Free Multilingual Legal Services for Low-Income residents and Seniors: The Northwest Justice Project (NJP) is a not-for-profit statewide organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income people throughout the state of Washington. Each year, NJP assists thousands of people in need of critical legal assistance. On their website, they have put together a multi-lingual resource listing for COVID-19 relevant legal information ranging from Protection Orders and Evictions to avoiding Coronavirus Scams. Please share with those in your communities who may need legal assistance or advice: https://www.washingtonlawhelp.org/issues/health/coronavirus-covid-19
Supports for Small Businesses: King County’s COVID-19 Small Business task force has a new website with lots of great resources and information for small businesses. For more information, or if you have specific questions or need technical assistance, please email business.outreach@kingcounty.gov.
WHO Q&A on COVID-19: The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a frequently updated Q&A about COVID-19 with information and answers to frequently asked questions. Please see https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses for more information.
UW Medicine “Just One Friend” data visualization: Epidemiologists at UW Medicine created a data visualization page that outline the risk of widespread transmission that could happen if we all visited “just one friend”. Public Health Seattle/King County featured their work in the most recent Public Health Insider blog post titled, “Not Seeing Friends and Family is Hard but it’s Worth it”.
New In-Language Resources Available: Public Health Seattle King County’s COVID-19 webpage now has COVID-19 information available in 30 languages. Recent languages that have been made available are: Burmese, Fijian, Polish, Romanian, and Tongan. The King County Office of Equity and Social Justice released their “Community Members and Small Business Resource Guide” in Amharic, Arabic, Spanish, Oromo, Vietnamese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Somali, and Tigrinya as well.
Community Spotlight: Mother Africa supporting COVID-19 outreach in South King County: Mother Africa serve Africa refugees and immigrants, Middle Eastern and Afghan communities and provides in-language support in the following languages: Arabic, Swahili, French, Dari, Farsi, Somali and Mai Mai. Please visit www.motherafrica.org for more information.