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RESOURCES TO EXPAND YOUR SUPPORT

This page will provide practical guides and tools that empower healthcare workers and volunteers to keep making a difference.

As we find additional resources which we believe could benefit you, we will post those here. Please be sure to check back frequently as we build out this resources list.

If you have ideas to add to this page please reach out to use with your suggestions by visiting our Contact Us page.

Healthcare Heroes Resources

Wellbeing First

Those on the front lines are caring for worried and suffering patients and families and working long, stressful hours. Caregivers are at significant risk for psychological distress and in need of crucial emotional support right now.

Talks for when you feel totally burned out

Worn out? Exhausted? Bleary-eyed? If you need a little something to ease your frustration and get you back in the spirit, this collection of talks should help.

Talks for when you feel totally burned out

These tools include the free award-winning Healthy Minds Program app—ranked “best meditation app” by The New York Times, Healthline, Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and Business Insider, and the Emmy award-winning Kindness Curriculum, which contributed to Sesame Street’s season on kindness.

Why health worker burnout matters

The realities of our health care system are driving many health workers to burnout. They are at an increased risk for mental health challenges and choosing to leave the health workforce early.

Think cultural health

This website features information, continuing education opportunities, resources, and more for health and health care professionals to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services, or CLAS.

Lean more, stress less

Engaging with more than 1.3 million HCPs across 150 countries, we offer a unique physician-first online community that allows clinicians to communicate about issues that are important to them and their patients.

Maryland's Voice on Mental Illness

We are dedicated to providing education, support, and advocacy for persons with mental illnesses, their families, and the wider community. We promise to work to build better lives.

Healthcare Workers

Narrowing down the definition of essential healthcare workers. Finding the issues faced by essential healthcare workers. Finding interventions to resolve issues faced by essential healthcare workers.

At Risk Communities Resources

Protect yourself with Covid and Flu Vaccines

Your health is worth protecting. As part of your preventive care routine, consider getting vaccinated against COVID-19 and the flu this year. Older adults who get vaccinated are more likely to avoid severe disease, stay out of the hospital, and have a lower risk of death from these illnesses.

Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza

Influenza vaccination protects against influenza and its potential complications. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices makes influenza vaccination recommendations for each influenza season.

Find free or low-cost health services

HRSA programs provide health care to people who are geographically isolated and economically or medically vulnerable. This includes programs that deliver health services to people with HIV, pregnant women, mothers and their families, those with low incomes, residents of rural areas, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and those otherwise unable to access high-quality health care.

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