El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center
How El Sol is Making an Impact During The Covid-19 Pandemic:
When the pandemic began to affect El Sol communities in April 2020, El Sol immediately developed a COVID-19 script and began conducting phone calls to participants from its various programs to start a conversation about the coronavirus and how it affects communities, especially at-risk community members. During every phone call, they ensure everyone has access to information, testing access, and they leverage resources.
They’ve conducted more than 16,000 phone calls since April to provide COVID-19 information and promote preventive measures, and to link families with community resources.
Because community stability and safety are priorities to El Sol, they have continuously supported communities with resources that promote well-being and health through-out the pandemic. To date, Community Health Workers/Promotores have distributed 12,450 food boxes, 50,000+ protective face masks, and 1,360 hygiene kits; and they are not done!
We spoke with Alexander Fajardo, Executive Director of El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center, on why he thinks Family Resource Centers are important during COVID-19 and how individuals and organizations can help their community during COVID-19.
"Resources Centers provide unique holistic support to our most vulnerable families, all in one place. Each of us plays an important part of the solution during this pandemic. Social distance, wearing masks, limiting gatherings, getting tested and providing social support to those in most in need are crucial to stop the spreading of the virus."
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