Everyone Age 12 and Older is Now Eligible for the COVID-19 Vaccine!
Yesterday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) endorsed the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for everyone aged 12 and up. This announcement expands vaccination to 17 million additional adolescents throughout the country and is another important milestone in the effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic.
Providing COVID-19 vaccinations is part of the housing and health partnership that HUD Secretary Fudge and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Becerra announced last week. This federal partnership provides a clear opportunity to establish or further expand contacts with local community health centers to improve vaccine confidence and access in your community.
You can read their joint letter and check out the fact sheet to see how HUD is supporting this effort. We welcome your questions and comments at
PIH-COVID@hud.gov.
Share Your Vaccine Events and Join the HUD/HHS COVID-19 Challenge
Looking for ways to leverage HUD and HHS's partnership for greater COVID-19 vaccine equity in your community? With summer just around the corner, now is the perfect time to start planning a COVID-19 vaccine confidence or access event!
We welcome hearing about your great local housing/health partnership efforts to serve residents and help put this pandemic behind us. Please let us know what you're doing and how we can better support you:
To support your efforts, HUD invites you to a special HUD/HHS launch webinar next Wednesday, May 19 at 2 pm ET, which you can register for here:
FREE Training: Build Vaccine Confidence in Your Community
We've heard from you that the primary vaccine challenge facing many communities is vaccine confidence. COVID-19 vaccines are new, and it's normal for people to have questions about them. Your everyday conversations about vaccines can play a major role in building trust within your communities.
Whether engaging with faith-based leaders, community-based organizations, or local institutions like restaurants and barbershops, you can help share information that builds confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine.
To support your efforts, the CDC and HUD are offering YOU—community leaders, residents, service coordinators, local partners, program administrators, and more—a limited-time opportunity to attend a FREE 2-hour Vaccine Confidence Training:
By signing up to be part of our first pathfinder cohort, you will learn how to:
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Listen to questions with empathy
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Ask open-ended questions to explore concerns
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Share trusted information
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Help find reasons to get vaccinated
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Help make vaccination happen
All you need is a device with video and audio capabilities and fast internet to join!
Discover Vaccine Partnership Opportunities Near You
 HUD has produced an interactive mapping tool to support your COVID-19 vaccination efforts with Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs).
What can you do with this new mapping tool?
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Locate the FQHCs in and near your community
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Identify Public Housing and Multifamily properties within FQHC service areas
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Focus on priority areas with 20% of HUD-assisted residents 8+ miles away
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Leverage HUD place-based programs to better connect with FQHCs
Looking to partner with a non-FQHC vaccine provider? Check out Vaccines.gov and vacunas.gov, featuring 50,000 vaccination sites across the country, including primary care physician, federal pharmacy partners, state sites, and FEMA sites. Locations are updated daily.
Join our May COVID-19 Webinars
 You are invited to join our upcoming COVID-19 webinars, focusing on COVID-19 Tools and Resources and Community Health Workers (CHWs).
Please note: Pre-registration is required to attend.
COVID-19 Vaccine Challenge: Tools and Resources
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | 2:00 – 3:30 pm (ET)
Building on the joint HUD-HHS Partnership, presenters will highlight ways you can further your COVID-19 vaccination effort, including mapping tools, transportation opportunities, and examples of successful COVID-19 vaccination partnerships.
The Missing Link: Community Health Workers
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 | 2:00 – 3:30 pm (ET)
Looking for trusted messengers in your community? They've been there all along! Resident champions bridge the gap between health and housing: see how Community Health Workers can boost your vaccine efforts!
Looking for past Bulletins? They're just a click away:
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