COVID Resources 2020

Resource Information Regarding COVID-19

Financial, Health, & Educational Assistance for All People in the Antioch Community

Siloam Health

Contact: Amy Richardson (Amy.richardson@siloamhealth.com)

• HEALTH Antioch satellite clinic open

  • Walk-ins accepted

  • Accepts the uninsured and those with private insurance

  • Attendance is going up at clinics

  • $40 flat fee

• HEALTH Melrose clinic

  • Accepts new patients

  • Need proof of income

  • Process done in person

Conexión Américas

Contact: General Hotline: (615) 270-9252, call/text 9 A.M. - 5:30 P.M.

   COVID Hotline: (615) 326-9986 (Spanish avail.)

• FINANCIAL Hotel voucher program: coming soon

• FINANCIAL Financial assistance: coming soon

• HEALTH Food distribution: 1x/month. (Email Elizabeth for flyers and to refer families for food distribution)

• HEALTH Spanish-language COVID hotline up and running; call volume starting to pick up

• EDUCATIONAL Survey (Spanish/English) for Davidson County residents on how leftover CARES Act funding should be distributed. 

• EDUCATIONAL P-EBT has ended; advocate w/TIRRC for people who missed the deadline

MPHD

Contacts: Caitlin Washburn: (615)-736-1140,

     Harriett Myers: (615)-651-4904,

     MPHD COVID Results Line: (615)-862-7007

     MPHD COVID hotline: (615)-862-7777

• HEALTH Fairgrounds has opened new family shelter pods

• HEALTH Ongoing issue with employers and persistent positive cases (people who continue to test positive after they have already finished their 10 day isolation). MPHD has a letter from the state people can provide employers. Working with TIRRC and legal team on potential public health order.

Corner to Corner

Contact: Shana Berkeley: (615) 270-9785

   Facebook: @cornertocornernashville 

“As you may know, COVID has disproportionately affected the Black community. About 41% of black businesses closed because of this pandemic. Corner to Corner is working hard to make sure that is not Nashville's story through our entrepreneurship program, The Academy.”

• EDUCATIONAL All the information -- including the “Register Now” button -- is on the website: theacademynashville.org

Salvation Army

Contact:

• EDUCATIONAL The Salvation Army has a good amount of funding available (and possibly more coming) to help those who have been affected by COVID-19 by paying rent or utilities. 

  • Eligibility criteria:

    • Live in Davidson County

    • Have a letter from their employer to prove that they were laid off or their hours were dramatically decreased as a result of COVID-19

Community Care Fund

Contact: (615) 269-6835

• FINANCIAL NES and TVA have teamed up with the Community Care Fund, matching contributions worth $350,000 to help pay down bills for customers financially affected by COVID-19

  • Managed by Needlink Nashville

  • Apply online; or, if you're 75+ you can call

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COVID Info Videos - Multiple Languages

• 13 videos in 11 languages that Church World Service (“CWS”) has put together for refugee and immigrant communities about COVID-19

• CWS worked with medical professionals and community experts from refugee communities in the U.S. to create informational videos in 11 languages, many of which are spoken by communities that don’t have COVID-19 information specifically tailored for them

• Languages (including links): Arabic, Arabic (Short Version), Burmese, English, French, Farsi (Dari), Spanish, Swahili, Swahili (Short Version), Somali, Kinyarwanda, Nepalese, Rohingya

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