The Rockefeller Foundation. June 18, 2020.
Six new test sites, contact tracing, and support to quarantining families will be expanded in partnership with Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
Wraparound services include distributing hygiene kits to more than 5,000 households and building 30 transitional shelters for elders.
Today, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), the emergency relief nonprofit organization co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee, and The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new initiative to expand free Covid-19 testing, contact tracing and wraparound services with the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe. In addition, CORE is partnering with Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health (JHCAIH), in consultation with Navajo and Apache Tribal governments, to also provide case management and health and nutrition services, alongside support for families to safely quarantine across the tribal lands. CORE will also provide critical wraparound services for the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache, including distributing hygiene kits to 5,000 households and building 30 transitional disaster risk reduction shelters for elders. To-date, CORE has provided hygiene kits to more than 1,000 households in the Navajo Nation.