COVID-19 Resources
Tazewell County Public Health COVID-19 Resources for Residents
Tazewell County Health Department has put together a list of local, state and national resources for residents, businesses and students throughout the region. The list includes organizations to turn to for help with food, shelter, clothing, rental or utility assistance, physical or mental health services, transportation assistance, meal delivery, or child care needs due to COVID-19.
Teachers and Parents: Working Together to Make Distance Learning Work
This fact sheet from Mental Health America provides tips to help parents and teachers work together to make sure kids and teens are learning and to monitor their mental health.
Teaching kids hand washing during COVID-19
Information from the American Academy of Pediatrics
The Child Neurology Foundation provides a telehealth tip sheet to help families and children prepare for video or phone appointments and make them as comfortable and successful as possible.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association provides tips to help children with language disorders make social connections while sheltering in place.
COVID-19 tests are available to everyone in the United States, including the uninsured. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides an online tool for finding health centers and pharmacies offering low or no-cost testing in your state.
Check your local health department and local news for additional testing sites in your area.
The Arc’s Virtual Program Library
The Arc’s Virtual Program Library is a free hub full of on-demand activities that people with disabilities, and their families and service providers can do at home.
Topics include arts, community and life skills, health and wellness, virtual clubs, and more. Service providers can also find and share resources to facilitate or deliver live, remote programming for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The Arc@School Special Education Initiative
Through The Arc@School initiative, The Arc provides training and resources to help families and others navigate the special education system.
Arc@School offers information on the supports, services and rights for students with disabilities. It also includes information on advocating for students with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a nationwide directory of special education advocacy resources.
Arc@School materials are also available in Spanish.
National center dedicated to improving health care insurance and financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN).
The Center for Families Resource Library at St Louis Children’s Hospital
COVID-19 information and resources for families.