Resources for Families and Children, Transportation, Housing, Income and Legal Support During COVID-19 Webinar Resource Links

Category or Audience 

Resource Title 

Description 

Link 

FAMILIES & CHILDREN 

State Of 

Massachusetts 

Exempt Emergency Child Care 

Programs 

https://eeclead.force.com/apex/EEC

_ChildCareEmergencyProcedure 

National Association of School Psychologists 

Talking to Children About 

COVID-19 (Coronavirus): A 

Parent Resource 

https://www.nasponline.org/resourc es-and-publications/resources-and-podcasts/

school-climate-safety-and-cr isis/health-crisis-resources/talking-t o-children-about-covid-19-(coronavi rus)-a-parent-resource 

The National Child 

Traumatic Stress 

Network 

Parent/Caregiver Guide to 

Helping Families Cope With the 

Coronavirus Disease 2019 

(COVID-19) 

https://www.framingham.k12.ma.us /cms/lib/MA01907569/Centricity/D omain/1

622/NCTSN%20Caregiver%2 0Guide%20to%20Helping%20Familie s%20Cope%20

with%20COVID-19.pdf 

NPR 

Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring 

The New Coronavirus 

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats andsoda/2020/02/28/809580453/ju st-fo

r-kids-a-comic-exploring-the-ne w-coronavirus 

National Parental 

Stress Hotline 

 

https://www.nationalparenthelpline

.org/ 

INCOME 

Department of 

Unemployment 

Assistance 

Important Unemployment 

Information 

https://www.mass.gov/alerts/impor tant-unemployment-information#un 

defined 

Department of 

Unemployment 

Assistance 

Massachusetts Department of 

Unemployment Assistance 

(DUA) Virtual Town Halls 

https://www.mass.gov/forms/massa chusetts-department-of-unemploym ent

-assistance-dua-virtual-town-hall s 

U.S. Equal 

Employment Opportunity 

Commission 

(EEOC) i 

What You Should Know About the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and COVID-19 

https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsro om/wysk/wysk_ada_rehabilitaion_act_

coronavirus.cfm 

Amazon 

Amazon is Hiring - Start as soon as 7 days - $17/hr 

https://www.amazondelivers.jobs/ 

HOUSING 

Massachusetts 

Alliance for Sober 

Housing (MASH)  

  

https://mashsoberhousing.org/resourc es/other-resources/ 

LEGAL SUPPORTS 

LCR Boston (Lawyers 

For Civil Rights) 

Legal Responses to COVID-19 

Economic Justice, Education, 

Employment, Health Disparities, 

Housing, Immigrant Rights, 

Police Accountability, Race and 

Climate, Racial Justice, Voting Rights 

http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-i mpact/economic-justice/

legal-respo nses-to-covid-19/ 

LCR Boston (Lawyers 

For Civil Rights) 

Legal Help & Support During 

COVID-19 

Coronavirus, Health Disparities, 

Racial Justice 

http://lawyersforcivilrights.org/our-i mpact/health-disparities/legal-helpsupport-during-covid-19/ 

TRANSPORTATION 

MBTA 

Reduced Service 

https://www.mbta.com/covid19 

State Of 

Massachusetts (Dept. 

of Public Health) 

Travel information related to 

COVID-19 

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ covid-19-preparation-in-massachuse tts 

OTHER 

H.R. 6201, FAMILIES 

FIRST CORONAVIRUS 

RESPONSE ACT 

 

https://appropriations.house.gov/sit es/democrats.appropriations.house. 

gov/files/Families%20First%20summ ary.pdf