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| Ready Rosie: Healthy at Home: A Toolkit for Supporting Families Impacted by COVID-19 |
Support for parents/caretakers |
| Child Mind Institute: Supporting Families During COVID-19 |
We know parents are struggling to balance work, child care and self-care while keeping worries - both your children's and your own - under control. You don't have to do it alone. |
| UNICEF: Greater support needed for working families as COVID-19 takes hold - UNICEF and ILO |
Greater support needed for working families as COVID-19 takes hold - UNICEF and ILO |
| CDC: Frequently Asked Questions |
CDC FAQs for families |
| Forbes: 5 Reasons Why You Might Not Get A COVID-19 Stimulus Payment |
5 Things to know about the COVID-19 Stimulus Payments |
| CLASP: COVID-19 and State Child Care Assistance Programs: Immediate Considerations for State CCDF lead Agencies | This fact sheet describes key provisions, considerations, and action steps for how state child care agencies can make the most of resources provided through the Act. Suggests that states should immediately leverage the provisions in the bill to stabilize child care providers, establish emergency child care for children of essential workers, and provide supports for families and child care providers. These efforts are especially critical for providers—who are often low income themselves, and disproportionately women of color—and for families of color who may be more likely to be facing financial instability due to employment and wage inequities. |
| KFF: Communities of Color at Higher Risk for Health and Economic Challenges due to COVID-19 |
The COVID-19 outbreak presents potential health and financial challenges for families, which may disproportionately affect communities of color and compound underlying health and economic disparities. |
| TIME: For Millions of People, Relief From the COVID-19 Stimulus Package Remains Out of Reach |
Many workers say that these lifelines often are impossible to access and, in some cases, won’t cover their expenses. Low-income workers who already had been living paycheck to paycheck say their bills are past due and they aren’t getting the financial help they need, which is putting them deeper into debt and in some cases, at risk of losing homes and cars. As the economic crisis goes on, they worry that their finances will be irretrievably altered by this pandemic, despite the government relief. |
| Business Insider: Nurses say they won't get paid time off if they catch coronavirus - and it could force them to choose between paying bills or heading to work while sick | The Senate recently passed an emergency bill that guaranteed paid sick leave for workers impacted by the coronavirus after briefly stalling the legislation as of March 16, at least temporarily ending the US' status as one of the only industrial countries that does not guarantee paid leave for employees. |