CHW Comics are culturally relevant educational resources for people of all ages and cover vaccination and mental health topics related to COVID-19. This toolkit is available for CHWs/Promotores to use in their own communities and are available for download in English and Spanish. Contact El Sol CHW/P Training Center if you or your organization is interested in helping your community and join the fight against COVID-19.
COVID-19 Comic Strips
COVID-19 CHW Comic Booklets
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center is proud to present our NEW COVID-19 CHW Comics, a creative take using popular education to tackle vaccine hesitancy in vulnerable communities.
The Battle of the Millenium
A Play and Comic Book Story:
This community-led production features a hero named Captain Empath who with the help of CHWs/promotores, fights against the COVID-19 virus by educating and motivating community members to protect themselves by getting vaccinated. Click below to download.
Activity Book
Captain Empath needs your help! This activity book features COVID-19 facts, puzzles, mental health activities, and more. It’s fun and educating!
COVID-19 Posters
5 Steps to Fight COVID-19
Time to Heal Tool Kit
This healing tool kit is a guide to help self reflect on mental health and learn how to cope after a traumatic experience, such as living through a pandemic.
Below you can find resources such as a weekly mental health check-in plan, a guide for self-care planning, healing plans, an emotional healing map, support group outlines, real stories, song lyrics, and fact sheets related to mental health.
Tool Kit in Spanish
Coping and Healing with Trauma
Video in English
Video in Spanish
Time to Heal Song
El Sol is excited to share the newly released “Time to Heal” COVID-19 Song and Tool Kit. This project will guide community health workers and promotores to help promote healing in their communities during this pandemic.
COVID-19 Real Stories
El Sol has compiled stories of real victims of COVID-19, and although each story is different, the sense of hope and optimism is the same.
We are excited to share with you the following media for El Sol’s official COVID-19 song.
Media Tool Kit
Education is done in many forms and this media toolkit can be used by CHWs/Promotores as part of their own education strategies within the community. Below you may find the lyrics in Spanish and English, as well as graphics, segmented videos, and radio spots of each topic.
If your interested in downloading the individual radio spots or to get more COVID-19 resources via whatsapp, contact us at media@elsolnec.org
Covid-19 Response
Since the start of the pandemic, we have strongly advocated the importance of being prepared by providing awareness and support to ensure that those who have been heavily impacted by COVID-19 can find relief and recover. The following are ways we are working to slow the spread: