The COVID-19 Equity Project is a unique-community based coalition approach to COVID-19 testing by supporting patients through prevention education, contact tracing for positive patients and other social supports through their recovery process. Through the COVID-19 Equity Project, Reading and Beyond has collaborated with Fresno Building Healthy Communities, Jakara Movement, Cultiva La Salud, Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM), and Fresno State Central Valley Health Policy Institute (CVHPI). Together in a joint effort, we are the Immigrant Refugee Coalition working to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Fresno County and ensure that our community can access the resources they need to keep themselves and their family safe.
The goal of the program is to reach the underserved, hard to reach communities of immigrant and refugees to assist with health education, PPE distribution, provide easy access to testing and vaccines, identify and help people who have been exposed to COVID-19 to get tested and access resources.
