The Nextdoor app, which connects people with others in their neighborhoods, is full of people offering to help higher-risk individuals with whatever they need as they self isolate. Whether it's picking up food, groceries, or medicine, there's a lot of kindness to be found on the app.
What Americans Are Doing Now Is Beautiful. The public’s response to the coronavirus will stand as a remarkable moment of national mobilization.
Small Garment Companies Take the Lead in the Fight Against COVID-19
People and groups with sewing machines and knowhow are coming together to make face masks for healthcare workers facing the PPE shortages.
Recalling better times is also a great gift of healing. George Albano of The Hour yesterday kindly leads his “Looking Back” column with this wonderful Carver memory:
After winning the regular-season title, the George Washington Carver Center seventh-grade boys basketball team capped off an undefeated season with three tournament victories to capture the Fairfield County Basketball League championship. The Norwalkers, behind a dominating frontcourt of Roy Kane Jr, Timothy Hinton and Dante Francis, combined with the guard play of Justice Page, Ray Featherston, Davante Thomas and Jermey Linton, defeated Danbury PAL 56-36, Greenwich YMCA 55-52, and the Stamford Youth Huskies 67-63 to claim the crown.
A junior at Yale, and a friend, Simone Policano, amassed 1,300 volunteers in 72 hours to deliver groceries and medicine to older New Yorkers and other vulnerable people. They call themselves Invisible Hands.
Neighborhood groups across the Washington area are forming militias of caring and help.
IN EUROPE "A team of firefighters and volunteers turned a 15,000-square-foot convention center hall in Vienna into a new 880-bed coronavirus hospital over the course of a weekend. Soldiers in Germany, France and Spain have been deployed to help build similar temporary facilities for thousands of patients. Across Europe, tens of thousands of nurses and doctors are being graduated early or called back from retirement.”
Free Resources for Youth at Home
Common Sense Media provides media, distance learning and stress reduction resources
Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings
Enrichment Activities While Parents and Caregivers Work Remotely (150+ activities based on no, little or some caregiver involvement.)
National Traumatic Stress Network - No supply needed activities to keep youth across grade levels engaged.
Reading Adventure Packets by Reading Rockets - Each reading adventure pack includes a caregiver information sheet, two books, a creativity activity, an imagination activity, and a get real activity.
Responding to Change and Loss, National Alliance for Grieving Children
Scholastic Learn At Home - Resources to help youth across grade levels learn remotely.
Web-based virtual tours with Museums, National Parks, Zoos, and more!
The following resources will help caregivers to facilitate conversations with youth as COVID-19 continues to evolve:
New York Times, How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus
National Association of School Psychologists, Talking to Children About COVID-19: A Parent Resource
Video Conferencing and Chat:
Free 90 day access to Adobe Connect for up to 25 participants.