Announcements

• New Bivalent Booster is now available. Find a your appointment here.
  COVID-19 bivalent booster, which protects against the omicron variants circulating in the City right now. Transmission is increasing. The booster can protect you or someone you love who is at higher risk of serious illness from COVID19 infection.
• If you recently had COVID-19, you may consider delaying your next vaccine dose (primary dose or booster) by 3 months from when your symptoms started or, if you had no symptoms, when you first received a positive test.
• CDC recommends that people ages 5 years and older receive one updated (bivalent) booster if it has been at least 2 months since their last COVID-19 vaccine dose, whether that was:
  • Their final primary series dose, or
  • An original (monovalent) booster
• People who have gotten more than one original (monovalent) booster are also recommended to get an updated (bivalent) booster.

#SIStayStrongStaySafe Campaign

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#SIStayStrongStaySafe 

Staten Island Nonprofits Launch #SIStayStrongStaySafeCampaign to Raise Awareness & Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in the Borough: All Invited to Join in the Efforts 

Here’s how you can be a part of #SIStayStro

• Pledge your support to protect our Staten Island communities.
• Check out the SICOAD Social Media Toolkit: Staten Island Stay Strong, Stay Safe to download and adapt flyers, graphics, text for social media posts and emails to enhance and increase visibility about your activities.
• Promote your engagement and outreach on social media with the hashtag #SIStayStrongStaySafe to amplify our collective efforts.
• The first video by Dr. Donna Seminara on holiday guidance and second video by Dr. Philip Otterbeck on the importance of wearing a mask are up on our social media platforms here:  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
• Sign on as a partner, email program@sinfpa.org.       

With the rates of COVID-19 and hospitalizations increasing, Staten Island Nonprofit and the SI COAD along with our Medical Ecosystem (MES) and several partners are thrilled to launch the “Staten Island: Stay Strong, Stay Safe” Public Messaging Campaign to help build collective engagement and movement around the importance of maintaining safety guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in our borough.

We realize the continuing challenges our communities and neighbors, businesses and organizations face. That’s why it’s more important than ever that we work together to keep each other and our communities safe and strong to handle what may come our way. 

The #SIStayStrongStaySafe campaign aims to reach all corners of our borough — nonprofits, businesses, partners, clients and families, staff and leadership, community members and friends to make this powerful commitment. Together, we can keep Staten Island in good health and help our fellow Staten Islanders to live, work, learn, and play in confidence.

#SIStayStrongStaySafe Campaign Objectives:

• To work together to keep each other and our communities safe and strong to handle what may come our way.
• To build collective engagement as a community and decrease the spread of COVID-19 in our borough.
• To expand outreach and mobilize efforts with unified messages to follow the core public health messaging of wearing a mask, washing your hands, watching your distance to be 6ft apart,  waiting at home if you are feeling sick and getting tested.
• To organize our communities, organizations, partners, and neighbors to commit to following CDC, NYS and NYC Department of Health guidelines.

Toolkits

RESOURCES

Get Vaccinated

• COVID-19 vaccinations and how you can get a shot today.
• COVID-19 vaccines, including their ingredients and how they were developed and proven safe.
• Anyone 12 and older is eligible for in-home vaccination. Sign up online for an in-home vaccination or by calling 877-VAX-4NYC (877-829-4692).

COVID-19 Testing Resources

• H+H COVID-19 Testing Sites

Vaccine Confidence Quick Link Resources

• Key Things to Know about COVID-19 Vaccines (English / Spanish)
• Frequently Asked Questions (English / Spanish)
• How to Talk about COVID-19 Vaccines with Friends and Family (English / Spanish)
• What Fully Vaccinated People Need to Know (English / Spanish)
• FEMA Region 2 webinar recordings: Empowering Discussions about the COVID-19 Vaccine and Addressing Your Concerns About the COVID-19 Vaccine.
• GetVaccineAnswers.org and DeTiDepende.org (Spanish language) to answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines
• “Why is it Important to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19?” flyer in English / Spanish

Vaccine Request Forms

• NYC Mobile Vaccine Resources Request form
• At home vaccine Request form

Implementing Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Policies

• Health Action Alliance
• https://www.healthaction.org/resources
• Quick-Start Guide https://www.healthaction.org/quick-start-guide
• Equity Principles https://madetosave.org/2021/09/01/requirements/
• Sample policy https://www.healthaction.org/resources/vaccines/sample-covid-19-vaccination-policy
• Decision Tool https://www.healthaction.org/reopening-questions
• Communications Guide https://hlthact.org/commsguide
• Access to learning, resources, business coaching, lawyers: Made to Save site https://madetosave.org/vaccines-at-work/

COVID Vaccine Education

• How does Moderna’s Coronavirus vaccine work?
• New York State’s COVID-19 Vaccination Program and Administration Dashboard
• Groups eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine
• Covid 19 Vaccine Eligibility Flyer
• ‘Am I Eligible?’ App and Website
• Guidance for When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated
• Possible Side Effects After Getting a COVID-19 Vaccine
• Neighborhood COVID Vaccine Data Profiles
• CDC Report on COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Adolescents Aged 12–17 Years
• Vaccine-specific PSA from the COH: is available on TV and streaming platforms (available in 10 other languages on NYCHealthy youtube page)
• COVID-19 Vaccines for Children and Teens

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information + Tips for Organizations & Communities

The Nonprofit Staten Island and our Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) coalition have been actively following the updates about Coronavirus and its impact on our communities to provide our frontline healthcare, social service and community-based organizations the information and resources they need.

SI COAD & MES Activated in COVID-19 Response & Outreach 

The Staten Island COAD & its Medical Ecosystem (MES) subcommittee have been activated in the COVID-19 response on Staten Island, acting as an emergency operations center working in partnership with the Staten Island Borough President’s Office, local elected officials, healthcare organizations, social service providers and response agencies.

SI COAD & MES Activated in COVID-19 Response & Outreach 

The Staten Island COAD & its Medical Ecosystem (MES) subcommittee have been activated in the COVID-19 response on Staten Island, acting as an emergency operations center working in partnership with the Staten Island Borough President’s Office, local elected officials, healthcare organizations, social service providers and response agencies: 

• An ICS taskforce comprising representatives from both Island hospitals Richmond University Medical Center and Northwell/Staten Island University Hospital (chief medical officers and emergency preparedness staff), the medical society/primary care physisicans, the 11 Island’s skilled nursing facilities, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and the office of the Borough President, meets daily to discuss challenges and response and to advocate on behalf of Staten Island to the city and state.
• Via the MES providing communications, resources and addressing needs around supplies, staffing and surge space, patient flow, and care protocols.
• Staten Island Nonprofit/COAD sharing guidance on mandates, resources, funding, and relief opportunities for nonprofits.
• Steering committee comprised of representatives of the Staten Island Nonprofit Board, MES, community-based organizations and SI Long Term Recovery Organization meets weekly to share information, needs, observations, and brainstorm action plans to serve the needs of our local nonprofits.  Have been partnering on assessment, outreach and response.
• In partnership with Office of the BP, secured donations of supplies and launched fundraising campaign to purchase supplies for frontline providers.  Many thanks to The Staten Island Foundation for their support of our fundraising efforts with an emergency response grant. 
• Advocacy & Partnerships with NYC DOHMH New York City Health Care Coalition (NYCHCC) / SI Borough Coalition Lead (funding via NYC DOHMH Hospital Readiness & Healthcare Coalitions/ASPR);  NYCEM Community Preparedness Council; NYC DOHMH Community Resilience Planning Committee; NYC DOHMH Emergency Partner Engagement Coalition (EPEC); NYC Voluntary Organizations in Disaster (VOAD)
• Citywide Coalition of COADs/Emergency Networks; Nonprofit New York; Human Services Council of New York; and others
• Communicate through Listservs, EverBridge Alert System (NYCEM partnership), Facebook page, Staten Island Nonprofit Newsletter.

Reopening Resources

*Note: If you cannot reopen safely, taking into account all relevant safety, hygiene, cleaning, legal etc. guidelines, don’t open yet.