The Hub Report - 05.24.24 Edition

05.15.24

#Trauma can impact people physically, emotionally, and mentally. This #TraumaAwarenessMonth, learn how firearm injuries impact Virginians on a daily basis. Read more: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/15/preventing-injuries-can-prevent-trauma/ 

Blog Link: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/15/preventing-injuries-can-prevent-trauma/ 

05.17.24

This coming Sunday is #NationalHepatitisTestingDay! Let’s raise awareness around hepatitis B and C and encourage everyone to learn their status. Encourage testing TODAY and beyond! Read more: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/17/hepatitis-awareness-month-2024/ #HepAware2024 #HepatitisAwarenessMonth 

Blog Link: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/17/hepatitis-awareness-month-2024/ 

05.22.24

Dive into safety this Healthy and Safe Swimming Week! Join us in raising awareness about drowning prevention and water safety. Learn these essential tips and many more at https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/22/2024-healthy-and-safe-swimming-week/ #healthyswimming 

Blog Link: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/blog/2024/05/22/2024-healthy-and-safe-swimming-week/ 

This fact sheet designed for dairy farmers include essential information about H5N1, including how to protect yourself, what symptoms to look out for, what to do if you have symptoms, and what to do if your cattle are sick.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish 

📌 This can be found in Animal Health

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

This printable conversation starter for patients, families and caregivers provides answers to frequently asked questions about naloxone as well as additional resources.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Opioid + Fentanyl 

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

This printable conversation starter for families and caregivers provides information about how and when to use naloxone for an opioid overdose.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Opioid + Fentanyl 

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

This toolkit includes resources to reach healthcare professionals, individuals planning to have a baby, and all people capable of becoming pregnant. The following resources are included:

• Graphics

• Videos

• Sample messages

Use these #PowerToPrevent materials to help raise awareness about the importance of folic acid. Download the graphics and videos, and copy the sample messages to post on your various platforms.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Maternal + Child Health

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

These social media messages for X/Twitter, Facebook and Instagram can help amplify sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention messages during STI Awareness Week and beyond. Use messages that speak to your audiences and goals. The toolkit includes graphics, post copy, gifs, and badges.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in STIs.

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

This poster from CDC is designed for aquatics professionals to post in places where pool chemicals are being used. It includes information about what to do before you use pool chemicals, who should use them, and how to use them safely.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Print + post wherever pool chemicals are being used.

This poster from CDC is designed for aquatics professionals to post in places where pool chemicals are being stored. It includes information about what to do before you store pool chemicals, how to store them safely, and how to dispose of them.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Print + post wherever pool chemicals are being stored.

This poster from CDC encourages caregivers to keep their kids healthy when they are playing in the water. It reminds them that germs can survive for days, even in well-maintained pools.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Print + post or share in newsletters or emails.

This poster from CDC provides tips on how to stay healthy at splash pads. Information includes tips the "know before you go" and what to do (and not do) when you're there.

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Water Safety

💡 Print + post or share in newsletters or emails.

This brief animated video describes visually what is meant when officials tell people to "shelter in place" in a radiation emergency. In a large-scale radiation emergency, the immediate and key protective action is to "Get Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned for Information" and the video describes what is a safe shelter. The video also explains how this may be different from "stay at home" guidance for other emergencies. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Radiological Events

💡 Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

To protect yourself in a radiation emergency, you should Go Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned. This animated infographic shows you where to shelter in a radiation emergency, and how to take these important protective steps. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Radiological Events

💡 Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

This animation shows how potassium iodide (KI) can protect the thyroid from radioactive iodine (I-131) when used as directed in some radiation emergencies. It also describes the limitations of KI and its possible side effects. Do not take KI unless directed by a healthcare provider, or public health or emergency response official. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Radiological Events

💡 Share in the event of an emergency or as preparation when there is a radiological threat.

CDC's Life is Better with Clean Hands campaign was designed to motivate adults to make clean hands part of their daily lives. The campaign resources were designed to help raise awareness about the importance of handwashing at key times in both homes and public settings, such as before cooking or after using the bathroom. Download and share them to help spread the word and encourage handwashing within your community.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

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

This infographic from CDC stressed that heat-related deaths are preventable and provides easy-to-read information on about what extreme heat is, who is affected, where it occurs, and how to avoid it. 

🎙️ Available in English, Vietnamese + Chinese

📌 This can be found in Severe Weather 

💡 Print + post or share online

Share these videos from CDC to increase awareness of measles symptoms, how easily it spreads, the potential health problems it can cause, and vaccine recommendations.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Measles

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

This toolkit from CDC provides communications resources that can be downloaded or printed. The sample social media messages can be used on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Also included are print materials, webinars, testimonials, and additional resources.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Household Safety

💡 Download, print, and post or share in newsletters, emails, and with community partners.

This general respiratory fact sheet is designed for businesses and organizations to help them maintain a healthy facility and prevent respiratory illness. 

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

📌 This can be found in Respiratory Health 

💡 Print + share or send to businesses, organizations + community partners

This comprehensive resource from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security lays out a phased approach to preventing the spread of misinformation:

✔️ Prework: Actions to take before rumors arise 

✔️ Step 1: Decide whether to address the rumor

✔️ Step 2: Take action to address misinformation

✔️ Step 3: Evaluate anti-misinformation messages

And it features lots of great stuff: a checklist that breaks down all the key phases and strategies, a message development guide, a truth sandwich worksheet. 

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Communications Resources

💡 Bookmark + review to inform your communications

This identification chart from VDH has images and sizes of various ticks for easy identification. It also includes information on how to "remove, save and send" your ticks and for the citizen tick survey.

📌 This can be found in Ticks

🎙️ Available in English + Spanish

💡 Print and distribute

The NCSH Mpox Vaccine: Promotion Materials Toolkit includes promotional materials (digital ads, social media captions, flyers, postcards, and palm cards) that can be used and/or adapted for print and digital spaces. Open space is included within many of the designs to allow you to co-brand, if desired.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

Tools included in the toolkit include templates for press releases and blog posts, talking points, and a step-by-step planning guide for press events.

The themes and messages in the creative assets were directly informed by focus group participants’ feedback on messages and on how they were making their own vaccine decisions. Key messages in these materials include:

✔️ Mpox is still around.

✔️ The vaccine is safe and effective.

✔️ Two doses of the vaccine offer the most protection.

✔️ Being fully vaccinated is a good way to protect yourself, the people you care about, and your lifestyle.

All QR codes lead to the CDC’s Mpox Vaccine Locator.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Share on social media, in newsletters, + emails

This toolkit is a comprehensive set of practical tools and resources designed to support country-level risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) practitioners, decision-makers, and partners to plan and implement readiness and response activities for mpox.

🎙️ Available in English

📌 This can be found in Mpox

💡 Review the materials to inform your communications and responses.