Dear John, 

We are sharing some resources from PIF and member organizations this week. New resources address everything from an advocates’ guide to the Biden public charge regulation’s impact on children to strategies for outreach to immigrant families on COVID-19 and flu vaccination.

Join PIF and partners to learn best practices to conduct effective COVID and Flu vaccine promotion in immigrant communities, using new educational materials developed specifically for immigrants who speak Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. Support your community in overcoming the myths and fears related to vaccination – especially any immigration-related concerns – and use vaccine promotion as a launchpad for immigrant advocacy! The webinar will be held on Monday, November 14, at 4pm ET / 1pm PT. 

Election Day is November 8, and naturalized immigrants all over the country are getting ready to go to the polls. This USAHello guide provides guidance on how to vote, where to vote, voting rights, language access, and other important issues for immigrant voters. Resources are available in several languages.

Open Enrollment for the federal Health Care Marketplace started Tuesday (November 1) and CMS has a new resource, Health Coverage Options for Immigrants, available in 15 languages other than English: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The resource describes immigrant eligibility rules for the marketplace, Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare coverage with a focus on overcoming particular barriers that immigrants and their families may face. It also provides information about documents that can be used to verify immigration status, applying for coverage on behalf of family members, resolving data matching problems. It also includes requirements and best practices for working with immigrants, such as the legal requirement to provide interpretation and written translation free of charge and tips for consumer assisters when working with immigrants and their family members.

The National Immigration Law Center released a new Know Your Rights resource to help immigrants and undocumented people navigate questions and concerns about accessing abortion care following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal. PIF's Community Education Working Group worked with NILC to develop the resource.

CMS published a Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Enrollment Unwinding Toolkit, with tools translated into six languages (Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese) to help get the word out about the Medicaid and CHIP Continuous Enrollment unwinding and steps to take now. The toolkit includes easy to use social media graphics and an attractive flyer that reminds people to update their mailing address, watch for a renewal notice, and open their mail.

First Focus on Children has updated their policy brief on the public charge rule. With a focus on the approximately 1-in-4 children in the United States who have an immigrant parent, the brief examines the impact of the public charge policy on children and their families. This excellent background document provides a clear overview of public charge and can be used in PIF partner advocacy and education with policymakers, communicators, and others. 

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