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Our friends at Sunshine Behavioral Health have put together this thoughtful review of both the mental health challenges present in the black community and the sources of those challenges....
A Randy Rainbow song parody about the necessity of wearing a mask....
Organized in Snohomish County every year for the last five years, the 2020 Step Up Conference is entirely virtual. It’s inexpensive and can is even available for free, if you ask. They’ve created a pretty remarkable learning event for th...
When you look at the coronavirus world, it is entirely shaped by the structure of the before world. All of the racial inequities that were in the before world, they are naturally being reproduced in the coronavirus world because the...
Gil Fronsdal is the founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City California. He has offered a Dharma talk on the topic of how appropriate is it to even consider being peaceful during these times of COVID-19, and how ...
Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether...
The Getty Museum issued a challenge on their social media feeds to “recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home.” The resulting submissions reveal the ingenuity of art lovers stuck at home. View the Tweet...
For hundreds of thousands of years, even the most devoted couples have been uttering some version of that basic romantic principle: ‘I married you for better or for worse, but not for lunch.’ This article by John Tierney and Roy F. Baum...
Referenced in a White House press briefing as the “Chris Murray Model,” The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) ‘s COVID-19 project demand for hospital services and deaths per day in each state. Check...
“How is this night different from all other nights? ” This question, that is part of the Passover ritual dinner, will have a very different answer this year given that we are all living in the shadow of a pandemic. Instead of gathering ...
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Families First Coronavirus Constituent Service Resource Toolkit was published to help you understand all the benefits that are available to you and your community through the Federal...
Today (March 27, 2020) Apple announced had released a new COVID-19 screen tool that it had developed with the White House Coronavirus Task Force , The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and FEMA. The app and website also of...
Some comforting music for these difficult times…...
Like all of us, NewStories is reimagining how to offer our services in these very new times. Our core competencies include: Substantial experience working in post-disaster contexts Knowing how to help communities and organizations develo...
A study published on March 17, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals how long the virus that causes COVID-19 remains detectable on various surfaces and as an aerosol. Scientists discovered the virus is detectable for : up t...
As many of us are in quarantine as a result of illness, exposure, “Shelter in Place” orders, or simply as a means of self protection, few of us actually know the origin of the word. Quarantine “means about 40, in French, and its Latin or...
Having been deeply affected by the AIDS epidemic, Andrew Sullivan offers his perspective on how we’ll be changed, individually and collectively, by the Coronavirus Pandemic. Will this pandemic “merely accelerate some of the worst cultura...
Music is something that actually looks into the inside, that that knows no boundaries, and if we can actually express what is in our insides and show that, then this is the beginning of a deeper understanding of one another. … We’re coll...
Nextstrain is an open-source project to harness the scientific and public health potential of pathogen genome data. They are incorporating nCoV genomes as soon as they are shared and providing analyses and situation reports. Their...
A collection of podcasts and poetry for however you’re processing or experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic....
Stuck at home with your child and not sure what to do with them? Here is a list of great learn and play resources for different ages. Activities for younger kids #playpandemic resource guide complete with meditations for parents Activiti...
If you are wondering about the latest numbers, Johns Hopkins University is compiling data from WHO, CDC, ECDC, NHC and DXY and local media reports to track confirmed Coronavirus cases around the world. Check it out here. ...
If your school is closed and you’re wondering how to keep kids connected, zoom is now offering free accounts for schools. Teachers could teach in a virtual classroom, and kids without computer or internet can call in from a phone to a lo...
A global case tracker index with visualizations https://coronawiki.org/index...
https://covid-at-home.info/ This guide contains general advice that should be applicable in many places. We may add information that is specific to certain countries or regions, but you should keep your eyes open for more specific...
GYANT is offering a COVID-19 Emergency Response Assistant on their website and to hospital systems. Please visit https://gyant.com/covid to screen for symptoms and risk, and keep yourself educated on the most up-to-date information....
This is an awesome guide from MANUELA MOLINA – @MINDHEART.KIDS WWW.MINDHEART.CO Checkout this guide and workbook for families. It can help your kids (and you) understand what’s happening! You’ve probably already figured it out: our kids ...
Across the corners of the internet, you may find speculation about how the coronavirus will lead to an apocalyptic breakdown of civilization. On the opposite end, you will hear assurances that everything’s pretty much going to be fine...
From the Independent, March 13th, Kate Ng As life in Italy grinds to a halt amid a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, one street was filled with song as the community banded their voices together i...
By Lynn Unger What if you thought of itas the Jews consider the Sabbath — the most sacred of times?Cease from travel.Cease from buying and selling.Give up, just for now,on trying to make the worlddifferent than it is.Sing. Pray. Touch o...
This is an amazing letter. Kristin Flyntz was posted on Facebook on March 12th. She speaks of the letter as “imagined.” I know it was channeled. How many of us have heard these voices? When we pause and become still, we can listen to the...
Looking for an alternative to face-to-face events in the time of Coronavirus? People have been experimenting with synchronous online convening for years and the tools continue to improve. Here are some suggestions from Peggy Holman...
Brother Richard is a priest-friar of the Irish branch of the Capuchin Franciscan Order. For over twenty years he has worked to bring the insights of the Christian contemplative tradition to greater public awareness, particularly with ref...
The Juice Media has created this very amusing video that contains both laughs and real information …...
Check out this informative report from McKinsey. It is written from a business perspective and does an excellent job of laying out one set of scenarios for the coming days, weeks and months. Makes transparent part of the bigger picture...
