that they would have connections with.
Also maybe your hospitals, yeah.
Depending.
But I think it's your social service organizations
that focus on addiction.
- Alright, great.
We're right at 12:01 and that's it.
We're gonna go ahead and wrap up.
I want to thank Danielle and Erin and Mary Carol and Randy
for being with us today and sharing about
your wonderful community program.
And thanks to everyone who is on the line.
If you have any questions or concerns after this webinar,
please feel free to send me an email.
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