Abstract
Initiatives to improve community health often involve showing community members how to access information or providing them with health information. The Project SHARE (Student Health Advocates Redefining Empowerment) Team (the Team) at the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at University of Maryland, Baltimore, expanded upon this approach by empowering students with the skills to advocate for improved health for themselves and for their communities. Local and national partnerships contributed to the success of this multiyear project. In 2012, the Team collaborated with a local high school to deliver more than 300hours of instruction. The Team then developed a web-based modular curriculum selected by the National Area Health Education Center Organization for a national teen health information literacy project. This chapter reports on how the collaborative process was key to the success of this project to reduce health disparities and encourage health equity.
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