COVID-19

Information on COVID-19:

• Chatham-Kent Public Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Public Health Ontario continually publish updated COVID-19 information, statistics, and resources.
• Telehealth Ontario can assist with non-emergency medical advice.
• Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada highlights the impact of COVID-19 on immigration programs in Canada. A few key links are below:
• Travel restrictions and exemptions
  
• Most in person citizenship events are cancelled
  
• Passport services
  
• Immigration applicants
  

COVID-19 and Settlement Services in Chatham-Kent:

• Chatham-Kent based settlement agency, Adult Language and Learning, has cancelled a number of programs to ensure the health and safety of their staff, clients, and the public. Office and Settlement Services staff are still available to communicate with clients online or by phone, Monday to Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Adult Language and Learning can be reached at 519.354.7424 or by email at: info@adultlanguageandlearning.ca.
  

• College Boreal Chatham-Kent offers a unique service to Newcomers to Canada: Socio-economic Integration Navigation. This multilingual service assists newcomers in creating a customized short and long term plan to ensure a sustainable career that will impact not only first-generation immigrants but subsequent generations as well. As of September 2020, College Boreal will also be offering fast-track English language classes (LINC) with a focus on education and employment. Contact them today by phone at 519.397.1677 or by email at: tristan.fehrenbach@collegeboreal.ca.
  

Multilingual Resources:

Vaccination

• Regarding second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, up to date information and available vaccination clinics can be found on the Chatham-Kent Public Health website.  
  
• Chatham-Kent Public Health has developed 'Facts about COVID-19 Vaccines' video in French and in Low German. 
  
• Chatham-Kent Public Health is endorsing the multilingual COVID-19 Vaccine Bulletin resources: 'What You Need to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines',  'How Did We Get COVID-19 Vaccines So Fast?' ,  'Who Were the COVID-19 Vaccines Tested On?', 'Trusted Answers to Your COVID-19 Vaccine Questions', 'Pfizer/ BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines: Is There a Difference?', 'Why is it OK to mix COVID-19 vaccine brands?' and 'Why can youth aged 12-17 only receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine right now?' to help individuals make an informed decision about the COVID-19 vaccine when it's their turn to receive the vaccination. The resources are available in English, French, and other languages. 

• For Low German immigrants, the below translations are also available:
  
• COVID-19 Vaccine Booking audio recording in Low German
  
• 'What You Need to Know about the COVID-19 Vaccines' poster in Low German and audio recording in Low German
  
• 'How Did We Get COVID-19 Vaccines So Fast?' poster in Low German and audio recording in Low German
  
• 'Who were the COVID-19 vaccines tested on?' poster in Low German and audio recording in Low German
  
• 'Why is it OK to mix COVID-19 vaccine brands?' poster in Low German and audio recording in Low German
  
• 'Why can youth aged 12-17 only receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine right now?' poster in Low German and audio recording in Low German
  

Health Information

• The RIO network portal includes a multilingual health information library. You can select resources in over 60 languages by clicking the red square image at the right side of the page.
• The Public Health Agency of Canada has a number of multi-language awareness resources on COVID-19, including fact sheets on physical distancing, how to reduce the spread of COVID-19, how to self isolate, and more.  
• Refugee 613, together with Ottawa Public Health have developed a series of multilingual videos, explaining where and when to wear masks. Mandatory Mask videos are available in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, Farsi, Hindi, Nepalese, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. 
• Multilingual Mental Health Videos are available on the Ottawa Public Health website.  

Supports and Benefits Available:

• Canada's COVID-19 Economic Response Plan includes support for individuals:

• Employment Insurance (EI) program
• Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB)
• Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit (CRSB)
• Canada Recovery Caregiving Benefit (CRCB)

• allowing mortgage payment deferrals

• Ontario Disability Support Program

COVID-19 and children:

• My Hero is You: How Kids Can Fight COVID-19! is a storybook developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The book is available in more than 100 languages.
• The Chatham-Kent Public Library has online databases that children and parents can access online.
  
• The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has suggestions on how you can talk about COVID-19 with your children with 8 tips to help comfort and protect children from COVID-19.
  

COVID-19: Updates on the law and legal services:

Steps to Justice - Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) is working to give practical answers to the important questions that people are asking about the law relating to COVID-19.

Temporary Foreign Worker Resources

• COVID-19 Resources for International Farm Workers in English, Spanish, Thai.
• The Government of Ontario has released 9-1-1 Fact Sheets to help educate migrant workers on how to access 911 services for ambulance response.
• 'Get the facts: Calling 911 when you need emergency health care' is available in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese, Traditional-Chinese, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese
• 'Get the facts: What to expect when calling 911 for a health emergency' is available in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Simplified-Chinese, Traditional-Chinese, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese
• Instruction for employers
  
• The Government of Canada has developed a COVID-19 guide customized for Temporary Foreign Workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program. COVID-19: A Guide for Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada includes information related to quarantine period, rights and responsibilities, and more. The guide can be accessed in English, French, and Spanish.