AmeriCorps members needed for contact tracing

CCCC Philadelphia COVID Response Corps

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health (PDPH) is seeking AmeriCorps members to help support contact tracing efforts. Contact tracing, a core disease control measure employed by public health personnel for decades, is a key strategy for preventing the further spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19.
AmeriCorps Members will rotate between service modules throughout their year including 1) contact tracing, isolation and quarantine support with PDPH or Public Health Management Corporation 2) Food access support at a food share program 3) service at a local health center.

Job description and details click here.

Answer the call: Philadelphia Contact Tracing

A Health Department contact tracer will:

• Call from a 215-218.XXXX

• Never ask about immigration status or for credit card or social security numbers.

• Be able to send you an email from a phila.gov address.

• More here.

How to Notify Your Contacts

• If you’ve just been told you have COVID-19, you need to take care of your health and also help protect people around you...

• More here.

How to Stay Safe After a COVID-19 Exposure

• You have been identified as someone exposed to a person with COVID-19...

• More here.

Click for available Guidance documents like the following:

• COVID-19 guidelines for the holidays.

• What to do if someone tests positive for COVID-19 at work.

• How to notify your contacts.

• Calculating isolation and quarantine period.

• Recommendations for household members awaiting test results.

City of Philadelphia Provides Update on COVID-19 for Thursday, November 19, 2020