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National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) COVID-19 resources for Afghan new arrivals and Back to School Updated 8/24/21

COVID-19 resources for Afghan new arrivals

  • Refugee resettlement agencies, local governments and community organizations are providing housing, clothing, healthcare, transportation and other resources that cover the basic needs of the Afghan new arrivals who have been displaced from their home country.
  • The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) can only provide resources related to COVID-19, and acknowledge that the pandemic response may not be a priority as Afghan families focus on securing the immediate physical safety and emotional well-being of their loved ones.
  • Afghan new arrivals who are ready to talk about COVID-19 vaccines and other pandemic response measures can use NRC-RIM’s resources in Dari, Pashto and English, available here for easy download. 

NRC-RIM prepares for back to school

  • NRC-RIM published new resources for schools and those who partner with them. Last week’s blog on back to school resources was so popular that NRC-RIM created a new toolkit complete with Promising Practices from around the country, checklists and guides, and other resources that support vaccination, contact tracing, and testing efforts in K-12 public schools. 
  • The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) has resources, fact sheets, and best practices to support health departments and community organizations interested in partnering with schools to promote COVID-19 vaccines among teachers, staff, families, and eligible students. 
  • Schools and their partners that serve RIM communities can promote vaccines with the Get the Facts and Get Vaccinated campaigns, use our conversation guides to talk to students and families, and even hold vaccine clinics at schools. Learn more on the NRC-RIM website.
  • NRC-RIM is committed to providing high-quality translations of health communications. They just added new translations of Get the Facts materials in Dinka, Karenni and Telugu, and their fact sheets on vaccines for children and youth and the Delta variant will soon be available in 40 languages.

Updates from CDC and Anew American Neighbors Updated 7/26/21

Updates from our CDC colleagues—as usual, feel free to share with your local networks:

In addition, the New American Neighbors project shares a real-world use of embedding its videos:

  • Aurora is the most diverse city in CO state, where about 60% of refugees are resettled. Aurora Public Schools, as part of its campaign to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates for students and their families, has embedded the New American Neighbors videos on the vaccination campaign page of their website. This embedding allows for Aurora Public Schools to customize its own vaccination outreach message, and then use the videos to illustrate and support that message, without having the viewer leave the Aurora Public Schools website. New American Neighbors provided the embed code, and it took the Aurora Public Schools team about 10 minutes to build out this page with the videos.

Updates from CDC and NRC-RIM Updated 7/13/21

National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) offers technical assistance to local governments, new campaign assets, and a new toolkit Updated 7/6/21

  • NRC-RIM has outlined several opportunities for state and local governments to request technical assistance from its experts and partner organizations. Whether it is strengthening relationships with RIM communities in your area or increasing access to testing and vaccines, NRC-RIM has the resources to meet your needs. Learn more on their website.
  • NRC-RIM also created new materials for its three vaccine campaigns:
    • The Get the Facts campaign has been updated with a new fact sheet on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which explains the rare blood clot side effect that was reported in April. The fact sheet emphasizes that people are much more likely to get seriously ill or die from COVID-19 than get a blood clot, and that the one-dose vaccine is both effective and convenient. 
    • The Get Vaccinated campaign has been updated to include Facebook profile frames and social media profile pictures that coordinate with other campaign materials.
    • The Vaccination Is campaign has been updated to include materials that support the Ukrainian community, in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.
  • NRC-RIM launched a new toolkit outlining how to effectively partner with Community Health Workers. For more strategies on partnering with CHWs, watch the webinar they hosted in partnership with CHW Solutions (passcode: so36Y^0*).

 

Updates from NRC-RIM Updated 6/21/21

National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) (nrcrim.org) acknowledges the important role of refugee, immigrant and migrant communities in COVID-19 response

  • NRC-RIM recognized World Refugee Day on June 20 with the release of a video, created in partnership with the International Rescue Committee, that celebrates the many contributions immigrants and refugees have made to the nation’s COVID-19 response.
  • IDEO.org, a nonprofit partner of NRC-RIM, also acknowledges the important role that RIM community leaders have played in the creation of effective COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in their new blog. NRC-RIM and IDEO.org worked alongside community leaders in the creation and dissemination of their messaging campaigns for Vaccination Is.
  • This past week, NRC-RIM and IDEO.org hosted their first hands-on workshop where people from around the country could get help from graphic designers and communications experts in creating their own COVID-19 vaccine campaigns in partnership with their local communities.  This week is the last chance to attend their webinar on the same topic.
  • Community leaders are not the only ones who have been essential to the COVID-19 response; youth and young adults are making a difference, too. One group of young former refugees in Dekalb County, GA, has provided their communities with more than 15,000 COVID-19 tests and 4,000 vaccines with interpretation in more than 20 languages.
  • For more information, visit their website, sign up for their newsletter, and follow them on Twitter or Facebook.

Updates from NRC-RIM Updated 6/14/21

  • NRC-RIM offers hands-on design workshop, new campaign options
    • The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) offers new campaign photo options that celebrate people of different skin tones and body shapes, and with different identifying markers like freckles, tattoos and scars. Select a customizable template from Get Vaccinated or Get the Facts to get started.
    • NRC-RIM also launched video PSAs that summarize the information in their fact sheet on what to do after you’re vaccinated. These videos, produced in 10 languages, are also linked via QR code on their respective flyers - choose a customizable template to download your own.
    • Centering the perspective of RIM communities continues to be an important strategy for any public health response. Read their guest blog on Switchboard to learn more, and consider signing up for their upcoming hands-on design workshop or informational webinar for idea.

Special note from ORR: We’ll also be hosting a special guest presentation from NRC-RIM at the next Refugee Team meeting on June 23!

Updates from NRC-RIM Updated 6/11/21

NRC-RIM offers hands-on design workshop, new campaign options

  • The National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants and Migrants (NRC-RIM) offers new campaign photo options that celebrate people of different skin tones and body shapes, and with different identifying markers like freckles, tattoos and scars. Select a customizable template from Get Vaccinated or Get the Facts to get started.

  • NRC-RIM also launched video PSAs that summarize the information in their fact sheet on what to do after you’re vaccinated. These videos, produced in 10 languages, are also linked via QR code on their respective flyers - choose a customizable template to download your own.

  • Centering the perspective of RIM communities continues to be an important strategy for any public health response. Read their guest blog on Switchboard to learn more, and consider signing up for their upcoming hands-on design workshop or informational webinar for ideas.

 

NPR Article: Confused by CDCs Latest Mask Guidance? Here's What We Learned Updated 6/8/21

Relevant points:

 CDC doesn't run or oversee and can't overrule your local or state health department. You'll still need to check the local rules where you live to see how they've changed (if they have) in response to this week's shift in the CDC's guidance.

  • Whether you need to wear a mask indoors in public venues will depend on local mandates and guidelines, as well as businesses, which make their own operating decisions.
  • Most legal experts agree employers can require vaccination of their employees returning to the workplace.
  • It is legal for employers to ask to verify vaccination by checking, for example, a worker's vaccination card — so long as they are not requesting other medical information that may violate the employee's privacy.
  • Whether employers will continue to require masking in their workplaces may depend on a range of factors like local public health regulations, whether that employer has a vaccine mandate (and therefore only vaccinated employees are on site) or whether they have enough space in the facility to distance those who are unvaccinated.
  • Some settings should still require masks even for fully vaccinated people, including in correctional facilities and homeless shelters, and for staff, patients and visitors in health care settings.

FDA: Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) factsheets for the Pfizer and Modern COVID-19 Vaccine. Please note that the languages bolded are *new* updates as of 2/1/21:

    Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine | FDA

    • Translated factsheets for recipients and caregivers.
    • When you enter the site, make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the webpage for hyperlinks to the translated languages below.
    • Available in Arabic, Burmese, Cherokee, Chuukese, Chinese, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, lu Mien, Khmer, Korean, Mam, Marshallese, Navajo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Yiddish.

    Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine | FDA

    • Translated factsheets for recipients and caregivers.
    • When you enter the site, make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the webpage for hyperlinks to the translated languages below.
    • Available in Arabic, Burmese, Cherokee, Chuukese, Chinese, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, lu Mien, Khmer, Korean, Mam, Marshallese, Navajo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Yiddish.

    Kindly note that these resources are also available in the following location: Translated Materials Library | National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) (umn.edu)

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    Updates to the National Resource Center for Refugees, Immigrants, and Migrants (NRC-RIM) website (Bolded items updated 4/27/21):

    The NRC-RIM announced upcoming webinars aimed at equipping local health departments and community organizations to create a customized vaccine campaign that resonates with their local communities. The first webinar is Thursday, April 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern.

    NRC-RIM worked with IDEO.org, a nonprofit design studio, to build vaccination campaigns in genuine partnership with specific RIM communities. This meant working alongside community leaders in the creation and dissemination of their messaging campaigns.  Learn how to involve your community in your campaign and gain the skills to use their templates and tools that support your work. Learn more and register today.

    In addition:

    • NRC-RIM needs your feedback as they move forward with creating more resources to enhance your work. Take the survey today.
    • The Get the Facts and Get Vaccinated campaigns have now been published in 20 different languages with more on the way.

    Promising Practices and Training Opportunities

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