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[Module] Covid-19 Mitigation Resource Guide for Advocates, Organizations, Shelters and Indigenous Communities

Covid-19 Mitigation Resource Guide for Advocates, Organizations, Shelters and Indigenous Communities
Goal: Building the Conditions for us to be “Safer” Together. 

Part 1: Community Care as a Guiding Practice to Covid-19 Mitigation
   a) What is Community Care?
      i) Examples of Community Care and Independence
   b) COVID-19 Mitigation: Workplace Community Care
      i) Layered Mitigations for In-Person Meetings & Travel Guidance
      ii) In-Office Community Care
      iii) In-Office Community Care: Community Care Agreements
      iv) In-Office Community Care: Air Ventilation and Filtration in the Office
      v) Internal Staff Correspondence
   c) Question Time: What is Community Care?
Part 2: Turning to Our Indigenous Value Systems When Creating Response Plans to Crisis
   a) Knowledge Keeper Prophecies: Teachings and Storytelling to Guide Values-Based Responses to Crisis and Disasters
      i) Knowledge Keeper External Recording Recommendation
      ii) Knowledge Keeper External Reading Recommendation
      iii) Reflection Question
Part 3: Centering the Most Impacted
   a) Covid-19 Impacts
   b) Long COVID, Also Known as Post COVID Conditions
   c) Long COVID: A Community Conversation on Disability, Equity, and Its Impact on Advocates and Survivors in Native Communities
      i) Resource List
   d) Impacts on the Workforce
Part 4: Moving Forward Together; Weaving Innovation and Traditional Knowledge
   a) Practicing Community Care by Cleaning the Indoor Air
      i) Layers of Prevention
         (1) Practicing Community Care by Cleaning the Air DIY Air Purifiers
         (2) C02 Readers
         (3) Far UVC/Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI)

   b) Collective Healing: Plant Medicine Allies to Support Long Covid Survivors and Collective Grief Now and Into the Future
   c) Free Federal COVID Resources
   d) NIWRC Bathing Bundles for Tribal Shelters
   e) Finish the Sentence
   f) Imagining Our Collective Future
 

Introduction | Slide Deck

Part 1: Community Care as a Guiding Practice to Covid-19 Mitigation

Resource: COVID-19 Mitigation: Workplace Community Care

Part 2: Turning to Our Indigenous Value Systems When Creating Response Plans to Crisis

Resource: Knowledge Keeper Prophecies: Teachings and Storytelling to Guide Values-Based Responses to Crisis and Disasters
Resource: Hopi Prophecy by Thomas Banyacya (1995) Part 1 and Part 2
Resource: Reading Recommendations - Black Elk Speaks book by John G. Neihardt

Part 4: Moving Forward Together; Weaving Innovation and Traditional Knowledge

Resource: Practicing Community Care by Cleaning the Indoor Air