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Arts in the Park Lift Community Spirits
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The University of Houston organized an expansive arts series in Houston’s Discovery Green park throughout the summer of 2022 to encourage constructive public health conversations through a variety of inspiring performances. The “Come Together Houston: A Community Arts and Health Partnership” featured four months of music, dance and poetry as well as health education, including information about COVID-19 vaccines. Notable performances included one by muralist GONZO247 who asked for words...
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From Paper and Clay: Boston Teens Craft the Science of Vaccines
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One of YMCA of Greater Boston‘s successful youth leadership programs trains teenagers to be influential community messengers about health and well-being, such as the importance of vaccinations. In the spring of 2023, as part of their training, 8 youth members learned how the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine works by building physical models of the molecule out of materials like shredded paper and modeling clay. Later, the teenagers were able to share their newfound knowledge directly with community members...
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Tackling Health Disparities with Teamwork
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Latino community-based organization PASOs has successfully teamed up with like-minded groups to provide greater health access to Latino communities in South Carolina. The program has a longstanding partnership with the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health and operates out of its university campus headquarters in Columbia. Starting in the fall of 2022, as part of its flu and COVID-19 vaccine outreach in low-income Hispanic communities, PASOs began collaborating with PRISM...
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Partnerships Fill Gaps in Community Health
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As a successful funding organization committed to improving health access for the uninsured and underinsured, Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (IAFCC) helps foster strategic partnerships to better serve its community. In the spring of 2023, IAFCC spearheaded the collaboration between two Chicago-based clinics CommunityHealth and Mobile Care Chicago to provide COVID-19 and flu vaccines to both adults and children. Mobile Care is a mobile clinic that works mostly with Chicago...
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“Alaska ‘Bout It” Gives Teens a Voice
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As part of Anchorage-based Spirit of Youth’s programming for young adults, Alaska Teen Media Institute (ATMI) helped journalists-in-training to produce a new radio program around the topic of COVID-19. Titled “Alaska ‘Bout It,” the show aired twice a month in 2021-2022 on University of Alaska Anchorage’s radio station 88.1 FM, allowing youth producers from ATMI to reach a new audience with the latest COVID-19 vaccine information. For each show, producers interviewed community members, including...
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Artwork Sparks Conversation, Not Confrontation
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To engage its audience and help overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in 2022, Virginia-based Tidewater Arts Outreach (TAO) sponsored an arts competition and exhibit called “Knowledge is an Art Form.”One of the participating artists was both immunocompromised and vaccine hesitant, and her piece, titled “Conversational, Not Confrontational” explored both sides of her personal situation. When TAO installed the first exhibition in August 2022, they discovered that the piece resonated strongly with...
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Giving It Their Best Shot in New York
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To help educate and empower kids in New York City around COVID-19 vaccination, arts organization Sing for Hope wrote and produced “Don’t Throw Away Your Shot,” an original musical that addresses the topic of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and confidence. Written for a young audience under the age of 13, the musical takes place in a school cafeteria where two students, the school janitor, and an adult lunch worker share their personal vaccine-related stories. In 2022, Sing for Hope performed the...
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COVID Film Showcases the Comfort in Community
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To highlight the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African-American communities in the Southeast, Atlanta-based Out of Hand Theater produced a narrative film in 2022 that helped bring culturally relevant artistic engagements, public health messaging and public health leaders to vaccination events in Georgia. The film, titled “Comfort,” features a family coping with loss during the pandemic and was released during the summer of 2022. One screening took place as part of a community health fair...
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Finding Their Voices, One Photograph at a Time
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To provide a creative outlet for healing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) worked with Latino communities in three rural Northern California counties and encouraged them to document their own lives during the pandemic with photos. In partnership with PhotoVoice in June 2022, MCN taught participants basic photography skills and hosted companion discussion groups to provide a safe place for open conversations. In one of their adult groups, participants often discussed...
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Foster Kid Creators Shine
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Kids in the Spotlight, Inc. (KITS) is a specialized Southern-California arts education program focused on empowering youth in foster care by teaching them how to tell their stories through film. In 2022, KITS’s Script-to-Screen program funded the production of public service announcements (PSAs) about the pandemic, created, directed, and produced by youth creators. As part of the production process, participants engaged in listening sessions around COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy. As a result...
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Chalk for Change: Music School Turns Art into Vaccination Success
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When the Community Music School of Springfield (CMSS) sensed its community was growing tired of routine vaccination information campaigns, they decided to do something new. The non-profit arts school in Western Massachusetts tried a combination it knew best: arts and community building. In July 2022, CMSS hosted “Chalk for Change,” a community festival that featured dozens of artists creating chalk drawings, different genres of music, dance, and kids’ activities alongside health services...
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Superbloom: Community Bonds Flourish with Local Theatre Project
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As part of its efforts to support rural communities in the Cuyama Valley of California, Blue Sky Sustainable Living Center launched “Superbloom,” a community theatre production about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the importance of neighborly connections in divisive times. Starting in January 2022, 35 Cuyama residents of all ages participated in the project as paid co-creators through workshops in script writing, set building and general story-telling. The months-long project culminated with...
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Art Gallery Sparks Community Engagement in Florida
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The Yellow House art gallery in Jacksonville, Florida is a unique civic space committed to connecting art with community building through partnerships and outreach. For one community member, the Yellow House gallery was also his lifeline. In 2022, he started making regular visits to the gallery’s Community Cart which offers free fresh produce, books, art supplies, messages of encouragement, hygiene products, plants and other items. In August 2022, the man stopped by the Yellow House on the same...
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Mississippi Sisterhood Protects Moms and Newborns
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Sisters in Birth is a Jackson-based pregnancy and birth clinic committed to keeping moms and babies alive and healthy in Mississippi, a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the U.S. To help reduce sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and COVID-19 infections in moms and their babies, Sisters in Birth launched a new partnership in the spring of 2023 with the Mississippi Department of Child Protection and UnitedHealthcare. Thanks to the collaboration, Sisters in Birth organized...
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Building Trust, Boosting Vaccination Rates in Minneapolis
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Human services organization Pillsbury United Communities prides itself on successfully building community trust and relationships to support medically underserved populations in the Minneapolis metropolitan region. In 2022, thanks to a robust Community Health Worker program and standout individuals sharing factual information about COVID-19 and flu vaccines, immunization rates rose in three metro communities. One senior community member from the Brian Coyle Center in Cedar-Riverside shared that...
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Haven’t Ya Herd? New Orleans Drag Queen Keeps it Real
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To help promote the importance of COVID-19 vaccines, New Orleans-based addiction treatment provider Odyssey House Louisiana enlisted the help of “Debbie with a D,” a local drag queen celebrity and vocal supporter of public health. “Debbie with a D,” who holds a master’s degree in public health, first gained notoriety as a trusted health advocate when she helped provide more than 10,000 HIV self-testing kits to the New Orleans’ LGBTQ+ community in the months leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Where Good Health is Always In Season
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In the agricultural region of western Missouri, the seasonal fruit harvests create opportunities to deliver quality healthcare to rural communities. During the peach and apple picking months in the summer and fall, Lexington-based HCC Network partners with Migrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund (MFAF) in Kansas City to provide vaccination education and access to the seasonal farm worker community. From August to October 2023, MFAF organized regular vaccine outreach at one orchard, where HCC Network...
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Community Diplomats Make a Difference
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In supporting underserved Hispanic communities in Southern California, Latino Health Access (LHA) has used its highly successful Vaccine Ambassador Program to help inform and empower community members. Through this program, LHA trains participants as Promotores de Salud (Health Promoters) who engage with their communities to share accurate information about COVID-19 and flu vaccines. From December 2022 to January 2024, LHA leveraged its community partnerships to train 6 different groups...
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Digital “Talking Circles” Connect Indigenous Elders
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To better serve its community of indigenous elders, the International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA²) developed impactful culturally tailored health outreach programs around vaccine education. Historically, indigenous community engagement has been rooted in the tradition of talking circles, safe discussion spaces where every participant has a chance to contribute. IA² drew on this traditional concept and adapted it for the digital realm, inviting individuals from its Facebook community...
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A Shot of Confidence
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As part of its goal to increase access to vaccinations for families throughout the state of Rhode Island, Family Service of Rhode Island (FSRI) hosted a successful vaccination event at Johnson and Wales University (JWU) in Providence on February 24, 2023. Thanks to FSRI’s promotional efforts on campus, community turnout was strong. JWU students, faculty and staff attending the event could receive flu, COVID-19 and/or T-dap vaccines. One student shared that she had never received a flu shot...
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Multi-State Health Training Program Promotes Vaccines
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Community Ministry of Prince George's County (CMPGC) is a Maryland-based interfaith organization that is committed to helping reduce health and educational disparities in underserved communities. To better support its own local community just outside Washington D.C., CMPGC organized a multi-state Health Advisor training program in North Carolina, bringing together influential leaders from Prince George’s County, MD and from 20 other partner community organizations. As a result of this training...
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Without the Shot, Hot You’re Not
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As part of its health outreach to support members of the LGBTQ+ community over the age of 45, Gay Elders of Detroit (dba MiGen) works to provide greater access to COVID-19 and flu vaccines. In early 2023, MiGen staff recognized that some community members were hesitant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine booster. In response, the organization created a tongue-in-cheek promotional campaign that teased summer with the tagline “The hottest bodies on the beach are vaccinated.” One of the faces of the...
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Meet You At the Health Fair!
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As part of its efforts to diminish significant health disparities in migrant and seasonal farm worker communities, Illinois Migrant Council (IMC) participated in four different health fairs during the month of March 2023. The well-attended events took place in agricultural communities throughout the state and offered free health services, including a variety of health screenings, COVID-19 and flu shots, as well as educational material around vaccinations. Community members attending the health...
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Getting the Word Out with Stories
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As part of an on-going effort to promote public health throughout the state, Iowa Public Health Association (IPHA) uses storytelling to teach its community about important health topics and increase access to care. In the winter and spring of 2023, IPHA provided storytelling training workshops to its partner community-based organizations to enhance their promotional campaigns about COVID-19 and flu vaccines on social media and other platforms. To further their effort, IPHA also enlisted the help...
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Literacy Group Boosts Community Health
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As a leading adult education organization in the state of Connecticut, Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford (LVGH) is committed to raising literacy rates in its community through instruction. After becoming concerned about lack of vaccine access in 2022 -2023, the group expanded its scope to provide its community with a series of health education classes, which encouraged individuals to make informed decisions about their health and well-being. In conjunction with the classes, LVGH hosted...
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In Idaho, Supporting Peruvian Families in Need
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When health advocacy organization Idaho Immunization Coalition (IIC) got word of a housing crisis in rural Blaine County, where 600 families from Peru had moved to in the fall of 2022, the group quickly mobilized staff and partner organizations to help provide food, health services and other resources to the new arrivals in need. Taking the lead, IIC partnered with Idaho State University College of Pharmacy, The Hunger Coalition, and St. Luke's Medical Center to put on two health fairs, one in...
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A Health Forum to Build Stronger Communities In North Carolina
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More than 80 residents of the rural Roanoke Valley region in North Carolina gathered for a day-long Community Health Forum on March 4, 2023, to participate in thought-provoking group conversations around building a healthier community. Titled “Our Health Matters,” the forum was sponsored by the Gregory B. Davis Foundation (GBDF), a non-profit organization incorporated in Maryland and chartered in North Carolina. The event was run in partnership with the Roanoke Valley Breast Cancer Coalition and...
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Tik Tok for Health
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When GraceMed Health Clinic in Wichita, Kansas launched a Tik Tok video campaign to help dispel false information about COVID-19 and flu vaccines, the faith-based health organization did not expect much success. “I would joke that we had three middle-aged men trying to figure out a young person’s game,” explained GraceMed Director of Communications, Jason Jennings. But thanks to a playful style that delivered factual information intercut with humorous clips from YouTube and Giphy, the videos...
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Health Promoters Boost Vaccine Confidence in Minnesota
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In keeping with its mission to support Latin American families in Minnesota, Communities Organizing Latino Power and Action(COPAL) put in place a volunteer-driven Promotoras d Salud (Health Promoters) program, in part to share accurate information about COVID-19 and increase vaccine confidence among the Latino community. Mara Lopez, a well-trusted community leader in the rural town of Madelia, was one of the first to join the program. Since training as a Health Promoter, Lopez has used her...
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A Happy “HoliGAY” Supports Community Health
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The first Happy HoliGAYS Health Fair in Greeley, Colorado on December 9, 2023 kicked off a successful joint venture between LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Out Boulder County (OBC) and the Weld County Department of Public Health & Environment. Weld County is a mostly rural area, and this inaugural health event was part of OBC’s efforts to expand its vaccine outreach outside of the state’s urban centers. Those attending the health fair at Greeley’s Unitarian Universalist Church could receive COVID...
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Podcasting for Public Health
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For the Nepali community living in the Pacific Northwest, accessing accurate and trustworthy health information about COVID-19 has been a constant challenge, especially for those with limited English proficiency. To combat this problem, Nepal Seattle Society enlisted young English-speaking Nepali volunteers to help connect older community members to reliable COVID-19 resources. Part of this youth-led effort included the launch of a Nepali-language podcast in November 2021 called Let’s Talk #KURA...
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Mobilizing for Votes and Vaccines in Cleveland
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In advance of local, state and national elections in the fall of 2022, Asian Services in Action (ASIA) partnered with OCA Greater Cleveland to combine voter registration with a vaccination drive in Cleveland, Ohio’s AsiaTown . The event – Verify Your Vote & Get Vaccinated – was held on National Voter Registration Day in September 2022. Community members could come to ASIA’s International Community Health Center to verify their voter registrations, and get their flu and COVID-19 shots. AsiaTown...
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Geo-Targeted Ad Campaign Helps the Unhoused in Central Michigan
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Battle Creek Community Foundation (BCCF) has successfully used cell phone technology in their health outreach to connect with the unsheltered population in Central Michigan. To help encourage COVID-19 vaccinations among this historically hard-to-reach community, BCCF launched a geo-targeted public health advertising campaign. The campaign selected specific locations where large numbers of unsheltered individuals connect to Wi-Fi on their cellphones. Once connected and within a 5-mile range, they...
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Race Concordance Crushes Misinformation
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Chicago, Illinois-based Leave No Veteran Behind (LNVB) has a strong ally on the frontlines of COVID-19 in medical doctor and community leader Colonel Dr. Damon T. Arnold. Many veterans served by LNVB in Chicago feared getting vaccinated due to historical mistreatment of African Americans in health settings. Col. Dr. Arnold stepped up to help put their minds at ease. A member of LNVB’s board of advisors, former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health and the former Illinois National...
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The Pulse of the Community
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Health advocacy and education is integral to the Congolese Integration Network (CIN)’s mission to welcome Congolese immigrants and refugees into their new communities in Seattle, Washington. As part of its health outreach programming, CIN has turned to church and other community leaders to share accurate and updated information about COVID vaccines. Hearing from these trusted sources has had an immediate impact, drawing more community members to attend CIN’s numerous health fairs that have...
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A Fair Chance for Caribbean Community Health
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For nearly three decades, Orlando-based Center for Multicultural Wellness and Prevention (CMWP) has improved thousands of lives in Central Florida by providing education and prevention services to uninsured and under-served African-Americans, Hispanics, and people of Caribbean descent. As part of its mission, CMWP hosted a Caribbean Health Fair in Orlando on September 24, 2022. The theme was “Make Mental Wellness a Lifestyle.” With 72 different booths, the well-attended community event offered a...
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Teens Push for Community Health
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Sixteen public high school students in Cincinnati, Ohio, rose to the challenge of countering COVID-19 misinformation and encouraging vaccination during the pandemic. As leaders of a youth health program, these students drew from their experiences as children of recent immigrants from Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America to create materials in their native languages as well as in English, including videos, flyers, posters, and school displays to promote vaccinations in their school...
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House Calls for A Healthier Community
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To better serve its refugee community, New Arrivals Institute (NAI) in Greensboro, NC has successfully implemented an at-home visit program that provides health services, including vaccination education. NAI’s Refugee Health Promotion team developed this program to benefit those in the community — namely women at home with young children — who aren’t able to come to the NAI facilities for regular health outreach events. During these scheduled home visits, NAI team members can provide one-on-one...
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Better Health Supports Academic Achievement
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The California Association of African American Superintendents and Administrators (CAAASA) brings together educational policy leaders to help boost the academic performance of African-American students throughout the state. As part of its sweeping mission, CAAASA partners with school districts in target areas to implement “Community Health and Wellness Events” that provide wrap-around health outreach services like COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, health screenings as well as free groceries and...
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Barbershops & Beauty Salons Do Their Part for Public Health
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More than a Shop (MTAS) is a growing initiative of Luvs Art Project that partners with a network of barbershops, beauty salons and boxing gyms across Baltimore City, MD. Each of the participating businesses serves as a trusted community information hub to inform patrons and community members about public health education, including flu and COVID vaccine information and resources. In 2022, this collective of influential messengers also sponsored numerous community pop up events such as festivals...
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A Direct Line to the Community
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To maximize its impact in empowering the immigrant community in the Washington DC metropolitan area, Edu-Futuro is using broadcast TV to reach a widespread audience. The organization produces a public service video series called Línea Directa (Direct Line) that airs on the region’s local Telemundo channel as well as on YouTube and addresses topics of interest to the Latino immigrant community. On one series of episodes broadcast in April 2022, three local Latina elected officials came on the...
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Come for Your Shot, Stay for the Party
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El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center in San Bernadino, California proved that throwing a community party around a vaccine outreach event is an effective way to promote and provide health services. In late January 2023, El Sol hosted a successful flu and COVID-19 vaccine fair that also featured food, face painting, and music to create an approachable ambiance for its community of Spanish speakers with limited English proficiency. Bilingual staff from El Sol were on hand to help attendees sign...
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A Quicker Connection to Healthcare
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In response to a community need for more trusted healthcare resources, the Gwinnett Coalition in Lawrenceville, GA created a mobile app that connects the uninsured and underinsured to quality medical services, including adult, pediatric, and mental health care, as well as vaccine resources. Launched in January 2023, the GwinnettHealthFinder is a web-based, mobile friendly tool that allows users to quickly locate health providers by city, zip code or service category. Participating providers are...
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Gaining Community Trust in New York City
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To address the needs of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean senior immigrants in New York City, India Home’s dedicated and multi-lingual staff has successfully partnered with leaders of local religious institutions such as churches, temples and mosques to sponsor numerous COVID vaccine events, including a mobile health unit. By working with trusted community leaders and breaking down language barriers, India Home’s outreach team has reached over 200,000 community members in promoting the importance...
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KAFLA-TV Connects the Community
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Overcoming language barriers is the key to connecting with immigrant communities. That’s what the Korean American Federation of Los Angeles (KAFLA) tapped into at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the organization created its own Korean language KAFLA TV channel on YouTube to share COVID-related information and resources that everyone in its community could understand. Daily programs included anything from where to get tested and vaccinated for COVID, to information about unemployment...
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Stocking a Community Pantry
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Access Health in Muskegon, MI knows that community health thrives when neighbors can help their own. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Access Health launched a Neighborhood Mini Pantry in the spring of 2022 to provide both food and health resources to the Muskegon metropolitan community. The pantry is open 24/7, with access to food, hygiene and personal care products, COVID test kits and masks, as well as accurate medical information about flu and COVID vaccinations, and where to obtain them...
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Door to Door with Mr. R
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Mr. R is one of Lantern Community Services’ most hard-working Vaccine Ambassadors in New York City, and a shining example of how the best community change comes from within. As a resident of one of Lantern’s supportive housing buildings, Mr. R has enthusiastically participated in the organization’s tenant peer outreach program called “On Point” since it launched in 2021 to promote the importance of COVID and flu vaccines in its resident communities. Mr. R has demonstrated a unique skill and...
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Making Hugs Safe Again
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The Latino Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders Alliance (LAMDA) based in Cicero, Illinois knows that a strong community includes supportive families. The successful organization educates Latino communities on how to take care of aging relatives, offering training and support programs for Latino caregivers. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the fall of 2021, LAMDA quickly jumped in to provide free COVID-19 vaccines to those in the community who work with elderly or immuno-compromised...
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Caring Support for New Arrivals
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Mariana Gonzales is a community health worker (CHW) and public health student working with the Southeast Arizona Health Education Center’s (SEAHEC) Vacunas para Todos (“Vaccines for all”) project. Gonzales spends several afternoons each week at the Casa Alitas shelter in Tucson, Arizona, to provide COVID-19 education and additional support to newly arrived migrant families, connecting them with services and care. In late 2021, Gonzales met a mother of three recently arrived from Peru who was...
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Coming Together As One
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The New Age Services Corporation (NASC) achieved an increase in COVID-19 vaccinations in their Chicago area communities by leveraging partnerships near and far. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) chapter nearly 700 miles away in Atlanta helped connect organizations for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Chicago’s West Side in March of 2022. Even City of East Point, Georgia Councilmember, Karen Rene got involved and introduced NASC to the NAACP chapter on the...
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Students Power Health Outreach in Connecticut
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Student community health workers (CHWs) powered the work of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) last summer by partnering with local organizations to host a health event at their local park in New Britain, Connecticut. The YWCA Youth Community Health Workers provided a mobile vaccination station, complete with services to help with housing insecurity, domestic violence, and drug abuse. Fourteen individuals were vaccinated during the event, and 250 back-to-school supply kits and gift...
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Health on Wheels
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At Wayne Metropolitan Community Action Agency (WMCAA) headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, the work revolves around connecting community members to resources that support their physical, mental, and financial health. For example, WMCAA holds a recurring event at the Inkster Housing Commission at which their staff provides accurate information about COVID-19 to residents. Also, at the local Saunders Memorial A.M.E. Church, the WMCAA mobile health unit distributed informational fliers to help...
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Barn Quilts Keep South Dakota Healthy
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Barn quilts are bright, familiar sights in rural parts of the United States, and the Vermillion Cultural Association (VCA) in Vermillion, South Dakota recently took barn quilt-making to new heights in a traveling health education effort. Barn Quilt Project: South Dakota Strong in collaboration with Creative Care LLC drew on the cultural history of quilt-making among both indigenous and European settler communities. “The Barn Quilt Project connected familiar quilt traditions with stories of...
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Vaccinated Dinosaurs?
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If there’s one way to get a child’s attention, it’s probably superheroes...and a dinosaur! At least that was the approach United Way of Coastal Fairfield County, Connecticut, took to make vaccine clinics more inviting for children. Adult staff dressed in superhero costumes, and the chief executive officer greeted children in an inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex costume to help spread the word about vaccinations. During the Omicron surge, one clinic provided over 200 vaccinations.
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Helping Thousands in Washington, DC
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By integrating essential social services with their COVID-19 outreach, the Leadership Council for Healthy Communities (LCHC) Vaccine Equity and Inclusion Initiative Team saw abundant success in their Washington, DC community. Through partnerships with the Virtual Health Ministry and Choose Health Life program, residents were referred to vaccination and testing opportunities along with mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, and other services. The team also identified and trained...
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Vaccines, Testing and Gifts, Oh My!
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From a community survey, the Eastside Community Network (ECN) learned that many people felt their community lacked quality providers. So ECN sprang into action, and hosted its first health fair in Detroit in November 2021, aiming to connect community members with healthcare insurance companies that offer access to credentialed providers in the community.
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Juneteenth Vaccinations
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The Corner Health Center offers health care and supportive services for young people transitioning to adulthood in Ypsilanti, Michigan. During a Juneteenth celebration, the Center hosted a talk by a well-known pediatrician who spoke about health in communities of color, persuading skeptical friends, families, and young people to be vaccinated. One mother attending the talk appreciated the presentation, but shared with staff that she felt defeated in trying to convince her hesitant family to be...
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Infertility and Pregnancy Vaccine Misinformation
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At the Muslim American Foundation Event “Awoowe, COVID, and I,” the Somali Health Board in King County, WA surveyed several families about their understanding of COVID-19 and the vaccines. While many raised concerns and misconceptions, one parent’s story stood out in particular. They shared how a friend of a friend was vaccinated while pregnant and then had a miscarriage. For this reason, the parent and her family members decided not to vaccinate themselves or their children, believing they...
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Taking It to the Streets
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Doriandra Smith is a problem solver. As the program manager for Whiteaker Community Council in Eugene, Oregon, she was given the task to see a COVID-19 street mural project to fruition. After eight months of developing a pilot program with the city and an arduous artist selection process, the plan was approved and assigned dates. The project then encountered multiple roadblocks, including a conflicting World Athletics Championship, paint shortages, vandalism, and protests. Smith jumped in to...
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Prizewinning Designs Protect Communities
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A design award and vaccinations were just a few of the results of the University of Alabama Department of Art & Art History’s efforts to bridge the arts and health to vaccinate Alabamans. Design professor Jonathan Cumberland’s “vaccine confidence” posters, which won a national award from Graphic Design USA, highlighted community-oriented messages like “Protect Sunday Pot Luck” and “Hurry, Let Children Play Again” with evocative imagery and brilliant colors. “This project helped to make new...
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Video Games and Vaccinations
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Inspired by the colorful poster of a teen boy holding an oversized vaccine syringe under the heading “Be a community hero!,” a curious young man entered the Spy Hop Productions digital media arts center in Salt Lake City, Utah, to look around. The center was hosting a block party and offering the public an opportunity to engage with the newly launched, student-led Vax2theMax 2.0. This campaign included creative posters, a “Pathogens” video game, and screening of a public service announcement...
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Giving Voice to Healthcare Heroes
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The exhibit, “Return to Normal? COVID Diaries from Local Youth,” was created by two artists with the input of local high school and college students, and organized by St. Paul, Minnesota-based Springboard for the Arts. The students created diary-style artworks in multiple mediums inspired by interviews with local healthcare workers exploring the pandemic’s emotional toll. “It was humanizing because we all look up to healthcare workers and even though they were strong, they struggled through the...
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My Community/Mi Comunidad
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Nearly 2,000 visitors to Denver, Colarado’s Museo de las Americas viewed the COVID-19 film “My Community/Mi Comunidad,” created by Latino filmmaker, Manuel Aragon. The film featured the voices of local Latino artists who shared their experiences with the COVID-19 vaccine, and was screened as part of the museum’s Cultural First Friday event in July 2022.. Volunteers distributed flyers and surveys to interested visitors, and 81% of respondents answered that they were likely to receive the COVID-19...
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Community Advocate Born of Resistance
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When a member of the COVID-19 outreach team for the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Latino Community Center contacted a single mother of four about the COVID-19 vaccine, the mother was extremely resistant. Not only did she ignore their voicemail messages, she actually hung up on a team member who called her a week later. Although they didn’t know it, the Center's “COVID-Champions” had been successful in planting the seed of change. Eventually, the mother called back with questions – what were the...
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Alleviating Second Thoughts
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Doris Toure had her first COVID-19 vaccine months before the doubts began to creep in, and soon she became skeptical about whether or not she would need a second dose. That is, until she met Vanessa Jackson, a community health advocate with Jefferson Health Foundation - New Jersey at a Vaccine Equity Event held in a Camden laundromat. While discussing Toure’s uncertainty, Jackson explained the reasons why the second dose was important. “Ms. Toure was kind and listened to the data I shared with...
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Barbershop Bonding
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Throughout their COVID-19 vaccination efforts, Arts Alliance Illinois has relied on the voices of trusted community members. Some of these voices have been heard in conversation at a Carbondale, Illinois barbershop, where Black men of all ages often gather. As part of the Arts Alliance project, a local artist painted a mural on the side of the barbershop’s building, commemorating the many generations of men who have found their community at the barbershop. Inspired by their surroundings...
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Asking the Right Questions
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As a “healing community” of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS working to end AIDS and homelessness, Housing Works, Inc. headquartered in Brooklyn, NY continued to serve their community throughout the pandemic. As part of a slate of COVID-19 community testing events, vaccination clinics, telehealth services, and more, Housing Works, Inc. also conducted a survey to better understand clients’ reasons for declining or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine. The survey results helped outreach...
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Dance Drama
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As communities across the nation and world struggled to adjust to the pandemic, some also had the added challenge of facing anti-Asian racism. In response, Asian Media Access debuted their dance drama “Resonance” in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The drama’s narrative mirrored the composer’s experience over the course of the pandemic, using dances and traditional body movements to illustrate the complex journey through learning about the existence of COVID-19, recognizing the disaster, feeling angry...
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Community Immunity: Let’s Rap About Vaccines
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Hip Hop Public Health in New York City produced this original music video featuring dynamic animated characters performing an original hip hop song encouraging people to ignore misinformation and get vaccinated for COVID-19. One of seven animated videos, this piece features the voice of Grammy®-winning rapper and Hip Hop Public Health Advisory Board member Darryl DMC McDaniels of Run-DMC, who worked alongside award-winning producer Artie Green and singer-songwriter Gerry Gunn.
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Let the Games Begin!
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Studio Two Three’s Stronger Together project was designed in response to a critical health equity gap in Richmond, Virginia. Understanding the community’s pandemic fatigue, Kate Fowler, the director of partnerships and development, alongside primary partners at Richmond Public Schools, created and launched a series of community field days in which participants ran races and played games. One thousand “Stronger Together: Get Vaccinated” tote bags and t-shirts were distributed, along with a...
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Finding Support After Prison
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The Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) delivers healthcare solutions for underserved Utahns. Throughout the pandemic, UHPP dispatched various Health Access Assisters to attend local events and reach residents with accurate information about COVID-19. At one event, these Assisters helped initially reluctant families get vaccinated while learning about health, insurance coverage, and school and family resources. An Assister found "D" in line at their re-entry fair providing support for those...
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Yes, And – Yes, Please!
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Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, a non-profit in Atlanta, Georgia, has a passion for Improvisational comedy. The team threw their creative energies into helping their community get vaccinated for COVID-19. Throughout the spring and summer of 2022, the group put on hour-long vaccine themed improv shows. Four actors and a musician created the first half of the show by playing improvised scenes based on live suggestions from the audience, while working in information about the importance of COVID-19...
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La Familia, Tu Familia
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The La Familia food distribution extravaganza in South Hayward, California distributed boxes of food and information about COVID-19 vaccines and testing to 500 people in a single day. At this event, COVID-19 vaccinations were given to 94 community residents, most of whom were Latinx day laborers receiving their first doses. La Familia attributes its success to establishing trust with community residents by meeting their basic human needs, and providing accurate information about COVID-19 and the...
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Health Equity at Work
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Health Equity Solutions (HES), an organization promoting equitable health care for all people in Connecticut, focuses on reaching historically underrepresented populations, including low-income and Black/African American and Hispanic and Latino communities. HES has worked closely with vaccine-hesitant individuals and supported their transformations into vaccine advocates. In addition to training new advocates, the organization co-hosts vaccine clinics with barbershops, hair salons, universities...
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Radio DJs #DropTheBeatOnCovid
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In early 2022, radio personality DJ Big Boi of Panama City, Florida, station 99.3 posted a message on Facebook about contracting COVID-19: “Mild symptoms! Very mild. Thank God for the shots!!!! I’ll be broadcast from home this week.” LEAD Coalition of Bay County, Inc. saw an opportunity and asked Big Boi to put his testimony on a billboard in the city. He agreed, and his message – “Thanks to the COVID Vaccine I survived COVID!” – was the beginning of a series of collaborations with LEAD to...
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A U-Turn Towards Advocacy
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Public Health Solutions (PHS) began delivering COVID-19 Vaccine Ambassador training during the pandemic, featuring clear descriptions and demonstrations of how COVID-19 spreads. “Our training provided a good springboard on how to engage vaccine hesitancy with Jamaica Queens community members,” said Morales, a PHS member. One vaccine ambassador trainee evolved from spreading misinformation about nefarious government strategies to becoming a community vaccine advocate.
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A Fair-ly Easy Vaccination
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Established in the 1960s as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty, Newcap, Inc. now serves ten counties across Wisconsin. In March 2020, the non-profit held a resource fair in Brown County where eleven vendors offered information, food, and other resources in Spanish and English. Among the varied resources were COVID-19 vaccinations, bilingual nurses and even a success coach. A young mother too busy to arrange a vaccination appointment was thrilled to discover she could get...
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Asylum Seekers Find Support in Massachusetts
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While distributing flyers for an upcoming vaccine clinic at a local school in the Boston area, a La Colaborativa health promoter met a mother and her children that had newly arrived from El Salvador as asylum seekers fleeing drug traffickers. The promoter helped secure food, clothing, and gift cards for the family, and connected the family to a health care navigator at a local health system. Even though the mother explained that her husband disagreed with her about vaccinating their children...
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Protecting Her Family
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The HOPE clinic at Medical Advocacy & Outreach (MAO) in Montgomery, Alabama receives many patients who have heard misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, and their staff is prepared to provide accurate information to everyone that drives up. Early in the pandemic, one patient, Ms. D, had two young children at home when she found herself unexpectedly pregnant with twins. She had felt judged by her former resource office but developed a close bond with the MAO team during her monthly prenatal...
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Family-Sized Vaccination Appointments
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Many people interested in getting vaccinated for COVID-19 face tremendous barriers, such as lack of transportation, inability to make appointments online, and limited time outside of work. Understanding these challenges, the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington (KCSC) held a family vaccination event offering adult and pediatric vaccines and bagged groceries to take home. One family in attendance – two full-time working parents and their three children – had made multiple failed...
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Community Groups Unite to Expand Vaccine Access
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By forging a number of fruitful community partnerships, The Illinois Public Health Association’ (IPHA) was able to hold a number of vaccine clinics this year. One of these was held in partnership with the Illinois Migrant Council at the Church of the Nazarene/Iglesia del Nazareno in Effingham, Illinois. This clinic resulted in 28 vaccinations, a success in an area where vaccination rates had lagged. The IPHA later worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)...
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Washing Away Vaccine Doubts
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Martha Alvarado, a long-time volunteer for the Granite State Organizing Project (GSOP) in New Hampshire, spent a day at a laundromat. She approached a family of six – a mother, father, and their four children – to speak to them about the importance of COVID-19 vaccines and GSOP’s upcoming vaccination clinic. The mother dismissed Alvarado before she could get a word out, so Alvarado respectfully moved on to chat with other patrons of the laundromat. Before leaving, she approached the father of...
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Dozier’s Devotion to Vaccine Uptake
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The Center for Black Women’s Wellness considers Atlanta city councilman Jason Dozier’s visit to their wellness clinic to receive his COVID-19 vaccine one of their proudest moments. By choosing their clinic and sharing his vaccination over social media, other community members were encouraged to visit the clinic and get vaccinated for COVID-19 too. In addition to Dozier’s publicity, the Center has worked with a variety of partners, including local apartment complexes, to conduct mobile COVID-19...
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A Fairytale Ending for Princess
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Michigan-based Princess Brown, RN had already worked in healthcare for some 30 years when the pandemic hit. As she typically focuses on natural approaches to health and wellness, she was skeptical of the newly arrived COVID-19 vaccines. "I swore to never allow myself to be inoculated with what I termed [was] the mark of the beast,” she said. A year later, still unvaccinated, Brown found a new job as a Case Manager at Elmhurst Home, Inc., a substance abuse and mental health treatment center in...
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Websites Work!
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When Emmanuel Communities set up a booth at a health fair in southern Florida, they distributed fliers in three languages — English, Spanish, and Creole – and facilitated 50 COVID-19 vaccinations. But not every attendee chose to be vaccinated that day. One gentleman who stopped by the booth was uncertain about how the vaccine would affect him and left unvaccinated – but he took a flyer home with him. After reading the flyer and later visiting Emmanuel Communities' VaxTruths website, he changed...
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Food & Vaccinations on the Fly
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Capitalizing on a food distribution event at a substance abuse recovery organization late last year, the Ohio-based Famicos Foundation held a simultaneous pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic to support attendees in getting vaccinated. Famicos partnered with multiple organizations to pull off this hybrid event. While the recovery organization provided the facility, the Cleveland Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP, also a CDC Foundation P4VE recipient) brought vaccine...
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Radio Show Dishes Out Accurate Information
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In a world struggling for fair access to quality health care and information, Chicago-based Equal Hope is on a mission to provide superior health education to their community. In addition to supplying free health resources, education on breast and cervical cancer, medical home health, and COVID-19 testing and vaccination, Equal Hope goes a step further by hosting a Saturday radio show called “Equal Health for All” on Chicago station WVON 1690AM. On the program, they host experts and doctors to...
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Local Partnerships Build Trust
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The Coalition of African Communities (AFRICOM) partnered with community and faith-based organizations, primarily in Southwest and Northeast Philadelphia to engage with community members in addressing vaccine hesitancy and misinformation relating to COVID-19. Through partnering with local and state health departments, AFRICOM coordinated the distribution of over 300 COVID-19 vaccinations and empowered immigrant community members in the Philadelphia area to make informed decisions when receiving...
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Building a Healthier Community through Artistic Expression
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The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (JCAL) launched the Jamaica Vaxxscene initiative to commission visual, performing, and literary artists to promote the safety, efficacy, and necessity of vaccination against COVID-19 and influenza in their Southeast Queens neighborhood of New York City. The projects included an animated series for younger viewers and an expressive tile painting workshop for seniors. Though JCAL staff member Hernan Mery was not one of the commissioned artists, he was...
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Personal Outreach to Inmates Makes All the Difference
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During the peak of the Delta Variant surge, Hawai’i’s community prisons and jails were overwhelmed with cases of COVID-19. This population has a long history of distrusting government initiatives, and their low vaccination rates added to the problem of COVID-19 spread in these correctional facilities. Recognizing the urgency of the problem, the Hawai’i Public Health Institute (HIPHI) stepped in to provide outreach and education. In partnership with FilCom CARES and Kat Brady, Coordinator of...
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Consul-General motivates Thai-American community to vaccinate in Arizona
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Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA) knows the value of community engagement while advocating for high-quality, affordable healthcare for community members regardless of their legal status or languages that they speak. Check out this virtual outreach event in Arizona earlier this year, for which they recruited a Thai Consul-General to talk about the Covid-19 vaccine. APCA’s community health worker Jiraanong Manceau, a certified Thai interpreter, ably moderated the dialogue. The Consul is...
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Radio Host Survives COVID-19 and Broadcasts the Importance of Vaccines
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After Goshen, Indiana, resident and popular radio host Pilar Rodriguez recovered from a severe case of COVID-19, she could not let others miss the opportunity to be protected. She became a Unite Against COVID-19 influencer with the Northern Indiana Hispanic Health Coalition (NIHHC) and shared her experience with listeners of her regional La Raza Radio program. Her story was heard over the radio across five counties, and also featured in television advertisements. NIHHC has provided more than 2...
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Influential Messengers Improve Community Health in Inglewood
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Christ-Centered Ministries (CCM) supports 240 revolving clients with interim housing, mental health stabilization, and substance use disorder support programs in Inglewood, California. During the pandemic, CCM equipped many of their clients to become influential messengers to spread awareness about COVID-19 and promote vaccine events among their peers. Between November 2021 and April 2022, CCM held four events, providing the COVID-19 and influenza vaccine as well as sharing general healthcare...
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Local Religious Scholar Has Global Influence on Vaccine Confidence
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In their COVID-19 response, C-ASSIST partnered with influential messenger Syed Quazwini, a Muslim scholar of Iraqi origin who leads a congregation in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The C-ASSIST team met with Quazwini on several occasions to discuss the importance of fighting misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, the urgent need for community members to become vaccinated, and the religious duty individuals have toward their family, friends, and community. Quazwini preached every Friday prayer...
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Relationship Building in South Central LA
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In South Central LA, Community Development Technologies Center (CDTech) relied on a team of trusted messengers to promote Covid-19 and flu vaccinations. Through a combination of door-to-door canvassing, pop-ups, and a town hall event, CDTech connected community members to vital resources. Team members built relationships and empowered residents - providing comfort, education, and connections to local resources - and carried out surveys and technical projects. They were grateful to be welcomed by...
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Families Vaccinating Together
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Aiming to ensure healthy households, the Korean Community Service Center of Greater Washington (KCSC) recently held a family vaccination event where both adult and pediatric vaccines were offered. One family in attendance – two full-time working parents and three children at different levels in school – had made multiple attempts to schedule vaccinations. They found it nearly impossible to schedule appointments at times that could work for the entire family. Discouraged, they had needed to put...
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Community Leader Forges a Path
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Like many people she knew, Anahi was afraid of receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. A mother of six, orchard worker, and chair of Unite Oregon’s Climate Justice Committee in Rogue Valley, she feared potential side effects. Unite Oregon works across the state to build a unified, intercultural movement for justice. They offered COVID-19 vaccine education and outreach training, and facilitated one-on-one conversations with vaccinated organizers for committee members like Anahi. After receiving updated...
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A Heathy Start in a New Country
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After arriving in the US, Guatemalan immigrant Juan found it difficult to access COVID-19 vaccination. Then he heard about the Central American Resource Education Center’s (CARECEN) Day Labor Center. In addition to connecting workers with employees in the Los Angeles area, the Center held a vaccine clinic staffed by PRIME clinic. In this safe and accessible place, Juan was vaccinated for COVID-19. He is now more comfortable searching for jobs and getting to know his community in his new city...
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“Old-School” Approach Succeeds in Remote Colorado Community
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In the rural community of Nederland, Colorado, many residents lack phone and internet access, and their transportation options are limited. These barriers make it challenging for people to get to a clinic to receive a Covid-19 vaccine. The Peak to Peak Housing and Human Services Alliance collaborated with The Metro Denver Partnership for Health to implement innovative approaches in this hard-to-reach population. That meant “going old school,” in the words of Katrina Harms, Peak to Peak Alliance...
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Caring Outreach to Immigrants from Guatemala
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Determined outreach paved the way for Centreville Immigration Forum (CIF) to provide welcoming vaccine clinics to their community of Guatemalan immigrants in Northern Virginia. While many community members were distrustful or ill-informed about the Covid-19 vaccines, health workers like Claudia Alvarez stepped in to listen and educate. She led a team that performed outreach to local schools, churches, stores, restaurants, and homes. Her team spoke the Guatemalan indigenous dialect Ixil with...
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Clothes to Keep You Warm, Vaccines to Keep You Healthy
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Brighton Park Neighborhood Council (BPNC) provides services for unhoused residents in Chicago, including coat and clothing drives during the city’s bitterly cold winters. BPNC operates in the southwest Chicago neighborhood Brighton Park, primarily among a Latinx and immigrant community. And for Carmen, a BPNC health promoter, dispelling incorrect notions about ineligibility and unsafe vaccines has become second nature. For a clothing drive in October 2020, Carmen invited a man living on the...
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Small but Mighty Clinic Exceeds Expectations in Atlanta
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When Boat People SOS hosted vaccination event in November 2021 at a community church in Atlanta, Georgia, staff at the Vietnamese-American international nonprofit weren’t sure they would get a decent turnout. They advertised over the radio and Facebook and put up banners in the church, but they doubted their many volunteers from Emory School of Nursing and Mercer School of Pharmacy would have enough work to do. “Soon we found out that it was a good thing that we got a lot of help,” program...
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Trust in Faith Leaders Builds Vaccine Confidence
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Naeem Baig recalls the big question: “Just tell me, Imam, should I take the [COVID-19] vaccine?” Baig is outreach director for the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in northern Virginia which serves a community of immigrants from all over the world. For many the Center serves, the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard, especially the more vulnerable members working in the service industry. Understanding the severe challenges facing these individuals and families, as well as the rapidly spreading misinformation...
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Black-owned Pharmacy Gets a Boost in East Durham
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Communities in Partnership sought to host local, equity-focused vaccination clinics, reaching their BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) neighbors in East Durham, North Carolina. They partnered with Russell’s Pharmacy, a Black-owned independent pharmacy struggling with a decline in customers due to the pandemic and competition with large medical systems and pharmacy chains. Russell’s Pharmacy handled the clinical side of the organization’s vaccination events and served as a community...
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Keeping Vaccines in Style
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Haircuts, vaccines, and a livestream? That was all a day’s work for Beacon Charitable Pharmacy, a non-profit pharmacy in northeastern Ohio. In partnership with four local, Black-owned barber and beauty shops, Beacon organized a livestream event in March to increase awareness of Beacon as a vaccine provider and to promote the availability of Covid-19 and flu vaccines at the pharmacy. The four-hour YouTube livestream included former NFL football player and local celebrity Kenny Peterson, as well...
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A Blueprint for a More Inclusive Future
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Able South Carolina is an organization staffed and led by those with disabilities that focuses on creating greater equity and inclusion for all people with disabilities. As part of their ongoing efforts to expand vaccine confidence and uptake, the organization has hosted seven “barrier free” COVID-19 and influenza vaccine clinics in 2022 that were designed to be easily accessible to all, including those with disabilities. The clinics included both Spanish and American Sign Language...
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Radio shows, podcasts and fitness events drive vaccinations in Baton Rouge
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To fight vaccine hesitancy in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the Baton Rouge Black Alcoholism Council (BRBAC) built community partnerships with medical professionals, influential messengers, and radio broadcasters. Also known as Metro Health, BRBAC partnered with CareSouth to dispel Covid-19 myths and promote community vaccinations. The partnership began in September 2021 and included a community fitness event, vaccination event, radio shows, and podcasts. Partnership outreach, media strategies, and...
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Helping Local Families in East Tennessee
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When local Tennessee resident Reyna and her family were severely impacted by Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic, the 55-year-old Latina mom turned to Centro Hispano of East Tennessee. She and her family received health, housing, and food assistance. As Reyna became more involved in the Centro's programs, she also began to learn about their vaccine campaign. After learning that the vaccine was safe and effective and how to access it, Reyna and her family were vaccinated at Centro Hispano...