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Neighborhood Resilience Project in the New York Times

Posted on October 7, 2020 by kelias1988

The Neighborhood Resilience Project in the New York Times!

The work of the Neighborhood Resilience Project with the Community Health Deputies, around COVID-19 and the Vaccine Registry was highlighted in the New York Times this morning! Read the article here.

The Neighborhood Resilience Project has trained, deployed and are supporting over 100 Community Health Deputies across 15 Medically Under-served Communities in the area. These deputies have accomplished tremendous feats out in the community.

The Community Health Deputies have also been working diligently to register people for the Vaccine Registry in Pittsburgh – as Pittsburgh is a location where the 3rd Phase of Clinical Trails for COVID-19 are being offered. Because of the work of the Community Health Deputies, the diversity of the people registered for the Vaccine Registry has greatly increased.

Please help us share the good work of the ministry.
Sincerely,

Fr. Paul Abernathy
CEO
Neighborhood Resilience Project

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Day of Giving 2020

Posted on May 5, 2020 by kelias1988

On Tuesday, May 5th – we come together to heal, to thank, to help and to give.

The Neighborhood Resilience Project has been working diligently during COVID-19 to serve the community and our neighbors in this time of crisis.

The organization provides hundreds of people with food each week.

The Community Health Deputy program soared – with the organization training, supporting and deploying close to 100 Community Health Deputies across 13 communities. These Community Health Deputies work diligently to use an epidemiological frame work to prevent the spread and support the socio-economic needs and mental health of those in their communities during the crisis.

Hundreds of people who are un-insured have access to telephonic check ups through the Free Health Center and volunteer clinicians.

It is just so fitting that the organization is beginning to re-open and resume even more programming on the same day of #GivingTuesdayNow.

I am so grateful and thankful to those people and organizations that have supported us during this time. I hope you will consider joining them and joining our movement to build Resilient, Healing and Healthy Communities.

Sincerely,

Rev. Paul T. Abernathy
CEO

PS – We are still recruiting 50+ monthly donors in 2020 – Join the 15 who have become monthly donors today!

Donate on May 5, 2020 to Join the Movement

One of the partnerships helping us to distribute food out of our facility.

Our staff also working to take food out to the community.

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We are Combatting COVID-19.

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Neighborhood Resilience

In this time of crisis, the Neighborhood Resilience Project is working to build resilience in our community as we address COVID-19 crisis. Several ways we are working to combat the virus and mitigate the economic impact for people during this time are below:

  1. We have launched a Community Health Deputy Initiative. We are working to establish Community Health Deputies in medically underserved communities across Allegheny County. These deputies have three objectives:
      1. To be trained in the epidemiological frame work to combat the spread of the disease (to include screening for symptoms of and exposure to COVID-19).
      2. To understand and respond to the needs of the people, including but not limited to food and medicine.
      3. To assess and support the mental health of people in this time of crisis.

The organization has trained 118 Community Health Deputies and has 102 that are active across 15 communities in the Pittsburgh region. Through the labors of the Community Health Deputies, much work has been accomplished in these 15 communities as highlighted in the table below. These deputies will enable the organization to quickly reach, connect with and disseminate information to community members and stakeholders to build the task force and begin to address health equity in this area. Consulting with Health Deputies was how the organization began to discern that mental health is a great need within the community.

Packages of food and emergency services distributed – 8,188
Cases of interrupting the transmission of COVID-19 – 564
Activities to support the prevention of future spread of COVID-19 – 5,123
Instances of working to change community norms to promote less spread of COVID-19 – 247 Offerings of therapeutic interactions to community members- 740
  1. We have been performing Telephonic Wellness Checks. These check ups are conducted from one of our staff members or volunteers to community members who are either 60+ or who have serious underlying health issues that place them in the high risk for contracting COVID-19. During these checks, the staff and volunteers are evaluating the following:
    1. Assessing for signs and symptoms of and exposure to COVID-19.
    2. Screening for needs again such as food and medicine.
    3. Checking on the Mental Health of the community member.
  2. We have moved health center operations to Telemedicine. We are continuing to administer health care to hundreds of uninsured patients with our amazing volunteer clinicians and telemedicine. Our patients will therefore still get the care needed for their existing conditions, care for any new presenting illnesses as well as care for other needed supports. The Clinic operations have since moved to a combination of in person visits – following the COVID protocol and telemedicine visits.
  3. Finally, we are providing Food. We have seen a large increase in people needing food. Any canned or non-perishable items are gratefully accepted (Pop Top Cans or Can Openers are always appreciated). The numbers of people coming to get food increases each day.

If you are interested in learning more about supporting one of these initiatives to combat COVID-19 and its economic impact in our community, please contact us at info@neighborhoodresilience.org.

Together we shall overcome!
Sincerely,

Rev. Paul T. Abernathy, CEO

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