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Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Convocation
June 24, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm UTC+4
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to this week’s June 24 Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Convocation. Emerging new strategies for transitioning the U.S. out of COVID-19 pandemic conditions to vastly safer COVID endemic and improved syndemic conditions with be discussed. Come share your hopes, concerns, plans, and committed actions to avoid another year of deadly holidays in your communities, counties, states, and in our nation as a whole where the majority of Americans remain unvaccinated and at high risk of contracting even more dangerous COVID-19 variants surrounding us in the months ahead.
Please use the following Zoom Access information to join the June 24 convocation discussions:
Mike McDonald is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Please join us to discuss these issues and to share elements of your progress:
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, June 24, 2021
Zoom onboarding and networking during these RAC Convenings will start at 10:30 AM ET.
June 24 RAC Meeting Zoom Access
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, June 24, 2021
Zoom onboarding and networking during these RAC Convenings will start at 10:30 AM ET.
June 24 RAC Meeting Zoom Access
Mike McDonald is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: June 24 Resilient American Communities (RAC) Convocation
Time: Jun 24, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Meeting ID: 894 4229 0378
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For those ready to engage in more indepth RAC work, please inquire about RAC site developments, workgroups and RAC rapid response teams at:
http://resilientamericancommunities.org
A new calendar of RAC events and training is now available at the above website.
RAC Workgroups focus on the national, regional, state, and bioregional rollout of RAC research, plans, policies, procedures, and standards of practice, including but not limited to the follow areas:
- Communities, Regions, States, Territorial, Tribal Networking (CRSTTN) Initiatives
- Strategic Planning to Operations
- Vaccination Program
- RAC Systems Rapid Replication and Scaling
- Guidance and Training for New RAC Site Development
- Content Management
- RAC Technical Services
- Data Management
- MPHISE Analytics
- Exposure Notification
- Health System Resilience
- Center of Excellence Development
- RAC Graph and Social Network Analysis; Supernode, Node & Network Linkages
- Serious Games (Simulated Solutions Exercises, Massive Multi-player Games)
- COVID-19 Environmental Testing
- FAC Team Formation and Deployment
- Early Identification and Response in Probable Outbreak Areas and Hot Zones
- Interventions to Create SARS-CoV-2 Cooling and Cold Zones
- Certifying Cooling, Cool, and Cold Zones for Opening up Economic and Social Activities
- FAC Teams for Rapid Response in Urgent Circumstances
- RAC COVID-19 Community Policies
- COVID-19 Mental Health / Psychosocial Environment / Well-being
- Vital Conditions Mapping
- Syndemic Mission Critical Functions Assessment/Gap Resolution
- Syndemic Cascading Effects
- International Health Security
- Rural and Frontier Communities
- SDOH in Vulnerable Communities
- National Framework for SDOH Common Core & Supplemental Datasets
- Interagency
- Management and Governance
RAC workgroups are now meeting regularly to replicate and scale RAC sites and activities across the U.S. Please let us know if you have an interest in the activities of a specific RAC workgroup. RAC workgroup and Centers of Excellence updates will be provided within the June convenings, in case you have an interest in joining RAC workgroup efforts or want to work with Center of Excellence teams to advance your RAC sites or projects.
Focus Agility Convergence (FAC) Teams will focus on rapid response and carrying out improvements to mission critical functions and other RAC objectives, including for example:
- RAC Vaccination Equity Assessment
- RAC Center of Excellence Development
- RAC Site Development
- RAC Site COVID-19 Risk Communication Associated with COVID Super-transmission
- RAC Seasonal and Special Event Risk Communication
- RAC Serious Games (virtual community exercises)
- Emergency RAC Site Development
- COVID Hot Spot Management
- Management of RAC Communities in Extreme Vulnerability or Collapse
- Management of RAC Communities Facing Extreme Events Threatening Their Resilience
In addition to joining us from 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time for the June 10 RAC convening, please hold the following dates and times for upcoming Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative Convocations:
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, July 15, 2021
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time Thursday, July 29, 2021
The RAC Convocations are always scheduled on the second and fourth Thursday of the month.
We look forward to seeing you on June 24, 2021.
For those of you, just learning about the RAC, see an introductory overview attached. Also please join us at:
http://ResilientAmericanCommunities.org/
Mike
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Coordinator
Resilient American Communities RAC) Initiative
Executive Director
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
[email protected]
http://resiliencesystem.org
We look forward to seeing you on June 24, 2021.
For those of you, just learning about the RAC, see an introductory overview attached. Also please join us at:
http://ResilientAmericanCommunities.org/
Mike
Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
Coordinator
Resilient American Communities RAC) Initiative
Executive Director
Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
[email protected]
http://resiliencesystem.org