COVID-19 Resources
Last Updated: April 10, 2020
Boston groups are compiling lists of resources for communities. Please share and email us with any updates at massjobswithjustice@gmail.com
The most current state, national, and international information can be found on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) websites.
Information can be found on the MDPH COVID-19 Fact Sheets: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, and Vietnamese.
An online resource in dozens of language here.
Resources for Online Communication/Work
Accessibility Teaching considerations for making online courses accessible
Resource: What to do if you’ve become unemployed in Massachusetts : here
Resources from MIRA Coalition
MIRA has a comprehensive resource page on our website on COVID-19. This page includes public health resources in multiple languages that can be shared with immigrant and refugee families, as well as relevant information on immigration policy and enforcement.
Prisons & Detention Resources
These resources draw from the work of organizers and academics across the country, including the ACLU, Color of Change, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and defenders. Special thanks to the Prison Policy Initiative for their insight, research, and leading the discussion on this important issue. Here is a link to the PPI report upon which many of these ideas are drawn.
https://thejusticecollaborative.com/covid19/
Boston Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Network (beyondbondboston.org) Resources
These are based off of the guidelines used by the Boston Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Network (beyondbondboston.org). Feel free to adapt and localize for your group.
Immigrant Justice Accompaniment Skill-Share - Covid-19/Coronavirus Resources Boston
Sharing Mutual Aid Information
Coronavirus Resource Kit (here)
Healing Justice Resource List (here)
Responding to Social Emergencies from Design Studio for Social Interventions (here)
Amplifying Solidarity Demands
Partnership for Working Families’ Open Letter to Local Leaders re Worker Protections (here)
What do caregivers need? (Oped from AiJen Poo, NDWA, here)
Prison Policy Initiative’s examples of policies that can spread viral pandemic in prisons and jails (here)
Demands for worker and migrant justice from National Day Laborer Organizing Network (here)
Open Letter from Public Health Experts and Scholars (here) focusing on a range of asks from temporary halts to evictions to immigration enforcement-free zones
Preventing xenophobia and anti-Asian racism (letter from National Council of Asian Pacific Americans here)
Asking Funders for Support
Coronavirus, boom and bust election funding, and an impending recession (an article in the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy) provides suggestions for both funders as well as the asks that grantees can make of funders. More here.
Covid-19 Resources in Other Languages
Cartoon Explanation with Details for Service Workers--Spanish - From Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD)
An extensive list from the Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS).
Boston COVID-19 Community Care
http://bit.ly/bostonresources-covid19
Boston + MA COVID-19 Resources by Asian American Resource Workshop
Mutual Aid
Communities are organizing local community aid efforts using this google toolkit. http://bit.ly/covid19-mutual-aid
See our post here for more information and list of communities forming programs.
Human Network Initiative is coordinating these efforts locally. Please see their website for updates or to list your network: https://www.humannetworkinitiative.com/neighborhoods
Instructions to Form Community Mutual Aid
http://bit.ly/covid19-mutual-aid
Resources for Parents
GIANT LIST OF IDEAS FOR BEING HOME WITH KIDS
Free Online Learning Resources (fee waived for many)
StopLearningLoss is a non-profit committed to helping parents and teachers make time out of school educational through resource sharing.
FOOD
Free groceries will be provided Mondays at 5:30 pm at Make Shift Boston (549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, 02118) for the duration of the crisis. Donate through the Lucy Parsons Center.
Violence in Boston Inc and Food for the Soul Grove Hall are providing lunch and dinner for Boston Public Schools students (lunch 12-2pm, dinner 5-8pm). They are also accepting donations of funds and needed items (toiletries, paper towels, tissues, cleaning supplies, hand sanitizer, and toilet paper). For more information, call 617-652-0151.
Sign up to volunteer with the meal relief program.
Drop off needed items at 651 Warren Street, Boston, 02121.
Donate funds at paypal.me/violenceinboston
via SURJ email for Boston based groups.
Free Lunch and Breakfast Map for School Aged Kids: https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/8098
https://www.boston.com/boston-helps has interactive maps that show food pickup locations in the Boston area.