WELLNESS RESOURCES
COVID-19

Articles

• VOX: Coronavirus: The dos, don'ts, and rules of social distancing

• THE GUARDIAN: An expert guide to social distancing – and what to do if friends and family aren't onboard

• SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: How to Prevent Loneliness in a Time of Social Distancing

• GOOGLE DOCS: Resources for Wellness, Collective Care, and Anti-Racism

• NDN COLLECTIVE: Decolonizing Community Care In Response To Covid-19

• GOOGLE DOCS (Medford & Somerville area): How to Neighborhood Pod [Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective]

• TEN PERCENT HAPPIER: Coronavirus Sanity Guide (FREE)

• CILFET (Chronic Illness Leadership For Emergent Times): Preparing For and Dealing with COVID-19 Coronavirus (PDF)

• GOOGLE DOC by MARYSE MITCHELL-BRODY: Caring Across Distance, Some Things to Consider Before Movement Gatherings During COVID-19

• POWERLABS: How can organizers adapt to a world with social distancing?

• DORI MIDNIGHT, Poem/invocation: Wash Your Hands

• SUSAN RAFFO BLOG: Coronavirus, climate change and community care

• DR. DIANA INLAK‘ECH: Holistic Support for Immunity & Virus Prevention

• QUARTZ: 15 Ways to Practice Self-Care in the Time of Coronavirus

• CDC's (Center for Disease and Control Prevention) Mental Health & COVID-19

• NATIONAL CENTER ON SAFE, SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Secondary Traumatic Stress and Self-Care Packet (Pilot PDF Document)

• AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: Tips for Consuming News About COVID-19

• NH DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES, Bureau of Infectious Disease Control: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Self-Quarantine Guide

• RUPA MARYMA, MD: List of Personal Things You Can Do to Stay Well in a Time of CoVID19

• AAPIs: Community Care During COVID-19

• CRISSARIS SARNELLI, MD: Preparing For and Dealing with COVID-19 Coronavirus 

• ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN: In the Corona (poetry)

• ALICE WONG: Coronavirus and the Disability Community

• GOOGLE DOCS: The Healing Justice webinar team’s folder of resources on COVID-19 and practices centering people with chronic illnesses and disability

• NEW YORK TIMES - FARHAD MAJOO: Every one is a Socialist in a Pandemic

• PEOPLE’S HUB: Community Care Clinic for Disabled and Chronically ill Movement Folks 

SNAP

SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM:
These are unprecedented times, and it's inspiring to see communities rising to the challenge. However, not everyone has the resources to "shelter in place" especially the millions of people in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Living paycheck to paycheck is hard when millions of businesses around the nation are closing down indefinitely, and hourly workers (including those dependent upon tips) are the hardest hit. In particular, families with kids whose primary meals happen at school are especially vulnerable when those schools shut down. With this in mind, Expensify.org is going to temporarily redirect all of its charitable funds to Expensify.org/hunger. With its ability to reimburse volunteers directly in real-time, Expensify.org is uniquely positioned to help families in need immediately. Until today, this fund was focused on paying off kids' "lunch debts" , but with schools closed around the nation, that isn't the top priority. Instead, we're devoting everything to a new program: matching SNAP grocery purchases up to $50 per family. It works like this:

1. Purchase food as normal with your SNAP card

2. Download Expensify on iOS or Android, for free 

3. Join the Expensify.org/hunger policy 

4. SmartScan the receipt, which will tell us how much you paid and show that it was paid for with an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card

5. Submit it to volunteer@expensify.org

6. Set up your bank account to receive the funds 

7. So long as we have funds available, we will reimburse up to $50 per family (one time), the very next day.

To be clear, we can't commit to reimbursing every single person in need — we have no idea how many people will do this, and unfortunately, we don't have unlimited funds. We also don't know how long this crisis will last and how far our brand new charity's resources will stretch. But we're going to do what we can with the funds donated on behalf of Expensify Cardholders via the Karma Points feature, as well as by the extremely generous donors who have signed up for our Corporate and Personal Karma programs.

This is a truly global crisis, and it is only beginning. We all need to work together to weather the storm, and on behalf of Expensify.org's many generous members, we're eager to help.

David, President of Expensify.org

PS: While you may not personally be on SNAP, please forward this along to anyone based in the US (where the SNAP program operates) you know that may need food assistance — or to any other groups or organizations who might be able to spread the word that help is available. Helping our local communities is what Expensify.org is all about!