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CONNECT TO END COVID-19Social Workers Support Informed Vaccine Decision-Making
Every day many more people are becoming partially or fully vaccinated, but there are many others who have not been vaccinated, despite the demonstrated safety of the vaccines and their high degree of effectiveness in preventing severe illness and death. Social workers, as professionals who provide services in a wide range of community settings, and who are trusted messengers, are in a unique position to promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence, access, and uptake — particularly among populations with low vaccination rates and higher vulnerability to severe forms of infection. NASW and the NASW Foundation are partnering with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded (CDC) initiative to support social workers and their clients in informed vaccine decision-making. Join NASW’s national Connect to End COVID-19 effort, a CDC-funded initiative to support social workers and their clients in informed vaccine decision-making. Complimentary webinars and CEUs available.
Get Four Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order an additional 4 free at-home tests beginning November 20. If you did not order tests this fall, you may place two orders for a total of 8 tests. Your order of COVID tests is completely free – you won’t even pay for shipping.
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Vaccine Education with "Connect to End COVID-19" Learn about "Connect to End COVID-19," an initiative that helps social workers and their clients to make informed decisions about life-saving vaccines. The latest podcast episode focuses on how social workers can talk to harder-to-reach special populations about vaccines and use motivational interviewing to inform people about vaccines. Listen to the podcast episode - https://www.socialworkers.org/Practice/Infectious-Diseases/COVID-19-Vaccine-Confidence/COVID-19-Social-Work-Talks-Podcasts
More resources here - pa.gov/covid
Special Populations In Pennsylvania, special populations with lower vaccine uptake include people who live in more rural counties, certain legislative districts, and children under the age of 12. Special populations with lower vaccine uptake and higher risk of being disproportionally impacted by COVID 19 include people who are pregnant and Black and Hispanic people. Special Populations Sources: Vaccine Hesitancy for COVID-19 | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov) COVID-19 Vaccine Rates by Legislative District | PA Open Data Portal Children and COVID-19 Vaccination Trends (aap.org) Individual and social determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake - PubMed (nih.gov) Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity | KFF In the News
This project and publication/program/website/blog/presentation (etc.) are supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $3.3 million with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
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