Elite Skills Development – Vaccine
Coronavirus Relief Grant Vaccine
2021-05-18 01:46:47
AreYouANonprofit: Yes
Legal Name: Elite Skills Development
Previous Name:
Address: 3515 Linden Ave #56
City: Long Beach
State: CA
Zip: 90807
Tax Id: 27-3569163
Organizational Status: 501(c)(3)
Url 167: http://www.eliteskillsdev.org
Officer Firstname: Jonathan
Officer Lastname: Jackson
Officer Title: Board President
Annual: $58,000
ContactFirstName: Sharon
ContactLastName: Diggs-Jackson
Contacttitle: Executive Director
Tel 952: 562 739-5276
SecondaryPhone: 562 244-9324
Email 765: shdiggs56@gmail.com
GrantPurpose: The grant funds will be used to update the Black & Well Healthy Living Guide, in order for it to be more universal, and print 4,000 copies..
TotalCost: $17,000
Requestedamount: $17,000
Periodoftime: June 1, 2021 – August 31, 2021
Audienceserved: The Healthy Living Guides is a valuable educational tool and appropriate for distribution to all segments of the population.
Demoofaudience: Elite Skills’ previous projects audience has served 75% female, 92% African American, primarily aged 30-79
Numberofserved: 4,000
District: Focus zip codes are ranked in order of 90813, 90805, 90807, 90810, 90802, 90806
Funding: Immediately
Question1: Elite Skills had not performed any household canvassing. Specific details are outlined in detail regarding our COVID and vaccine related outreach and education efforts.
Question2: Elite Skills hosted the City’s first Mobile COVID Vaccination Clinic at St Mark Baptist Church on February 10th & March 3, which provided 200 vaccinations. ESD has assisted with the planning of 5 additional mobile clinics, (Church One, MLK Park, MacArthur Park, Black Health Community Fair and Black Community Health & Vaccine Fair
Question3: Over 6,000 LB residents, and or workers, have been connected to vaccine awareness through the distribution of the Healthy Living Guide, flyers, outreach efforts and COVID related videos
Question4: Elite Skills has directly scheduled 300 vaccine appointments through the City and State networks
Question5: Elite Skills assisted two mental health providers to secure CARES Act funding that provided free counseling to 60 individuals/families with 10 counseling sessions.
Question6: Elite Skills created and distributed 4,000 Healthy Living Guides, and created 8 culturally tailored videos to mitigate risk, transmission, and the spread of COVID-19 to Long Beach Black residents. Additionally, we created and distributed over 800 copies of educational materials, including a vaccine After Care flyer distributed at two clinics, information flyers and two COVID education brochures.
Finally, Sharon Digs-Jackson has been an active participant in the City’s Vaccine Equity & Outreach Subcommittee and provided great assistnce in regards to outreach within the Black & African American community. This includes assisting in planning three African American focused vaccination clinics and creating culturally affirming handouts and materials.
Question7: Two rounds of registrations, over 350, calls were required for the Feb. 10 & March 3 vaccination clinics, the registrations were scheduled over the phone by Elite Skills staff.
Question8: Elite Skills assisted with the development of 5 COVID-19 webinars. The webinars audience totaled approximately 500 viewers
Question9: More than 50% of those who registered for the February mobile clinic were hesitant about the vaccine and the mobile clinic. The clinic was focused on African American seniors and many had first hand knowledge of medical inequity, past abuses and fear over the misinformation surrounding the vaccine, and long term impacts. Based upon the questions and concerns expressed during the phone registrations we understood that many of our seniors were reluctant and scared. The partnership and support from the Minister’s Alliance was crucial, as they are trusted community members and they were had a calming effect on the clinic attendees. All of the registered seniors, except 5, attended the first dose clinic and chose to be vaccinated. Everyone of the clinic attendees received their 2nd dose at either our March 3rd clinic or from their personal physician.
Question10: Thus far, we have registered 20 in MyTurn. We previously registered 200 in the VaxLB system.
Question11: Thus far, we have registered 20 in MyTurn. We previously registered 200 in the VaxLB system.
Question12: Training was provided for 25 volunteers who assisted with the mobile vaccination clinics. The volunteers included 15 pastors/ministers from the LB Minister’s Alliance, who assisted with the clinic outreach, and provided assistance to clinic attendees.
Question13: If awarded, we will distribute the 4,000 Healthy Living Guides, which include an section on COVID and vaccine awareness.
Zipcodes: 90805, 90806, 90810, 90813, Other
File BOD: 1621331207-file-BOD-Elite-Skills-Development-Board-of-Directors.pdf
File Budget: 1621331207-file-budget-LBCF-Disaster-Fund-Budget-Template-2-1.pdf
File Ceoletter: 1621331207-file-ceoletter-LBCF-Board-letter.pdf