Racial and Ethnic Disparities and COVID-19
^This presentation is the culmination of a summer’s worth of research into disparities surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Youth Survey:
Mental Health & COVID-19 Series:
Flyers
Ending the Stigma: Mental Health in Immigrant Communities
Vaccination and the New Normal
Ending the Stigma: Normalizing and Coping in Pandemic
Ending the Stigma: Social Anxiety and Vaccine Hesitancy
Ending the Stigma: Dealing and Coping with Depression
Ending the Stigma: Challenges for Students of Color
Political Advocacy
Zoe dedicated her time to all work surrounding MIRCs policy and advocacy priorities. These policy priorities highlight the issues that are impacting the immigrant and refugee communities and work to fix it through sitting on a variety of subcommittees. She tracked all bills for the First regular and special session of the 130th Maine State legislature, as well as tracking the bills that are being carried over into the Second regular and special session. Using this information, Zoe helped work on the MIRC annual report and writes-ups to Amjambo Africa, providing summaries of both state and federal policy updates.
Tracking all bills for the 130th legislative session
Bills that have been signed into law by Governor Mills
Donation Tracking:
Eliana kept track of all donations made to MIRC between June and August, updating our donations spreadsheet regularly throughout the week. She inputted all new donors into our online database and sent out the donor acknowledgment and donation receipt. Eliana updated our donor thank you letter to include MIRC’s most up-to-date projects and missions, specifically our work highlighting the racial disparities made clear by COVID-19 and the vaccine distribution. In addition, it emphasized our culturally sensitive educational work and our support for multiple ECBOs for their social support and equity work.