RISE Resources for Communities

 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.

Training topics include :

• Vaccine basics

• Addressing vaccine hesitancy

• Addressing misinformation and disinformation

• Data for power

• Community organizing

• Narrative change

• Advancing system change in the context of COVID19

Please click here to access these training sessions.

To learn more, please email us at [email protected]

Tools and resources to help you successfully address vaccine hesitancy and build trust and confidence

• Documentary about vaccine confidence created by the family members of the men in the untreated syphilis study

• 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.

• Understanding trust and mistrust – Vaccinate with Confidence framework.  Who and what do they lack trust in?  

• • • Is it the vaccines themselves?  (e.g. concerns about speed of development, side effects, etc.)

    • Their healthcare provider? 

    • The health department?

    • CDC? 

    • Their employer who is encouraging them to get vaccinated?

    • Their local elected officials who are encouraging them to get vaccinated?

• Rapid community assessment of trust

• New guidance for health departments about how to generate demand for vaccines 

• 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:

• • • K-12 Schools Operational Strategy

    • Stop the Spread

    • Mental Health

    • COVID-19 Vaccines

    • Mask Up America

    • ​​​​COVID-19 Contact Tracing Communications Toolkit for Health Departments

    • Social Media Toolkit: Variants

• Implementation toolkit for planning an equitable vaccine response by Communivax

• Springboard for Equitable Recovery and Resilience with pivotal moves and paths to renewal 

• Trendbending opportunities to address inequities in the context of COVID: A toolkit

• 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.

• El Sol Time to Heal toolkit about recovering after trauma

• 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

• 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:

• Native Hawai’ian, Asian and Pacific Islander toolkit 

• Resources for People with Disabilities

• Resources for Migrant Workers and People with Limited English Proficiency

  • Multilingual resources from the CDC

  • Migrant Clinicians Network resource center

Multilingual Resources from the Food and Drug Administration