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Volume
11, Issue 2 | February 2021
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Greetings!
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Greetings from AAHI to our friends and community
partners! It is hard to believe our County, state, and nation are
now almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic response. AAHI is
still working with our partners to do what we can to connect
community members to reliable information and resources related
to COVID-19. We are still as busy as ever as we re-imagine our
work to fit the "new normal”, while navigating the pandemic
and all its challenges.
During this time, AAHI bid farewell to Perry Chan,
AAHI’s former Program Manager II and Liz Rhee, former Senior
Wellness Coordinator. In addition, we welcomed Tammy Wan, AAHI’s
new Health Education and Communications Coordinator.
Read
through to learn more about our current activities! As always,
remember to stay up to date with AAHI's activities by following
us on Facebook and Twitter!
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Asian
American Townhall on COVID-19 Vaccine
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The Office of Community Partnerships and Asian
American Health Initiative are hosting a virtual Zoom townhall
meeting on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, at 7:00pm.
This virtual townhall will provide the latest
information on the vaccine rollout plan for Montgomery County,
describe the priority order for vaccinations, and give Asian
American residents a forum to get their specific questions
answered directly by public health representatives. Please join
us and the following esteemed speakers for an informative
conversation:
• Gabe Albornoz, County Council Vice
President and Chair of the Health and Human Services
Committee
• Dr. Raymond Crowel, Director of Montgomery
County Department of Health and Human Services
• Dr. Mahesh Ochaney, Community
Physician
• Dr. Mo-Ping Chow, Community Physician
• Jasmine Vinh, Montgomery County Department
of Health and Human Services, Acting Program Manager of Asian
American Health Initiative
• Dr. Hina Mehta, Moderator; Vice Chair of
the Asian American Health Initiative Steering Committee
Please pre-register via Google Form at: https://bit.ly/2LOw2kA. If you have any
questions regarding this event, please contact Mr. Yi Shen, Asian
Liaison for Montgomery County, at Yi.Shen@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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COVID-19
Information Portal and AAHI COVID-19 Resource Guide
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Updated
resources to educate the community about COVID-19
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AAHI has been continually updating the resource
guide of education and service access resources to support Asian
American communities responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19
Vaccine Pre-Registration Hotline and Assistance
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Available in seven different languages: Amharic,
Chinese, English, French, Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese,
Montgomery County’s COVID-19 Information Portal provides current
COVID-19 information and resources.
The site answers common COVID-19 questions, vaccine
rollout information, the latest news on vaccination updates,
data, resources, and more. Follow COVID-19 updates on: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/.
If you live and work in Montgomery County,
individuals in certain priority groups can pre-register for
appointments for County-operated COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
The online pre-registration form is available in seven different
languages: English, Spanish, French, Amharic, Chinese,
Vietnamese, and Korean. To pre-register online, please visit: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/covid19/vaccine/.
Multilingual assistance is available to help you pre-register
online to make an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine. If you
need help with the form, call 240-777-2982. Please note that the
vaccine supply is extremely limited and residents are asked to be
patient as the available supply of the vaccine in Maryland works
to catch up to the demand.
For language support in Chinese, contact our staff
Elsa Lau at 240-777-4517 or Elsa.Lau@montgomerycountymd.gov.
For language support in Korean, contact our
staff Sophia Yoon at 240-773-1105 or Sophia.Yoon@montgomerycountymd.gov.
We would also like to thank the many community-based
organizations who have been so proactive in preregistering
residents for the vaccine.
If you, your community members, or your clients need
access to other resources or services, you can always contact AAHI
to help connect you to the service you need. You can call our
main telephone number at 240-777-4517 or contact info@AAHIinfo.org.
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COVID-19
Resource Guide
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We understand that it is difficult to stay updated
on the all of the different COVID-19 resources, services, and
relief programs. To help streamline this information, AAHI
consistently updates the COVID-19 Resource Guide, which provides a
snapshot summary of different COVID-19 relief efforts and other
relevant programs.
The types of services captured in the COVID-19
Resource Guide include COVID-19 testing, food access,
housing, employment, financial assistance, and more. The purpose
of this guide is to organize information related to all of the
different support services in one place and enable individuals to
easily identify the services most relevant to their needs.
The COVID-19 Resource Guide will be updated
periodically by AAHI as information about services change and new
programs emerge. It has since been updated to include new and
current resources. Be sure to regularly check AAHI's Resource Library (https://aahiinfo.org/aahi-resources/) for
future updated versions, or email AAHI's Resource Coordinator,
Sophia Yoon, at Sophia.Yoon@montgomerycountymd.gov,
to be placed on the email distribution list.
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