COVID-19

Resources at Home

• General Resources 

  • Sesame Street Learning Resources from PNC Grow Up Great

  • Resources for Supporting during the Pandemic from Child Trend’s

  • Student Meal Finder Map

  • Parenting during Coronavirus: Tips + Resources from United Way of Metropolitan Dallas 

  • CIRCLE Family Activity Collection

  • Visual Schedule from First3Years

  • Daily Virtual Learning from the Children’s Museum of Houston

  • Positive Parenting & COVID-19: 10 Tips to Help Keep the Calm at Home

  • Tips for Coping with a New Baby During COVID-19

  • Child Care Financial Supplement for COVID-19 – This assistance will help support the cost of direct care for workers deemed essential during the COVID-19 emergency for a three-month period

  • Texas Home Learning – Bringing Quality At-Home Learning to Texas Students

• For Professionals

  • Free Online Trainings from First3Years

  • Teacher Resources for COVID-19 from CLI

  • FREE TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) 101 and Trauma-Informed trainings available through Karyn Purvis Insitute at TCU

  • Child care portal for frontline workers

  • Guidance on Virtual Visits with Very Young Children

  • An Essential Guide of COVID-19 Resources for ECE Professionals from the Foundation for Child Development

  • COVID-19: Guidance for Home Health Service Providers from Texas Health and Human Services 

  • Empowering Parents – Parenting Through COVID-19 Webinar

  Recursos en español

• Ofrece información para padres y cuidadores sobre los brotes de enfermedades infecciosas en su comunidad
• Cómo apoyar a los niños durante la crisis del coronavirus: Consejos para cuidar y proteger a los niños en el hogar
• Varios documentos disponibles para descargar sobre el coronavirus: varios temas para aprender y discutir con los niños de 3-adolecentes
• CDC Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades: Cornavirus- cómo protegerse y qué hacer si está enfermo
• Organización Mundial de la Salud: Cornavirus: Últimas noticias, Datos y cifras, Reportajes, Preguntas y respuestas
• Cornavirus, confinamiento y adolescents: consejos para que los padres que tienen hijos adolescents y jóvenes en casa puedan mantenerlos dentro de casa
• Libro de cuentos para imprimir explicable COVID-19
• Empowering Parents – Parenting Through COVID-19 Webinar

  Regional Resources

• Dallas

  • Community Resource Guide from WiNGS

  • On-demand, personalized, curb-to-curb service in South Dallas and Fair Park from DART
• Fort Worth
  • Early Learning Alliance – The Early Learning Alliance has gathered a number of helpful tools, guidelines, resources, and materials into an accessible Google Drive folder for providers serving children and their families in Tarrant County. The folder is updated daily as information and resources are available, and you may access the folder with its updated contents at any time.
  • Free evening meals available for kids
  • FIND! Child Care tool from BestPlace4Kids – Serving working parents employed at essential businesses during the Tarrant County community response to the COVID-19 emergency
  • Local Resources During COVID-19
  • Resources for Renters
  • Fort ​Worth Community Action Partners
  • City of Fort Worth COVID-19 Community Resources
• Houston
  • COVID-19 Resources for Texas Families from Children at Risk
  • COVID-19 Resources for Information, Action & Education 

General Resources

• Spectrum internet assistance 
• AT&T internet assistance 
• Resources to locate low-cost internet service and computers in your area
• HHSC Launches Mental Health Support Line
  • Statewide COVID-19 Mental Health Support Line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week toll-free: 833-986-1919
• Updates from the Immigration Courts (EOIR), USCIS, and ICE

Helpful Websites

• Texas Health and Human Services
• World Health Organization
• Centers for Disease Control
• White House Guidelines