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COVID-19 Stories of Community Outreach and Partnership?highlight the efforts of our staff in collaboration with community partners during the COVID-19 response. Some stories provide insight into how this work is done, others discuss what challenges our teams face, but all of them recognize how COVID-19 has pushed MDH to try new strategies so we can fulfill our mission of protecting, maintaining, and improving the health of all Minnesotans.
Co-creating messaging for culturally rooted outreach
As the first South African black president Nelson Mandela once said: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands? and in his language, that [message] goes to his heart." Few things impact a community as powerfully as receiving a message in a language and format its members can understand, relate to, and remember. Communicating in ways that are respectful and culturally appropriate for different ethnic communities addresses myths and misconceptions around health issues.
Recognizing the importance of sharing accurate information during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minnesota Department of Health partnered with dozens of local diverse media and culturally rooted organizations - including Bhutanese Community Organization Minnesota (BCOM) and Somali TV of Minnesota - to translate, package, and disseminate culturally and linguistically relevant and appropriate COVID-19 messaging for their communities.
Read more:?Co-creating Messaging for Culturally Rooted Outreach
Did you know that kids can get their COVID-19 vaccine along with other recommended shots on the same day? There is no need to wait to give the COVID-19 vaccine if your child is due for other vaccines at the same visit.
Getting vaccinated helps keep children safe and healthy! The COVID-19 vaccine is very effective at preventing hospitalizations, intensive care stays, and death in children and teens. COVID-19 can be severe for children and adolescents, even children who do not have underlying health conditions, and we can?t predict who would get very sick. It is possible children or teens could still get COVID-19 after being vaccinated, but it?s very unlikely they would get very sick from COVID-19. Learn more at About COVID-19.
Now is a good time to talk to your child?s health care provider about any vaccines your child is recommended to get, including COVID-19 vaccine, so they are ready for school in the fall.
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