Talking About the COVID Vaccine in Your Community

In this 2-part virtual series Talking About the COVID Vaccine in Your Community, participants will learn strategies to share COVID-19 vaccine information and resources in their communities.

Training recordings and resources are available below.

Session 1:

You will learn about:

• Health literacy background 
• Applying health literacy principles to community outreach
• Strategies for better communication
• Workshop and lesson plan ideas

Watch Session 1 Recording: https://youtu.be/EN1RlM20lRo

Session 2:

You will learn about:

• Establishing and leveraging community partnerships
• LARA communication strategy – activity and discussion to practice keeping conversations productive and positive
• COVID vaccine resources 

Watch Session 2 Recording: https://youtu.be/3GfcFPtgnTk

Training Resources

1. COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Train the Trainer PowerPoint (download)

2. Myths and Facts about the vaccine: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html#print

3. CDC Vaccine Outreach Slides: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/vaccines/toolkits/slide-deck_EW-Toolkit_508.pptx

4. Scenario based activity from Kalamazoo Literacy Council (download)

5. Wisconsin Literacy Lesson Plan Template (download)

6. Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lessons:

• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 1 - Lesson Plan
• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 1 - Materials
• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 2 - Lesson Plan
• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 2 - Materials
• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 3 - Lesson Plan
• Literacy Network COVID-19 Vaccine Mini Lesson 3 - Materials

7. Video interview script in English and Spanish

8. Rural focused COVID vaccination resources.

9. Letter to Vaccination Sites (download).

10. COVID-19 Outreach Survey (for Wisconsin Literacy members only)
Please complete with each community member (electronic and printed surveys are the same questions).

• Electronic: 
  • English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/STJ9PKM
  • Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XF53Q3W 
  • Mandarin: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X3J6SFZ 
  • Hmong: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X3P7FNT 
  • Swahili: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XGKZPRC 
  • Burmese: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XGC3P8Z 
• Printed Surveys:
  • English (PDF)
  • Arabic (PDF)
  • Burmese (PDF)
  • Hmong (PDF)
  • Karen (PDF)
  • Mandarin (PDF)
  • Spanish (PDF)
  • Swahili (PDF)