COVID-19 Community Coordinators
To continue to serve Minnesotans in ways that meet diverse community needs, MDH has contracted with 48 community partners through June 2024. The contracts extend MDH’s existing pandemic work with COVID-19 Community Coordinators.
COVID-19 Community Coordinators serve communities hit hardest by COVID-19, including communities of color, American Indian communities, LGBTQ communities and Minnesotans with disabilities. They can answer questions about topics such as COVID-19 testing and vaccination, food support, health care and mental health resources, housing and rental assistance, and employment resources. COVID-19 Community Coordinators draw on community strengths and trusted community networks to support Minnesotans who need COVID-19 information specific to their communities, including in their native languages.
To learn more and find a community partner, visit COVID-19 Community Coordinators.
COVID-19 Stories of Community Outreach and Partnership
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.
Project Resonance: Reflecting on our COVID-19 journey
Asian Media Access (AMA) is a community media arts education agency that supports communities to overcome challenges through education, production, information technology, and community organizing. AMA partnered with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) to tap into community cultures, wisdom, and knowledge in promoting equitable access to COVID-19 prevention and response resources.
AMA and Pan Asian Arts Alliance (PAAM) came together to create a rich cultural dance show, AMA: Project Resonance, to reflect and showcase the story of their unity and resiliency in fighting the pandemic. Project Resonance is an artistic illustration of the importance of cultural understandings, collaborations, and other hard-won successes in the face of fear, anxieties, and frustrations that gripped the Asian community during the pandemic. Through culturally and artistically nuanced dance movements, the voice and pain of the community is heard and seen.
Read more: Project Resonance: Reflecting on our COVID-19 journey
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