The Hub Report - 04.29.24 Edition

Posting 05.01.24

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth provides an opportunity to shed light on the importance of mental wellbeing and #selfcare. Explore different coping strategies for you to try & how to destigmatize mental health: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/01/observing-mental-health-awareness-month-why-it-matters/ #MHAM2024 #MentalHealthMatters  

Posted 04.24.24

Health disparities show up as higher disease rates, injury or violence that are experienced by certain populations. This National Minority Health Month, learn about the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority communities: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/04/24/national-minority-month-2024/  

This new page on the Comms Hub offers resources for water safety including Safe Swimming and Waterborne Hazards. More to come! 

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Review the materials and use them for your social media and outreach.

VDH offers social media posts + plus post copy for mpox on the following topics: 

• (Updated) Mpox spreads through close contact 

• (Updated) Mpox Symptoms 

• (Updated) If you have mpox 

• (New) If you were exposed to mpox 

• (New) Mpox vaccination 

📌 This can be found in mpox 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

This website from VDH offers numerous resources for waterborne hazards control, including outreach materials, pollution response, and a HAB toolkit. 

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Review the resources and use as needed.

Use these CDC resources to learn how to prevent illnesses caused by harmful algae and cyanobacteria. Resources include fact sheets, posters, graphics, social media toolkit, partner toolkit, and images. 

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Review the resources, print and share, or share on social media.

Use these posters to raise awareness about recreational water illnesses and pool chemical safety among swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, pool operators, and residential pool owners. Laminated posters can be ordered for FREE via CDC Info On Demand. 

🎙️ Many available in both English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Display the posters in highly visible public areas such as in bathroom stalls, shower areas, and diaper-changing stations at pools, hot tubs, and water playgrounds where patrons can easily see and read them before getting into the water.

CDC provides a variety of resources to help you learn more about recreational water illnesses (RWIs), healthy swimming, pool chemical safety, and other water-related disease prevention topics. Materials include brochures, buttons + banners, fact sheets, posters, and a social media library. 

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Review the materials and use them to inform your messaging and outreach.

This brochure from CDC highlights a few easy steps that swimmers can follow to protect themselves, their families, and other swimmers from germs in the water. 

Order for FREE. These brochures can be ordered for free thanks to the generous financial support of the American Chemistry Council. 

🎙️ Available in both English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Print + post in waiting rooms, or distribute to parents, childcare services, + pediatricians. 

This fact sheet from CDC helps swimmers know what to look for to assess the safety of a pool, hot tub, spa, or other place with treated water.

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Share with various groups, including swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, aquatics staff, pool operators, + public health professionals. 

This infographic from CDC reminders swimmers even though pools can be chemically treated, they may still have germs that could cause illness.

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Share with various groups, including swimmers, caregivers of young swimmers, aquatics staff, pool operators, + public health professionals. 

These slide carousel social media graphics can be used as a unit or individually. They include general information about the mpox vaccine, a reminder to get both doses, and where the vaccine can be administered. 

🎙️ Available in English

• Mpox Vaccines: What You Need to Know

• Mpox Vaccines: Take Your Shot

• Mpox Vaccines: Double Up

• Mpox Vaccines: Just the Right Spot

🎙️ Available in Spanish

• Mpox Vaccines: What You Need to Know

• Mpox Vaccines: Take Your Shot

• Mpox Vaccines: Double Up

• Mpox Vaccines: Just the Right Spot

📌 This can be found in Mpox

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

💡 Share on social media + newsletters

This flyer from CDC provides information on who should get the mpox vaccine and who shouldn't. It also emphasizes that you do not have to get the vaccine in your forearm.

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Print + post, share online, or send to doctor's offices + community partners

In this at-a-glance view of the Public Health Communication Collaborative’s Plain Language for Public Health guide, you’ll find plain language best practices to use before you start writing, when you’re organizing your content, while you’re writing, and when you’re reviewing and testing your communications. 

📌 This can be found in Communications Resources

💡 Review + use to help advance your skills in plain language for public health communications.

In this video, Dashaun Wesley joins the CDC Foundation to help spread the word about the mpox vaccine and how to keep communities safe. 

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

In this video, Dashaun Wesley joins the CDC Foundation to help spread the word about the mpox vaccine and how to keep communities safe. 

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails