RISE Resources for Communities
- RISE Trainings
- Communication
- Advancing Equity and Racial Justice
- Mental Health
- Resources for Specific Communities
- Housing Resources
A variety of strategies and resources are needed to reach people in our communities to prevent further spread of COVID-19. We have created a variety of trainings to help communities stay healthy. The RISE training is available in both English and Spanish languages. This is open for Vaccine Ambassadors, Community Organizers, and Community leaders.
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Vaccine basics
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Addressing vaccine hesitancy
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Addressing misinformation and disinformation
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Data for power
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Community organizing
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Narrative change
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Advancing system change in the context of COVID19
Please click here to access these training sessions.
To learn more, please email us at RISE@weintheworld.org.
Communication Tools and Resources
Tools and resources to help you successfully address vaccine hesitancy and build trust and confidence
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Documentary about vaccine confidence created by the family members of the men in the untreated syphilis study
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Tailoring the Message to Decrease Vaccine Hesitancy – A way to simply and accurately discuss the reasons for the rising COVID-19 rates and the delta variant.
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Understanding trust and mistrust – Vaccinate with Confidence framework. Who and what do they lack trust in?
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Is it the vaccines themselves? (e.g. concerns about speed of development, side effects, etc.)
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Their healthcare provider?
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The health department?
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CDC?
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Their employer who is encouraging them to get vaccinated?
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Their local elected officials who are encouraging them to get vaccinated?
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Rapid community assessment of trust
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New guidance for health departments about how to generate demand for vaccines
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CDC Social Media Toolkits – Find social media ready COVID-19 content on a variety of topics to help you successfully communicate with your audiences. Topics include:
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K-12 Schools Operational Strategy
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Stop the Spread
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Mental Health
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COVID-19 Vaccines
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Mask Up America
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COVID-19 Contact Tracing Communications Toolkit for Health Departments
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Social Media Toolkit: Variants
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Advancing Equity and Racial Justice Through Your COVID Response
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Implementation toolkit for planning an equitable vaccine response by Communivax
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Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience with pivotal moves and paths to renewal
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Trendbending opportunities to address inequities in the context of COVID: A toolkit
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Trendbending policies and recommendations for dismantling structural racism – harvested from BIPOC led organizations across the nation
Mental health is a critical part of overall health and well-being and the COVID-19 pandemic has further stressed the mental health of our nation. These resources will help provide information on how to help people, communities and our nation heal.
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El Sol Time to Heal toolkit about recovering after trauma
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A new report on mental health in the context of the pandemic from Mental Health America including mental health of LGBTQ youth, racial/ethnic minorities
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Healing the Nation: Recommendations for Addressing Mental Health by Addressing Access to Care, Community Conditions and Changing Systems
A People’s Guide to Healing the Nation which includes recommendations for decriminalization and decarceration of people with mental health conditions
Resources for Specific Communities
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Resources for specific communities:
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Native Hawai’ian, Asian and Pacific Islander toolkit
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Resources for People with Disabilities
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Resources for Migrant Workers and People with Limited English Proficiency
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Multilingual resources from the CDC
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Migrant Clinicians Network resource center
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Multilingual Resources from the Food and Drug Administration
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Housing Policy Action Guide (CCI)
This guide equips community development practitioners with strategies for creating more just and equitable public policies that help advance your work. We look closely at how to select the appropriate policy tools, bring decision makers on board, and communicate effectively with the broader community to achieve your goals.
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Housing and Health for All: A Research and Communications Toolkit for COVID-19 and Beyond (HiP)Developed with the expertise of housing organizers, this toolkit distills public health research into talking points and data access guidance that housing and health advocates can easily plug into their campaigns or communications.
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Housing Solutions for Health Equity initiative (HSHE), a new initiative at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. HSHE understands that inequities in access to decent, safe, affordable, and healthy housing persist in Michigan and across the United States. HSHE’s research and actions confront this issue head-on by locating strategies to improve housing opportunities with a resulting improvement in health equity.
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Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks (Popay, et al. 2021)
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Power, control, communities and health inequalities. Part II: measuring shifts in power (Popay, et al. 2022)