The Office of Health Equity is proud to present a guidebook tailor-made for helping local health districts respond to COVID-19 equitably.
This Guidebook is a comprehensive resource covering the end-to-end process of planning and executing inclusive and accessible COVID-19 testing events and contact tracing efforts with a health equity lens. The Guidebook includes information on:
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- Understanding Key Populations
- Planning a Testing Event
- Developing Inclusive and Accessible Communications
- Preparing Personnel
- Executing a Testing Event
- Providing Culturally-Tailored Contact Tracing
- Appendix of external resources
Download the Guidebook today and share it with your team!
This Guidebook was created as a joint effort by members of:
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- COVID-19 Unified Command Health Equity Working Group (HEWG)
- Access and Functional Needs Advisory Committee for the Virginia Department of Emergency Management
- Commonwealth of Virginia Equity Leadership Task Force
- Virginia Department of Health (VDH)
- Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM)
