Covid-19 Resources

Countless COVID-19 resources have been created for immigrants and refugees as well as service providers. MO-ORA has aggregated some of those resources and categorized them here for easy access during this uneasy time.

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Order COVID-19 Tests in 150+ Languages: The U.S. Government has set up a hotline for people who have trouble using the online ordering site or need help in languages other than English. Call 1-800-232-0233 from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. to order four tests per household.

Governor Parson announced that as of April 1, Missouri is moving to an endemic phase in the response to COVID-19. This means that crisis response to the pandemic has ended and endemic surveillance will continue. A summary of the transition is available here.

  • Video - Children Keep Our Communities Strong: In this animated short from NRC-RIM, one immigrant mother explains why she chose to vaccinate her two children against COVID-19. Watch in English, Arabic, French and Russian, or watch the full playlist. More translations are on the way.

    Vaccinating Youth and Adults During Pediatric Visits: When eligible children and their adult relatives have opportunities to get vaccinated at pediatric clinics and children’s hospitals, some of the barriers to vaccinating the whole family are reduced. Learn more in this promising practice featuring the New Orleans Children’s Health Project.

    Vaccine Toolkit for Schools and School Partners: Now that vaccines are authorized for children as young as 5, consider partnering with your local school district to promote vaccines and other COVID-19 prevention efforts like testing and contact tracing. NRC-RIM has resources, fact sheets, and best practices to support your work. Learn more.

    Updated Fact Sheets on Vaccines for Kids: NRC-RIM’s fact sheet on vaccines for children and youth has been updated to reflect the new age of eligibility for children. Check out their ready-to-download and customizable materials in 40+ languages.

    New Fact Sheet - Vaccines for Children and Youth: Last week we released a conversation guide on vaccines for children and youth, and translations are underway of a new fact sheet on the same topic. These resources will help you guide your contacts in RIM communities as they make the best decision for their family.

    Video Q&A - Vaccines for Children and Youth: Dr. Anisa Ibrahim, a pediatrician at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, answers frequently asked questions about vaccinating children. Questions range from “Are COVID-19 vaccines safe for children? What about side-effects?” to “Do kids really need the vaccine? I heard they don’t get very sick from COVID-19.” Watch the video series.

    Rise of the Variants: An Animated Video for Young People: The International Rescue Committee (IRC) worked with youth and young adult ambassadors to create an animated video about COVID-19 variants and how to stay protected. Ambassadors provided input on the storyboard animation, content and key themes, and the voice and tone of the voiceover artist. Watch now.

    Answers to Questions About Vaccines for Children and Youth: Explore answers to commonly asked questions about the vaccine that may help your contacts in refugee, immigrant and migrant communities in making the best decision for their child.

    Pregnancy and breastfeeding: While much is still unknown about the risks of COVID-19 to newborns born to mothers with COVID-19, the CDC has provided guidance for new and expecting mothers.

    New Translations Now Available: In addition to English, translations of NRC-RIM’s popular fact sheets are now available in the following languages:

  • As Flu Continues to Spread, Know When to Test for COVID-19: Even as summer approaches, flu continues to spread nationwide. If you feel sick, the only way to know for sure if you have COVID-19 or the flu is to get tested. Find key messages about testing in NRC-RIM’s conversation guide, or view their testing fact sheet in 40+ languages. More information about COVID-19 and the flu is available in their translated flu fact sheet.

    Video Series: Why Vaccines Matter: In this video, they explain four top reasons why it is important to get vaccinated and stay up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccines. Available in English and seven other languages.

    Welcome Booklet for Refugees: This booklet provides refugees and their families with information in their primary language on COVID-19 prevention measures to protect themselves and others during the COVID-19 pandemic after arriving in the United States. Learn more.

    Rise of the Variants (Updated): This video, created by NRC-RIM partners the International Rescue Committee and informed by youth ambassadors, explains what COVID-19 variants are, how they emerge, and how to protect against them. Originally intended for an audience of youth and young adults, they have served as a valuable educational resource for IRC clients of all ages. Available in English, Dari, Nepali, and Arabic, with more on the way.

    New Translations: Vaccine Decisions Are Confidential: We know that some people are interested in getting vaccinated but are reluctant to do so because of social or political pressure. These new assets communicate that there are options for people in this situation to get their healthcare needs met. Now available in English, Russian, Ukrainian, and Congolese Swahili.

    Translations of Instructions for At-home COVID-19 Tests: NRC-RIM compiled instructions on how to take at-home COVID-19 tests for seven brands in a combined 30 languages in video or written format curated from organizations across the country.

    Save Your Card Flyers Now Translated: A simple flyer from the International Rescue Committee explains what a vaccine card is, why it is important to save it, and what to do if you lose it. Now available in English, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Nepali, Pashto, Congolese Swahili and Tigrinya. Download now.

    New Testing Resources: NRC-RIM’s newest conversation guide explains why it is important to get tested for COVID-19 and how to stay safe regardless of the results. A new fact sheet on the same topic is available in English with more languages on the way.

    Fact Sheet - Boosters: Find these facts and more in NRC-RIM’s newest fact sheet, available now in English with translations on the way. For more details, check out their conversation guide.

    COVID-19 Vaccine - Know the Numbers: This simple infograph, created by NRC-RIM partner International Rescue Committee (IRC), explains the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in English, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Nepali, Pashto, Swahili (Congolese), Tigrinya and Ukrainian.

    Welcome Video for Afghan New Arrivals: NRC-RIM worked with our partners at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to create videos for Afghan new arrivals that explain the COVID-19 situation in the United States. Watch videos in Dari or Pashto, and download the script in English for reference.

    New COVID-19 Champion Videos: Testimonials are successful strategies that portray real stories from community members to communicate trusted information and make positive behavior changes. Learn more in this promising practice, and view this Youtube playlist for examples in 13 languages.

    COVID-19 Resources for Afghan New Arrivals: Afghan new arrivals who are ready to talk about COVID-19 vaccines and other pandemic response measures can use the resources NRC-RIM has created in Dari, Pashto, Farsi and English, available here for download.

    COVID-19 Vaccine Informational Videos for Refugee Communities, from Church World Service (CWS), aim to ensure refugee and immigrant communities have access to clear and correct information about the COVID vaccines. The videos are available in multiple refugee languages with more to come.

    The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) has compiled a translated materials library with fact sheets, posters, videos, audio records and other resources in English and more than 100 languages for free. You can access the library here.

    COVID-19 Vaccine Informational Videos for Refugee Communities, from Church World Service (CWS), aim to ensure refugee and immigrant communities have access to clear and correct information about the COVID vaccines. Currently available in English, Arabic, Nepali, Swahili and Spanish with more translations forthcoming.

    Quick Facts Social Media Assets: Unbranded and ready to use, these quick facts are available in Arabic, Burmese, Dari, English, French, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Lingala, Nepali, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Swahili (Congolese), Tigrinya and Ukrainian. Download here.

    Healthcare providers from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds share why they chose to get the COVID-19 vaccine in videos in Spanish, Somali, Amharic and Farsi.

    El Centro Inc. has released a toolkit of COVID-19 media products in Spanish about COVID-19. Click here to view.

    How Can Vaccine and Antibody Studies Move So Quickly and Still Be Safe? This video, available in English and 37 other languages, explains COVID-19 vaccine development in under four minutes.

    Guidance for Large or Extended Families Living in the Same Household: Now available in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, French, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Karen, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Marshallese, Nepali, Pashto, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

    The FDA has released multi-language information about the Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines.

    AALV in Burlington, VT, has produced a music video in Kiswahili (subtitled in English) to engage and educate the community as well as promote getting the COVID vaccine.

    The CDC has updated its COVID-19 Public Service Announcements (PSAs) webpage. The following PSAs are now available in Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Tagalog, and Ukrainian:

    • Key Times to Wear a Mask

    • How to Wear a Mask

    • Key Times to Practice Social Distancing

    • I Think/Know I had COVID-19

    Fact sheets for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: The FDA has fact sheets for recipients and caregivers available in in Arabic, Burmese, Cherokee, Chuukese, Chinese, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Korean, Mam, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Yiddish. Scroll down to the bottom of the webpage for the translated sheets.

    The Asian American Health Initiative, part of Maryland’s Montgomery County of Health and Human Services, has created several resources on mental health for the Asian American community, including photonovels, toolkits, reports, and a video series on COVID-19 and mental health. Resources are available in English as well as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Hindi.

    The Indigenous Alliance Without Borders (Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras) and the Mayan League have compiled COVID-19 resources and information in a variety of indigenous languages. These language resources can be found here.

    The CDC’s Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines is now available in Arabic, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese and English. This factsheet is located at the bottom of the webpage What to Expect at Your Appointment to Get Vaccinated for COVID-19.

    Videos for COVID-19 Response: If you scroll down the webpage, under the “Protect Yourself and Others,” there’s a section called Frequently Asked Questions About the COVID-19 Vaccine Transcript with transcripts in English translated into 16 different key refugee languages.

    EMBARC has “COVID-19 Vaccine” videos in Swahili, Spanish, Mizo Chin, Lingala, Kirundi, Karenni, Karen, French, Burmese and English

    TranslateCovid.org has a searchable library of multilingual COVID-19 resources from the CDC, WHO and others. That’s just one of the many resources available on their site, which also has shareable materials regarding hand washing, social distance, anti-hate messaging and COVID-19 public health messaging and survivor stories.

  • Long COVID and Historically Marginalized Patients: Amplified Risks Require a Different Approach: What is long COVID, and what do clinicians need to know about long COVID when considering the needs of their migrant, immigrant, asylum-seeking, and agricultural worker patients? Amid the rapidly accumulating and changing data, several key findings are relevant for these special populations.

    The CDC has released COVID-19 Community Levels, a new tool to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium, or high and are determined by the use of hospital beds, hospital admissions, and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area. Take precautions to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 based on the COVID-19 Community Level in your area

    The FREE federal COVID-19 test kits website is live now: COVID Home Tests | USPS. You can order four free tests for delivery to your home in literally seconds. It is based on name and address, so feel free to order for your refugee/Afghan families if they have not done so.

    From Pediatric Developments to Employer Mandates: Five New COVID-19 Vaccination Facts to Know

    Omicron, Boosters, and Other Updates to Conversation Guides: Recently updated conversation guides address the Omicron variant, boosters for all adults, vaccines for younger children, and more. Answer questions with confidence by reviewing these popular tools.

    Fact Sheet: COVID-19 and the Flu: NRC-RIM’s newest fact sheet explains why it is necessary to get both a flu vaccine and a COVID-19 vaccine, why COVID-19 tests are important, and why getting the flu can be especially dangerous this year. Available in English with translations on the way.

    New Guide for Religious Leaders: American Muslim Health Professionals published a Vaccine Khutbah Guide in collaboration with North American Imams Federation (NAIF) to help Imams and religious leaders encourage community members to get vaccinated. Read now.

    Missouri has opened a vaccine incentive program (VIP) where you have the chance to win cash prizes. Starting in July, the Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services will partner with the Missouri Lottery to draw 180 winners in 5 randomized drawings who will win either $10,000 cash or $10,000 towards an education savings account. In total, the state will award 900 individuals throughout the incentive program. To enter for a chance to win visit here.

    Multi-faith vaccine resources: Interfaith Partnership and Missouri Foundation for Health have partnered to create resources for religious organizations in an effort to help them encourage vaccination within their communities. Resources include print and digital materials and are available for a variety of religious audiences. While some of the resources provided are specific to St. Louis, there are additional general links and perspectives offered, too.

    Understanding the Delta Variant: Experts are worried about the Delta variant for two main reasons. First, the Delta variant spreads much more easily between people. Second, there is also concern that the Delta variant might cause more severe illness. NRC-RIM’s newest vaccine resource will help you understand and answer others’ questions about the Delta variant of COVID-19.

    Unpausing the J&J Vaccine: The CDC and FDA has recommended resuming the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine (J&J/Janssen) after a temporary pause. If you are getting questions from clients, friends or family, NRC-RIM has resources for you. Learn more.

    “Get a Ride” Campaign: The Department of Health and Senior Services in collaboration with the Missouri Advisory Committee on Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution is excited to announce the launch of a new statewide transportation guide to help address and eliminate barriers to COVID-19 vaccine access. “Get a Ride” can be found at MOStopsCovid.com/ride.

    COVID-19 Index: National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) announced the launch of its COVID-19 Index, a powerful new tool designed to prepare communities for future waves of coronavirus. The COVID-19 Index will enable healthcare organizations and communities to view where coronavirus cases and deaths will surge so they may focus their resources on those areas most directly impacted by the virus.

    Communications Toolkits: The Ad Council and the COVID Collaborative are leading a massive communications effort to educate the American public and build confidence around the COVID-19 vaccines. Toolkits include a Public Health Toolkit, Black Community Toolkit, Hispanic Community Toolkit, Black Faith Toolkit, and Hispanic Faith Community Toolkit.

    The Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services released a COVID-19 vaccine messaging toolkit. To access the toolkit, click here.

    CDC created this communication toolkit to help public health professionals, health departments, community organizations, and healthcare systems and providers reach populations who may need COVID-19 prevention messaging in their native languages. Find it here.

    The CDC launched VaccineFinder, a resource for finding vaccines near you. Interested individuals can enter their zip code and search radius, and the site will show a list of nearby pharmacies and health centers that are administering the vaccine, and whether the location has doses in stock.

    COVID-19 and Refugees, from UNHCR, provides maps, statistics, and facts on how the pandemic has impeded efforts to protect the displaced and affected their access to basic rights.

    Refugee USA Council compiled resources for refugees, community members, and resettlement workers on COVID-19 and relief efforts.

    COVID-19 Resource Guide for Immigrants: Welcoming America compiled resources for immigrants in this Google Doc. The resources are meant to guide organizations that work with immigrants along with immigrant allies and advocates who are looking for ways to stay engaged.

    The Morehouse School of Medicine National COVID-19 Resiliency Network (NCRN), an effort funded by the US Office of Minority Health, has aggregated COVID-19 related resources to help reduce the negative impact of the pandemic on communities. To view these resources, visit their website.

    Answers to your current COVID-19 questions: This New York Times article has been consistently updated since the pandemic began. As new questions have popped up, so have new answers.

    COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering: This interactive map is tracking cases all over the world.

  • The Social Work License Map has compiled a list of 60 digital resources for anyone seeking information about and/or help for a range of mental health issues. This is an especially stressful, pressure-filled time, and their list includes hotlines, blogs and so many other resources to address different needs.

    COVID-19 Resource and Information Guide from the National Alliance on Mental Illness: Whether you’re looking for support regarding work, finances or even losing a loved one due to COVID-19, NAMI has compiled a resource guide to help.

    That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief: A Q&A with David Kessler, the world’s foremost expert on grief, according to Harvard Business Review.

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration‘s guide to coping with social distancing, quarantine, and isolation: Tip Sheet.

    The National Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) guide on coping with stress related to COVID-19: Shareable resources.

    Counselors available in over 100 different languages for anyone experiencing emotional distress during this pandemic: Disaster Distress Helping

  • COVID resources for new Ukrainian arrivals

    • E-Course: Fostering COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in Russian and Ukrainian Speaking Communities View now.

    • Webinar: Psychological First Aid (PFA) to Support Clients Affected by the Crisis in Ukraine: slides, recording, and resources

    Conversation Guide - COVID-19 Infection and Recovery: Many people are getting sick from COVID-19 every day, and some people experience severe illness or die. Testing, quarantining, and isolation are all important steps to take to keep yourself and others safe from COVID-19 if you feel sick. There are treatments available to help you recover from COVID-19, but it is important to start them right away, especially if you are at risk for becoming dangerously ill

    Toolkit: Clinicians’ Corner: With this toolkit, clinicians can learn techniques for offering care with cultural humility, access tools and reference guides for delivering clinical care, and engage with NRC-RIM fact sheets, conversation guides and toolkits for patient education. Learn more.

    Mothers x Mothers Toolkit Equips Organizations to Hold Health Meetups for Immigrant and Refugees Mothers: IDEO.org and Refugee Women’s Network co-designed a health meetup called Mothers x Mothers with a group of refugee and immigrant women to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in their communities. With this toolkit, organizations can plan and implement their own Mothers x Mothers meetup groups. The elements of the toolkit are informed and tested by mothers’ experiences, and create the conditions to have a judgement-free conversation around the vaccine among mothers. Check it out and learn more in tomorrow’s webinar

    A Community Toolkit for Addressing Health Misinformation: Health misinformation is causing harm to individuals and to communities, but talking to one another about its impact can help slow the spread by prompting us to think twice about the information we’re reading and sharing. This toolkit will help you get started.

    Conversation Guide - Breakthrough Infections: Help your friends, family and clients understand what a breakthrough infection is, why they happen and why it is still worth it to get a vaccine with NRC-RIM’s new conversation guide.

    Conversation Guide - Boosters and Third Doses: NRC-RIM’s newest conversation guide explains that boosters are safe and effective, and that fully vaccinated people still have good protection against COVID-19 even without a booster. Read more.

    Conversation Guide - Employer Vaccine Requirements: With increasing numbers of organizations and businesses requiring vaccinations, it is understandable that employees have questions. For workers in refugee, immigrant and migrant communities, language and other barriers can make it more difficult to have these questions answered by their work supervisor or human resources representative. Instead, they may bring these questions to client-facing staff in refugee service agencies and community-based organizations. The guide is designed to assist client-facing staff in answering those questions with information from reliable and trusted sources, while staying within their scope and role.

    Messaging to Reduce Risk in Areas With Lower Vaccination Rates: In areas with lower vaccination rates and among populations with a degree of vaccine hesitancy, it is vitally important to promote a layered approach to risk mitigation.

    Welcome Booklet for Refugees: Information about COVID-19: This welcome booklet is available in several languages and provides important information to help refugees and their families stay healthy during the pandemic after arriving to the United States.

    Developed by a team in Washington, the Discussion Guide for Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines for Immigrants and Refugees (PDF) is a resource for partners serving immigrant/refugee communities to help build COVID-19 vaccine confidence with community members. The resource addresses common concerns, frequently asked questions and provides example responses.

    Discussion Guide for Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccines: Conversations about the COVID-19 vaccines with your community members and clients may take many different forms and may happen in many different settings. In this guide, you will find a proposed flow for those conversations.

    Resources to help organizations answer common vaccine questions: If you’re unsure of how to answer client questions related to the COVID-19 vaccine and want a trusted resource for accurate information, check out NRC-RIM’s resources related to vaccination outreach, education, and support as well as answers to common questions. The National Immigrant Law Center has also published a blog post: Answers to Common Questions about Immigrants’ Access to the COVID-19 Vaccines.

    COVID-19 Vaccine Information Digital Toolkit, from The Refugee Response, is a living document that will be updated as more content is created. In the content library there are links to view/download the multilingual testimonials, translated informational fliers, and animated videos.

    NRC-RIM has also launched three campaigns that support vaccine confidence. These three campaigns include social media messages, handouts, posters and more that advocate for vaccines in different ways. Many of these campaigns have customizable options so you can change the photo, URL, logo and more.

    Combatting COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy: Created by New American Neighbors, these videos explain that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective. New American Neighbors (NAN) provides multilingual and multicultural videos with actionable information to assist refugee and immigrant families along multiple integration pathways. NAN videos are produced in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Dari, French, Karen, Nepali, Pashto, Somali, Spanish, and Tigrinya.

    Overcoming COVID Vaccine Hesitancy in Immigrant Communities: A webinar from Welcoming America was recorded and added to their website where you can also find additional resources provided by the speakers.

    Vaccine Equity: Building trust among communities of color in the COVID-19 era: A virtual panel discussion between health experts regarding building trust around vaccines in communities that may have concerns or experienced health injustices.

    Video Series: Why I got my COVID-19 Vaccine: NRC-RIM released a series of videos that feature healthcare providers explaining why they chose to get vaccinated in English, Spanish, Somali, Amharic and Farsi. You can create your own videos with NRC-RIM’s video booth service.

    COVID-19 Vaccination Videos, created by a doctor serving refugees in Vermont, the VT Department of Health, and the VT Multilingual Taskforce, provide clear and straightforward information that also addresses concerns refugee communities have expressed. Each video includes both the doctor providing the information and the interpreter for the specific language.

    Addressing Legal Concerns Around Immigration-Related Vaccine Hesitancy: Immigrants may have concerns about government authorities’ access to personal information provided at vaccine clinics. Learn how to build partnerships ahead of vaccination clinics and how to design an affirming vaccination event.

    IDs and Insurance - Know Your Rights: This resource answers commonly asked questions about COVID-19 vaccine eligibility and immigration status, health insurance status, and being asked for a valid ID. Download in English or Spanish.

    WhatsApp to Reach and Engage RIM Communities: The popular social messaging tool for many communities, including refugees, immigrants, and migrants and can be a powerful tool to reach and engage communities.

    COVID-19 - Resources for Refugee Resettlement Service Providers: The CDC created a landing page with resources specific to refugee resettlement service providers. It includes guidance for various settings such as home visits, classroom environments and health appointments.

    COVID-19 in Newly Resettled Refugee Populations: The CDC’s targeted guidance and information for newly arrived refugees includes a printable Welcome Booklet, After You Travel guide and other tools and advice for providers.

    Supporting Multilingual Learners (MLLs)/English Language Learners (ELLs) During the COVID-19 Shutdown, from TNTP, offers general guidance on what to consider as educators determine how to best continue students’ language and literacy development.

    Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Refugee Girls’ Education: Part I Barriers to Equal Access and Part II Solutions for Equal Access, from the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI), discusses the barriers refugee girls face to continuing their education in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

    COVID-19 Health Resource Infographic, from the Cultural Orientation Resource Exchange (CORE), provides a snapshot of key messages and resources provided to refugees at each step of the resettlement process.

    Workplace Safety for Essential Workers: A resource round-up from Switchboard with COVID-19 safety information for employees, including fact sheets, infographics, and links to resources in multiple languages. The information provided focuses on meatpacking industries, grocery store/food services, and child care, with additional links to general employee rights and COVID-19 safety sources.

    Helping Refugee Clients Cope During the COVID-19 Crisis: This blog post offers tips on how to help clients cope during the COVID-19 crisis, including suggestions for sharing information in a trauma-informed way and supporting clients’ mental health and wellbeing.

  • Checklist: Safety and Wellness During Ramadan: As communities observe Ramadan, the International Rescue Committee created a checklist to encourage community members to practice safety and wellness when gathering together. Available in English and six other languages. Download now.

    Guidelines for Mosques and Communities: The American Muslim Health Professionals (AMHP) published some guidelines for community members and mosques to help make these events as safe as possible during this month.

    Ramadan 2022: Help Clients Observe the Holy Month with Health and Safety in Mind: Ramadan Mubarak! Muslims observing the Holy Month are eager to spend their nights breaking fast, reciting the Quran, praying nightly in congregation (for “taraweeh” and “qiyam al lail”), and connecting to their spirituality. This blog post from Switchboard and NRC-RIM shares how you can promote better public health to clients, so they can more safely enjoy Ramadan.

    New Resources for Staying Safe During Ramadan: As Ramadan begins in April, there have been some questions about vaccines breaking fast, or not being halal. NRC-RIM and partners have created a series of videos and other resources about Ramadan faith leaders addressing these questions and more from members of Muslim communities.

    Key Messages: Ramadan and COVID-19: Communicate to clients about the importance of staying safe from COVID-19 during Ramadan with these templates. Copy and paste them into messaging apps that are commonly used by RIM communities, such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, SMS (text), or others. Available in Arabic, Dari, English, Pashto, Rohingya, Somali and Tigrinya.

    Ramadan 2022 Calendar: In recognition of the cultural significance of calendars, and importance of using calendars during the month of Ramadan, our partners at IRC created Ramadan calendars that incorporate public health messaging about COVID-19. These templates have blank Sehar and Iftar times for staff and/or clients to fill out in accordance to their specific location and time zone. Available in Arabic, Dari, English, Pashto and Tigrinya.

    Ramadan Social Media Resources: Facts about vaccines being halal, not containing animal products, and not changing DNA are all available in the languages of communities for whom these topics are particularly relevant

  • Switchboard has a resource round-up of multilingual tutorials on how to use Zoom and other online platforms and two blog posts on remote job readiness resources for clients with varying digital abilities.

    HIAS has created several multimedia and written resources including an 11-part video series on Navigating Chromebook Usage, a Virtual Communication Guide that explains how to use WhatsApp and Zoom, and a Digital Literacy Toolkit for Newcomer Families (available in English, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, and Ukrainian).

    CORE has assembled a list of Resources for Digital Inclusion which can be found at the end of their Teaching Remotely page.

  • Public Program Eligibility: Protecting Immigrant Families’ COVID guide, Immigrant Eligibility for Public Programs During COVID-19, (also available in Spanish) provides an overview of some of the federal public programs available to support individuals and families during this time.

    Helping clients navigate economic hardships: Switchboard has compiled resources to assist service providers in helping clients understand their rights and access federal and state benefits, as well as information about other non-governmental resources.

    Unemployment benefits and requirements: Basic eligibility information

    Resources for clients covering Cultural Orientation topics, English lessons, and working in the US: Settle In

    Connect clients to inexpensive Internet access: Lifeline

    Virtual job readiness assistance: Videos and podcasts

    Tips for virtual interviewing: here, here, here, and here.