COVID-19 Racial Equity & Community Engagement

A Mask for Everyone is an initiative to ensure that individuals and families, specifically racially, ethnically and culturally diverse communities, have access to a homemade mask and accurate information about masks and how to use them to slow the spread of COVID-19.

More than 135,000 masks have been distributed through the program so far.

Learn more about the initiative

RECERT is partnering with trusted members and community organizations to ensure Ramsey County's diverse racial, ethnic and cultural communities are informed about coronavirus, county services and community resources during the pandemic.

• View winter 2020 partner list
• View summer 2020 partner list

The COVID-19 Racial Equity and Community Engagement Response Team has hosted several virtual community meetings have been held to share an overview of COVID-19 services and answer community questions.

View video recordings and presentation slides from past town halls.

Equity mapping tool

• Ramsey County racial equity analysis map

Information

• COVID-19 health inequities impact on Minnesota's Black and Hispanic residents (Pioneer Press)
• COVID-19 affects on Black people (News One)
• Racial wealth gap and the COVID-19 pandemic (Center for American Progress)
• Xenophobia (NPR News)
• Minnesota, racial inequality and coronavirus (Star Tribune / MSN News)
• Coronavirus impact on Native Americans (Washington Post)
• The census and racial disparities (MinnPost)
• MN DEED addressing racial disparities amid COVID-19 (Mshale)
• White privilege and COVID-19 (Star Tribune)
• COVID-19 Real Talk series (Urban Leage Twin Cities)
• Ensuring racial equity during COVID homeless response (National Alliance to End Homelessness)
• Centering race equity during COVID response (Independent Sector)
• COVID-19's threat to Native American communities (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health)
• COVID-19: A conversation with U.S. Indigenous leaders (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
• Confronting xenophobia (Massachusetts General Hospital)
• United against hate: Discussion on anti-Asian racism (NBC News)

Resources

• League of Minnesota Cities race equity resource
• NAACP: Ten COVID-19 equity considerations (PDF)
• Government Alliance on Racial Equity (GARE): COVID-19 racial equity rapid response
• Racialequitytools.org: COVID-19 resources
• Center for Urban and Racial Equity: Equitable response to COVID-19