This continuously updated set of resources, which include guidance, tool kits, and reports, provides information for supportive housing and homeless housing providers, in light of CDC guidelines for social distancing and quarantine against community spread of COVID-19. This compendium also offers fact sheets on how homeless individuals and families can navigate and access services.

This U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service webpage describes the changes that the USDA has made to allow states to continue providing meals for students during school closures. Useful resources on the webpage include an interactive map that helps families identify locations of nearby meal sites, as well as hours of operation and contact information. The webpage also features the USDA National Hunger Hotline, a helpful resource for people seeking food assistance.

This blogpost offers conceptual strategies for helping parents to provide stability, safety, and security to children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The blogpost identifies the types of families most at risk of losing supports, and the services that these low-income families need for economic stability and self-sufficiency, in light of job losses and unemployment that are the economic cost of the pandemic.

This continuously updated set of resources from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration includes upcoming and recorded webinars to address training and technical assistance available for substance abuse counselors and mental health professionals for supportive practice during the current COVID-19 crisis. Resources are offered from the Mental Health Technology Transfer Centers, the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers, the Prevention Technology Transfer Centers, the Center of Excellence for Protected Health Information, and the Providers Clinical Support System.

The continuously updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website offers guidelines on how to protect yourself against COVID-19, its symptoms, and what to do if you are sick. The website features information on CDC responses and ways to limit exposure to COVID-19 in public and at home.

This blogpost illustrates ways that service providers and states are implementing remote services in light of COVID-19, including virtual home visits, which mirrors approaches used in telemedicine and telecounseling. Options that are discussed include video calls, texting and messaging apps, and online content for parent engagement. The blogpost also notes the adjustments and limitations that families and home visitors might have to implement these virtual options.

The Community Action Partnership has identified several links to guidance and resources for minimizing coronavirus risks within the national Community Action network. Guidance on managing coronavirus risks is offered by the Community Action Program Legal Services (CAPLAW). There are also guidance letters on the Community Services Block Grant program and Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, as well as resources on paid leave, Head Start, weatherization programs, and other areas that address the needs of lower-income persons and communities.

This U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service webpage summarizes actions the USDA has taken to ease program operations and protect the health of USDA nutrition program participants in response to COVID-19. Guidance and waiver information granting states flexibility and contingencies to best serve participants are provided for the 15 USDA nutrition programs, including WIC and SNAP.

The Children’s Bureau at the Administration for Children and Families has shared links to directly related resources on COVID-19 for child welfare workers and the clients they serve. Information available includes guidance on procurement for personal protective equipment, casework visit requirements during COVID-19 response, conducting effective remote hearings in child welfare cases and court improvement programs to assist dependency courts, and postponement of Title IV-E Foster Care Eligibility reviews.

This strategy brief discusses how safety culture can assist child protection agencies in shifting their organizational culture to one characterized by open staff conversation; in this environment, staff feedback is valued and important in addressing their organizations’ concerns. One way to strengthen safety culture is through effective mindful organizing, described not only as staff’s understanding of their work, but also of their colleagues’ capabilities, which according to studies, results in reduced staff turnover and positive outcomes for children and their families. The brief highlights mindful organizing strategies used by child protection agency staff in Tennessee, including huddles and debriefs.