Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) has begun implementation of the Enhanced HIV/AIDS Prevention in the Pacific project. This project is supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and focuses on community information outreach and training. The purpose of this project is to provide librarians, educators, public health personnel, and other community members in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific with training on how to access and retrieve reliable HIV/AIDS-prevention-related information, specifically from NLM databases and other information resources including EBSCOHost databases and STAT!Ref.
Among other outreach activities, training sessions will be presented for educators attending this year’s Pacific Educational Conference (PEC) in Pago Pago, American Samoa, held July 14–17, 2008. Training sessions will also be offered to public health staff at the LBJ Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa during the same week. Additionally, library staff will be able to attend sessions during the annual Pacific Islands Association of Libraries, Archives, and Museums (PIALA) conference to be held in Yap, the Federated States of Micronesia, in November 2008.
PREL is an independent, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world. PREL bridges the gap between research, theory, and practice in education and works collaboratively with schools and school systems to provide services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation. In addition, PREL administers the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Pacific, 1 of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories funded through the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. With a commitment to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation, regardless of circumstances or geographic location, PREL has service centers in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, including American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawai‘i, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.
For additional information about this media release or PREL and its work, please contact Javier Elizondo, Director of Communications, by telephone at (808) 441-1300 or by email at elizondoj@prel.org, or visit our website at www.prel.org.
(Posted Thursday, February 12, 2009)
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