This vaccination resource library curated by the National Rural Health Association includes conversation starters and toolkits for addressing health misinformation that can help employers share vaccine facts and improve vaccination access for employees and families.
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The Biden administration launched this website to enable better access to vaccines, tests, treatments, masks, as well as the latest updates on COVID-19. The website includes a Test-to-Treat locator that can help people access pharmacies and community health centers to get tested and receive appropriate treatments.
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This website contains answers to vaccine-related FAQs in 7 languages, including information on how vaccines protect against variants and information about breakthrough infections. There is also a dedicated section for parents and caregivers, which includes information about how the COVID-19 vaccines work for kids, whether the vaccines are safe, and why doses are different for younger children.
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This guidance for school administrators outlines strategies for k-12 schools to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain safe operations, including promoting vaccination, consistent and correct mask use, and improving ventilation.
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Using census data, researchers estimate that 167,082 children under 18—more than one out of every 450—lost a parent or other in-home caregiver to COVID-19. This report discusses the impacts of this loss on children and provides recommendations for addressing the clinical and economic needs of COVID-bereaved children.
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This guidance helps schools and families keep in-person learning safe and inclusive for students with disabilities. Strategies include leveraging the IEP processes to ensure protections are in place; implementing layered prevention strategies such as vaccinations, masking, and testing; and ensuring students receive education in both the safest and least restrictive environment.
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This article documents how school districts have been using COVID-19 testing to detect infections early and reduce disruptions to learning. Strategies include regular, widespread COVID-19 testing; providing home testing kits to families for children to take before returning after the holiday break; and test-to-stay practices to keep exposed staff and students in school if they test negative for the virus. The article also discusses how some districts have been able to provide continuous instruction during widescale quarantines and the importance of planning for hybrid learning models.
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This toolkit for parents provides answers to frequently asked questions, talking points, tips, and other science-based information about COVID-19 and vaccines that can be used in conversations and shared in-person or through social media.
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This toolkit includes resources for school district leaders and administrators, teachers, parent leaders, and school supporters on COVID-19 vaccines, including safe schools checklists, speakers guides, guidance on hosting vaccination clinics and much more.
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This webpage contains tools, templates, and step-by-step information on how to set up a school COVID-19 testing program in schools. It includes guidance on identifying testing teams, getting consent, setting up software, setting a testing schedule, and conducting contact tracing.
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This article explains how well-fitted, high-filtration, and comfortable masks are effective in protecting against COVID. It also includes links to recommended masks for children and suggestions on where to find legitimate masks and reusing masks.
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This guidance, which recommends universal masking for fall 2021, includes information on physical distancing, facial coverings and personal protective equipment, symptom screening, COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, quarantining, cleaning and disinfection, ventilation, and sports.
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This website has guides, templates, and sample messages for district leaders and others to use as part of a public education campaign to increase vaccination rates.
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This opinion piece uses national data on pediatric hospitalizations and school closures to show the importance of adhering to multilayered mitigation strategies, in particular masking, which has been a core strategy in countries that have successfully kept schools open.
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This website includes decision-making tools with guiding principles and mitigation strategies for school reopening.
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This website compiles resources for child care administrators and providers, including state-by-state information on vaccines, public health guidance, child care closures, and supporting emergency workers.
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This brief lays out model standards for child care facilities to mitigate the risk of virus transmission, including standards for ventilation, bathrooms, and classroom configuration. It is intended to help states deliver consistent guidance on reopening child care programs and to help providers assess their own programs.
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This two-page fact sheet addresses issues of harassment and discrimination stemming from prejudice and unfounded fears about COVID-19 and explains what to do when a student experiences discrimination in school, including how to file a complaint with the Civil Rights Division.
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This guidance makes clear that masks should be worn indoors by all individuals over age 2 who are not fully vaccinated, especially in areas of moderate to high community transmission, and that transmission rates should be monitored to guide decisions on the use of prevention strategies.
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Based on guidance from the CDC, this handbook describes safe practices for in-person learning, including masking and physical distancing.
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This PDF provides a series of decision trees in use by San Diego County for their symptom screening and quarantine protocols that can be used as a model for other districts as well. It also lists appropriate test types and requirements to return to school.
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This guidance for school year 2021-22, released on July 12, builds upon the federal guidance but states that vaccinated students and staff should still wear masks because of the difficulty of tracking vaccination status and concerns about stigma and bullying.
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This detailed guide offers strategies for how to overcome vaccine hesitancy, such as the use of vaccine ambassadors and motivational interviewing, with concrete examples of these strategies in action.
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This toolkit provides several documents and guidance on how to encourage vaccination among staff, including printable posters and social media strategies.
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This website contains information on the four funding streams through which the federal government is supporting COVID-19 testing in schools.
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This guidance from the state of California recommends a new group-tracing approach to replace contact tracing. The group-tracing approach allows for a quicker and broader response to cases identified in school settings, and involves notifying groups of students who spent more than 15 minutes with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 during their period of infectiousness. It also addresses implementing test-to-stay approaches for all exposed students. The website also contains a link to a sample notification letter that schools can adapt for their own use.
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This guidebook offers a planning guide across four core areas (community health context, facilities and school operations, safe school environments, and cohorts for safe learning) to guide decision-making for in-person instruction.
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This toolkit has resources for organizations and individuals who want to help increase confidence in and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among high school students. It includes toolkits such as fact sheets about COVID-19 and vaccines, sample text messages to use in outreach to students, tips for students to support vaccination efforts, and guidance on which masks to use and how to wear them correctly.
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This resource provides action steps and resources for school leaders to support COVID-19 vaccine uptake and improve health literacy among staff, students, and families in their community, including setting up a school vaccination clinic and establishing partnerships with community health organizations.
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This article describes three types of high-quality masks, N95s, KN95s, and KF94s, why they provide better protection than cloth masks, and offers tips on how to avoid buying counterfeit masks.
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This webinar addresses how to use funding for literacy programs, student mental health and wellness, outdoor education programming, rapid COVID-19 testing, and more.
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This website describes ways schools can improve ventilation using American Rescue Plan funds, including servicing or upgrading HVAC systems, repairing windows, and purchasing MERV-13 filters.
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This document describes the independent study law in California, which is being used to provide an alternative to in-person instruction the 2021–22 school year, including during short intervals when students must quarantine.
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This webpage contains COVID-19-related resources using Chinese, Korean, Somali, Portuguese, Tagalog, Arabic, and other languages. Resources include vaccine fact sheets, treatment options, and information on testing.
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The Learning Network helps school and district leaders start or strengthen school COVID-19 testing and vaccination programs. Their website includes key takeaways, video clips, and resources from a series of webinars about running a school COVID-19 testing program. The website also includes an FAQ on using ESSER funding for testing and vaccination at K-12 public schools.
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This state guidance emphasizes continued mitigation strategies—vaccination clinics, masking, stable groups, and testing—in addition to a modified quarantine policy, which states that students exposed to COVID-19 may continue to attend in-person instruction if they are asymptomatic and both parties were masked.
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This website consolidates existing guidance; provides resources on funding, mitigation, and transparency; and explains the science behind the state’s reopening plan.
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This guidance suggests several ways to celebrate holidays more safely, including getting vaccinated, wearing well-fitting masks, and avoiding crowded and poorly ventilated spaces.
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This webpage includes links to several documents in both English and Spanish to support school staff, including decision trees and flyers that explain contact tracing procedures.
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Through this website, schools districts can apply to the California K-12 School Rapid Antigen Testing Program, which provides free testing supplies, training, and software to schools to support COVID-19 testing.
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This toolkit provides planning and communication resources for schools and immunization partners on school located vaccination clinics. The Association of Immunization Managers was founded in 1999 and is made up of members who are leaders of state, local, and territorial immunization programs in the United States.
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This website links to several resources for California schools to help administer vaccines, including request forms for mobile pop-up clinics, pharmacists, and volunteers.
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This website, divided into separate pages for organizations, schools, and individuals, provides an overview of resources offered by the state of California to support testing sites.
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California encourages parents to test their children for COVID-19 as they return to school from break and to share the test results with their local health department. This website contains resources for parents, including a fact sheet with steps they should follow to conduct at-home COVID-19 testing as well as social media images and messages in English and Spanish for districts and schools to share.
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This website provides concrete and actionable toolkits for operating schools during the pandemic, including strategies for cohorting and scheduling.
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This FAQ addresses common questions that parents may have about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for children. It explains how mRNA vaccines (such as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines) work and the research that explains why vaccines are now considered safe for young children.
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California’s SMARTER Plan outlines steps to prepare for future COVID-19 threats. Steps include monitoring data and utilizing waste-water surveillance to identify variants earlier and expanding school-based vaccinations sites by 25%.
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This document explains how school districts may use ARPA funds to incentivize participation in school-based COVID-19 screening testing to promptly identify cases, which will help reduce transmission within schools and reduce the risk of interruptions to in-person education.
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This resource explains why regular testing, in addition to vaccinations, is an effective way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and help keep schools open. It also introduces Test to Stay, which combines contact tracing and serial testing to allow individuals exposed to COVID-19 to remain in school if they do not test positive, even if they are not fully vaccinated.
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