"COVID-19: How to Be Safe" Online Training for Families

We now have millions of people confined to their homes. They may have heard some basic messages about how to be personally safe, but likely do not have a one-stop-shop for staying safe via good personal hygiene, keeping the home virus free, and also navigating going out in public or caring for sick family members. 

An online training is now available that was put together by the Global Resilience Institute with Northeastern University. Stephen Flynn is the director there and I can vouch for anything he produces as to accuracy and the quality. 

The link to the instruction is here: COVID-19 How to be Safe and Resilient.

I suggest you first share it with family and friends and then make it a resource that you share with your community via electronic communications -- so they get the link.

Dr. Flynn also wrote an introduction (see below) to the training link that can be used to forward the information. He has done all the work for -- you just need to distribute it!

 

Dear______

 

I wanted to let you know that Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute has just launched the short online course that provides life-saving skills for dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak: COVID-19: How to be Safe and Resilient.

The course is on a web platform that allows universal access. The hope is that corporations, companies, and organizations,  universities, colleges, and schools will push this out to their employees and students. With everyone studying online and working online, this seems to be the best way to have a trusted source get this critical information directly to as many as possible with the encouragement that they spend the under one-hour to work their way through the self-navigating, 9 short-modules for the course:

COVID-19: How to be Safe and Resilient

1.  Intro to Being Safe and Resilient
2.  Mastering Washing Your Hands
3.  Avoid Touching Your Face to Reduce Risk
4.  Managing Your Household
5.  Disinfecting Your Surfaces
6.  Properly Using Masks and Gloves
7.  Navigating Public Spaces
8.  Staying Connected with Older Relatives, Neighbors, and Friends
9.  Enhancing Community Resilience by Becoming a COVID-19 Leader

In addition to providing this urgently needed life-saving information for dealing with the rapid spread of COVID-19, the course aims to help to reduce anxiety as well. Ideally it will inspire and empower all who take it to reach out to others to share what they have learned. The final module in the online course is a call-to-action. 

Leveraging all the latent capacity in our civil society will be instrumental to our getting through this. We all  need to pull together at the household, neighborhood, and community levels to help each other out while limited government and health sector resources are directed to those in most need. This is an “All Hands on Deck” moment in our history! 

Best,