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Welcome! • Go over a few basics about the

Coronavirus

• Open time for your questions

• Maine - Self-Care during this

time of Coronavirus

• Next Monday’s meeting is

about how to have meetings

using computers and tablets

and phones.

Green Mountain Self-Advocates

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Who We Are?

Self Advocacy Resources and technical Assistance Center

Topic: What is the Coronavirus?March 17, 2020

Meeting Recording:https://zoom.us/rec/play/vsIuf7iq-j03G4KVtQSDB6cqW9S9f_6s13dN_

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Link to our March 17, 2020 meeting

https://zoom.us/rec/play/vsIuf7iq-j03G4KVtQSDB6cqW9S9f_6s13dN__pcmk2yWiMAOlWnN-EbZOJzRWW3imNoVcA3H3_lnjQn?continueMode=true

Topic: What is the Coronavirus?March 17, 2020

Meeting PowerPoint:https://selfadvocacyinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/What-is-Coronavirus-March-17-2020-

Zoom-Meeting.pdf

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Link to our March 17, 2020 meeting

https://selfadvocacyinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/What-is-Coronavirus-March-17-2020-Zoom-Meeting.pdf

What is COVID-19?

www.selfadvocacyinfo.org

How do you get it?


• Someone with COVID-19 gives you their germs.

• When they cough or sneeze, their germs get in the air, on you, and on things.

• Germs get into your body through your mouth, nose, and your eyes.

How can I stay healthy, or not get it?

Wash your

hands.

Cough or Sneeze

into your elbow.


Try not to touch your face

Try to keep

your hands busy:


Social DistancingWhat does that

mean?

If you are next to someone.

1. You put your arm out.

2. They put their arm out.

3. And you should not be touching

This is NOT Social DistancingThese people are too close

This is what Social Distancinglooks like.

These people are standing 6 feet apart.

Okay – your turn

What are some other examples of social distancing?


It is best not to use public transportation right now –but if you have to where should you sit?

What about at a grocery store?

Questions asked and answered

during this meeting.

1. How do I get my medicine if I am too

nervous about going to the pharmacy?

2. What is a nice, polite way to bring up

social distancing when someone is too

close to me?

3. Can we self-advocacy groups work

across different states to collect supplies

Self-Care for Self-Advocates

How to Take Care of Yourself During COVID-19

Self-Care Slides by SUFU - Speaking Up For Us in Maine http://sufumaine.org/

http://sufumaine.org/

Social Distancing

• Social Distancing is a term that is being

talked about a lot in the last few weeks.

• Social Distancing means keeping a bigger

than normal distance away from other

people.

• It means staying at home.

• It means not shaking hands, hugging,

kissing, fist bumping, or touching.

• It means keeping at least a 6 foot distance

from yourself and others at all times.



•Practicing Social Distancing does not mean you have to be isolated

•There are many different waysyou can stay connected including:•Using video chat with family,

friends, support staff•Attending a phone/video self-

advocacy meeting• Joining an online support group •Sending messages, or emails to

the people you usually talk to•Attending webinars or other

online meetings •Attending online church

services •Connect on Social Media

How to Stay

Connected

Self-Care Slides by SUFU -Speaking Up For Us in Maine



Feelings are Real

•You may be having a lot

of feelings right now.

•Remember, your feelings

are real, and it is okay to

talk about your feelings

with someone you trust.



Who Can You Talk To?

• Friends• Family• Neighbor• Self-Advocacy Leaders

and Allies

• Case Manager

• Support Staff

• Crisis Phone Lines

• Disability Rights Organizations



Practice Self-Care


• Self-Care is taking care of

your self in a way to

manage stress and your

feelings.

• There are many different

ways you can practice good

self-care.


Ideas for Self-Care•Start a Journal•Take a bubble bath•Read or Listen to a Book• Look at the Stars•Try some yoga (Chair yoga)•Stretch•Chew some Bubble gum

(See how big you can make a bubble)•Watch the clouds go by•Make a cup of tea •Read a magazine



• Watch your favorite movie (At home)

• Go for a walk (just stay at least 6 feet away from others)

• Make a craft

• Bake a new recipe

• Play with your pet

• Sing!

• Meditate (You can find meditations for free on Spotify)

• Listen to music

• Listen to a Podcast

• Dance

Ideas for Self-Care




Household Items Making sure you have enough

household supplies stay home -

This is important.

➢You can ask someone to go

to the grocery store for you.

Some people do not have extra

money to “stock up.”

➢Tell your support staff,

family, or case manager if

you are running low on

medicine, food, pet food or

other household supplies.


Ways to Connect

• See if your Local Self-Advocacy

Meetings can happen by phone or

video conference

• Self Advocacy Resource Technical

Assistance Center (SARTAC)

• SARTAC will hold weekly meetings

online

• SARTAC will have information about

how to use video conferencing



This event is supported in part by a cooperative agreement from the

Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Administration

for Community Living, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged

to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do

not, therefore, necessarily represent official Administration on Intellectual and

Developmental Disabilities policy.

The Self-Advocacy Resource and Technical Assistance Center (SARTAC)

seeks to strengthen the self-advocacy movement by supporting

self-advocacy organizations to grow in diversity and leadership.

The resource center is a project of Self Advocates Becoming

Empowered (SABE). SARTAC https://selfadvocacyinfo.org/ is a

Developmental Disabilities Project of National Significance,

funded by the Administration For Community Living – Administration on

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AIDD).

https://selfadvocacyinfo.org/

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