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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
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
What is COVID-19?
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How do you get it?
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• 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.
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Try not to touch your face
Try to keep
your hands busy:
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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?
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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/
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.
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•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
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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.
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Who Can You Talk To?
• Friends• Family• Neighbor• Self-Advocacy Leaders
and Allies
• Case Manager
• Support Staff
• Crisis Phone Lines
• Disability Rights Organizations
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Practice Self-Care
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• 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
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• 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
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Self-Care Slides by SUFU - Speaking Up For Us in Maine http://sufumaine.org/
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
Self-Care Slides by SUFU - Speaking Up For Us in Maine http://sufumaine.org/
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).