COVID-19 Toolkit

Toolkit Purpose

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Native American communities continue to disproportionately be impacted by COVID-19. This toolkit was designed as a part of the NIH CEAL STOP COVID-19 CA project, aimed to bring awareness around COVID-19 and provide health-related resources in an effort to help Native American communities.

Contents

Click a button below to visit the page!

Our video PSA library consists of short COVID-19 informational films and reasons why Native Americans have chosen to get vaccinated.

Participants include dancers and folks from Pechanga and community members from a RSBCIHI Pechanga Clinic.

MUUT, or owl, is a wise animal and reminds us to reflect about information we read.

Misinformation

Understand

Uncover

Trusted voices

Take a look at some short COVID-19 messages in languages including Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Choctaw.

Visit this page to view infographics explaining important COVID-19 information, including isolation guidelines, testing information, and how the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines work.

Seed Paper Making Event

View our past town halls and events in which we addressed COVID-19 vaccines and discusses COVID-19 in general. Look out for our upcoming events!

Read this page to find answers to questions related to COVID-19 vaccines, symptoms, testing, and general information.

Find a COVID-19 vaccination or testing site and schedule an appointment.

Take a look at External COVID-19 resources and dashboards.

Project Team

  • Project Group Admin

  • Community Engagement Team Members

    • Sherri Salgado — President, Board of Directors for RSBCIHI, Cahuilla Band of Indians

    • Jackie Wisespirit — Community Member, Cahuilla Band of Indians

    • Janine Jacques — Artist, Choctaw Nation

    • Lindsey Segundo — Photographer, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

    • Alfonso Taboada — Undergraduate Student, California Indian Nations College (CINC)

    • Incamu "Raymond" Huaute — Ph.D. Student, University of California, San Diego, (Cahuilla/Chumash)

  • Language Credits

    • Ed C. McEnespy for sharing Luiseño COVID-19 messages

    • Ray (Incamu) Huaute for sharing Cahuilla COVID-19 messages

    • Choctaw Indian Nation Language Department (with special thanks to Janine Jacques) for sharing Choctaw COVID-19 messages

  • Research Assistants/Interns

    • Salil Trehan — UCR Undergraduate Student; Project Manager

    • Usman Hamid — UCR Undergraduate Student; Research Assistant

    • Ross Kolde — UCR Undergraduate Student; Research Assistant

    • Winter Smiley — CSU San Marcos Undergraduate Student; Videographer

    • Elizabeth Celaya — UCR Medical Student; Research Assistant

This COVID-19 Toolkit is supported by the STOP COVID-19 CA project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL). This project is a part of the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities Research in partnership with Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health, Inc. (RSBCIHI).