STOP COVID-19 CA:
Share, Trust, Organize, Partner: The COVID-19 California Alliance
Project Aims:
The CEAL research teams focus on COVID-19 awareness and education research, especially among African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, and American Indians — populations that account for over half of all reported cases in the United States. The Specific Aims are to:
Use principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to engage African American/Black, Latinx, and Native American communities in COVID-19 related research.
Gather information on cultural and structural such as institutionalized racism factors that influence COVID-19 testing and vaccination in vulnerable populations in inland southern California.
Engage grassroots and grasstops community members, academics, and students in project activity to build capacity to partner in COVID-19 related research.
Mini documentary on COVID-19:
What are we doing now?
The STOP COVID-19 CA Latinx research team has continually worked with communities of the Eastern Coachella Valley to gather information and provide COVID-19 resources such as testing sites, infographics, and vaccine information. The team has spent the last few months creating COVID-19 toolkits, or informational resources to discourage COVID-19 hesitancy within communities of the Eastern Coachella Valley.
During the earlier months of the STOP COVID-19 CA project, our team gathered information on factors shaping COVID-19 testing and vaccination hesitancy in vulnerable communities. Our findings were based on focus groups of 32 individuals.
Take a look at a project report of our qualitative key findings and reccomendations.
“Aunque muchas personas que he conocido han estado enfermas, no quieren ir [al hospital]. No quieren ir por el mismo miedo—miedo a la inmigración, a ser deportados.”
