Primary Benefits

• Resources that might not have been easily accessible to women of color, particularly those without health insurance or with limited incomes, were made available through community-based health centers.
  
  
• Richmond area health center staff received training on using the Internet to find useful health information to support their patients. Special efforts were made to link materials written in Spanish and materials written for those with low reading levels, as these materials are not always readily available to community-based health centers.
  
  
• Public librarians throughout the region received training on finding Web-based resources to assist their consumers, including MEDLINEplus and PubMed. Librarians are now more comfortable assisting consumers with health-related information requests, and know they can contact librarians at a local academic medical center.
  
  
• Patients are learning more about their health as a result of this contract.