8/5/2020 NCDHHS COVID-19 Response Updates

The following message is forwarded from NCDHHS:

 

Hello Community Partners,

Thank you for continuing to share these emails containing valuable state information on NC’s COVID-19 response with your stakeholder listservs and other contacts. Please find important information and tools below from new updates this week.

As always, make use of the COVID-19 Prevent and Protect Media Toolkit: full of social media posts and images, infographics, customizable flyers, and more –  updated often, and all materials are available in English and Spanish.

Read more below and please share!

Wear A Mask,

Rebecca

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REQUESTS FOR APPLICATIONS updated on the Qualified Vendors Supporting COVID-19 Response page

• Community Engagement Grants
• NCDHHS issued a Request for Applications for community engagement grants to organizations to assist our efforts in prevention and controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the African American community.
• North Carolina continues to see a sustained increase in its confirmed cases of COVID-19 among the general population, and a disproportionately high percentage of cases statewide are among historically marginalized populations. The African American Community Engagement grants will be used to fund organizations to build awareness and support for DHHS prevention, testing, contact tracing, and isolation supports initiatives in regions of the state disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
• Applications are due by August 14. More information can be found here.
• COVID-19 Support Service Program
• NCDHHS is seeking regional partner organizations to administer an innovative new program to support individuals in targeted counties who need supports like food and transportation to successfully quarantine or isolate due to COVID-19.
• In the Isolation Supports program, people in target counties who are directed to quarantine or isolate due to COVID-19 may apply to receive one or more of five social supports to help them do so: nutrition assistance such as home-delivered meals or groceries; a relief payment to offset temporary loss of income or ability to look for work; transportation; medication delivery; and COVID-related supplies such as a mask or cleaning supplies.
• DHHS is releasing this RFA in order to select regional partners who will administer the program in their area, and is prioritizing areas of the state with high per capita COVID-19 case rates for this program, with final target counties selected based on the applications received. This program is temporary and is expected to run until late 2020.
• Applications are due by August 7. Download the Request for Applications.

PRESS RELEASES since the last update include:

• COVID-19 Hospitalization Data Correction
• NCDHHS COVID-19 Community Testing Events Continue; No Cost for Testing
• (Governor): DHHS Releases Request for Applications for Innovative COVID-19 Support Service Program
• NCDHHS Announces Annual Participation in USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program 

NEW social media images available to promote the “SCOOP” on mental health

• Images for FB and twitter can be found on the Social Media toolkit page

30 NEW additions to the community testing events page (6 new CHAMP events)

• Note: Due to the tropical storm, some events may experience changes to hours or cancellations. Please check this website for up-to-date information.

UPDATED guidance since the last update include:

• Antigen Guidance was updated (Health Care, Providers)
• NEW in Schools Guidance - NCDHHS Memorandum on Cloth Face Covering Distribution for K-12 Students, Teachers and Staff - Private Schools
• NCDHHS FAQs on Cloth Coverings (Spanish) and Requirements for the Use of Face Coverings and Masks (Spanish)  
• COVID-19 Support Services Program fact sheet was added to the assistance page and the individuals and families page.

UPDATED reports since the last update include:

• Patients Presumed to be Recovered report updated
• Ongoing Outbreaks in Congregate Living Settings and Schools Clusters reports were updated
• CLI Surveillance report updated

Rebecca Planchard, MPP

Senior Early Childhood Policy Advisor

Office of the Secretary

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services