COVID-19 Resources

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Coping During COVID-19

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GENERAL COPING/SELF CARE RESOURCES

FACE COVID - how to cope effectively with the coronavirus by Coronado SAFE (Student and Family Enrichment). This uses the FACE COVID acronym to outline practical strategies for coping. This group also has a page filled with resources (some of them are specific to Coronado County, but many are generalizable.

Advice for coping with coronavirus: from UK based social scientist and ‘Agony Aunt’ (advice columnist) Petra Boynton, PhD.

Virtual care package: Google Drive filled with interesting activities and inspiration by Giles Paley-Philips, author and musician

TARGETED RESOURCES

Young people of color

The Steve Fund, a national organization dedicated to the mental health and wellbeing of adolescents, teens, and young adults of color.

• Maintaining mental health during the pandemic - a list of advice and resources
• Crisis line - students can text STEVE to 741741 to be connected to a culturally trained crisis counselor.

Parents & Families

Family Connects International Resources for Parents: out of Duke, this organization has a comprehensive list of resources for parents, breastfeeding, fathers, kids and more

Videos for kids to understand the current situation

• Coronavirus explainer by Brian Pop, includes basic information about the virus, why we have to wash hands and stay home, and worries about the news
• How the immune system works by TED Ed (when this follows the above video, kids can feel safer knowing our bodies have a way to fight viruses)

Domestic Violence

Domestic violence victims or advocates from National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)

Academics

For graduate students/researchers from Virtual not Viral

For Higher Education and Libraries from Ithaka S+R this includes resources for teaching, datasets related to COVID-19, university library specific resources, and media/blog posts specific to academics and higher education

AcaDames a podcast for women faculty has been doing some episodes recently about coronavirus

Asynchronous class visits: a crowd sourced list of already recorded lectures that can be assigned in conjunction with texts or independent research projects