The SKCP Blog
During these challenging and unprecedented times, South Kensington Community Partners has redoubled its efforts to connect our community with critical resources, whether it's distributing hundreds of food boxes to neighbors in need each week or connecting residents with programs to help prevent eviction/foreclosure or make needed home repairs.
Rebuild accepting applications
South Kensington Community Partners
Skilled Trades Trainees, Rebuild
City of Philadelphia
Rebuild is currently accepting applications from individuals interested in careers in the following trades: bricklaying, carpentry, cement masonry, electrical, elevator construction, finishing trades (painting, drywall finishing, glazing, etc.), insulating, ironworking, masonry, plastering, plumbing, roofing, sheet metal work, sprinkler fitting, and tile setting.
This posting is for a workforce development training program operated by the City of Philadelphia. It is not a posting for City employment.
Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
Click here for details.
WELCOME TO PA CAREERLINK®
South Kensington Community Partners
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
LET'S GET YOU TO THE RIGHT PLACE
I am an Individual
Looking for a personalized approach to career and training servicesI am an Employer
Looking for resources and support for my business or organizationI am a Training Provider
Looking to provide training for job seeker
More details here.
CHECK OUT SERVICES BY OUR PARTNER AGENCIES:
PA COMPASS
Employment & Training
Apprenticeships
Disability Services
File an Unemployment Claim
Unemployment Self-Service
FACE MASKS: What to know.
South Kensington Community Partners
Face masks: Everything you need to know about buying, washing, replacing and wearing one.
Staff Reports, Philadelphia Inquirer
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Face masks are now a part of our daily lives.
Ever since guidance from Gov. Tom Wolf and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to cover our face to help keep ourselves (and others) safe, we’ve jury-rigged all kinds of face coverings, from using a scarf, to tying a bandanna, to sewing ourselves something fancy (and, if we can’t sew, using safety pins or any other MacGyvered attachments to keep the fabric from falling apart). That was fine at first. But now as the pandemic stretches into months, it’s a good time to pause and find some ways to make masks work better and be more comfortable.
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to do it better. Here’s everything you need to know about wearing a mask right now.
AmeriCorps members needed for contact tracing
South Kensington Community Partners
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.
PHILLY Families Read Together
South Kensington Community Partners
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
APM 50th Anniversary Virtual Speakers Series
South Kensington Community Partners
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Re-Imagining Philadelphia - Steering Committee Application
South Kensington Community Partners
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Are you interested in being part of a new initiative to lend your voice to city government decision-making?
The Philadelphia City Planning Commission maintains and updates the city’s comprehensive plan. As the Commission begins the next comprehensive planning process, one of the first steps is beginning a 12-18-month-long process of community engagement. We need 10-15 members of the public who will join members appointed from various city Advisory Commissions for the Re-Imagine Philadelphia Steering Committee, made up of about 40 people.
Who should apply:
∙ Any Philadelphia resident interested in creating processes for how our City Government interacts more authentically with residents
Accepted participants will receive a small stipend for their time and be expected to participate in 12 of 15 meetings (2 hours each) to be held between December 2020 and Spring 2022 (virtually for the foreseeable future).
Applications are due December 15, 2020. Click here for more details and to apply.
Philadelphia Fall Bioblitz
South Kensington Community Partners
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Do No Harm: Community, cameras & respect
South Kensington Community Partners
December 4th
4PM – 6PM
Presented by Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Hidden River Films, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and Scribe Video Center.
Have you been filmed or photographed, with or without your permission, in a way that impacted your life?
Have you taken photographs or videos of people in Kensington?
Have images of Kensington colored the way you think about the community?
Join this community conversation about the role of cameras in the Kensington community; how they can harm and how they can help. Join neighbors and media professionals as we explore participatory methods of creating news stories, pictures and film and talk about how representation matters. As a follow-up, we will share insights we discover together in a poster campaign throughout the neighborhood.
This event will be held in English and Spanish. Click here to register.
Pathways to Reform, Transformation, & Reconciliation Community Engagement Series: Circles of Truths
South Kensington Community Partners
Monday, November 30
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Join us for the first session of a community engagement series on police reform—Circles of Truths—hosted by the City of Philadelphia's Pathways to Reform, Transformation, and Reconciliation.
This virtual event will center around truth-sharing, grief and building a space for healing, discussion, and listening as we work towards building an equitable future for all. The series' opening session will center on addressing and repairing harm, and gathering collaborative feedback. Moving forward, it will focus on fostering relationships, community building and the continued development of public safety and policing reforms.
Register here to receive a Zoom invitation prior to the start of the event.
La Esquina Garden Fundraising Campaign
South Kensington Community Partners
18 days to go!!
$eedMoney fundraising campaign for La Esquina
Here is the link to the page, which you can look at but won't be live till Sunday:
https://donate.seedmoney.org/5144/la-esquina-community-garden
(This campaign will start on Nov 15 2020 at 12:00 PM EST and will end on Dec 15 2020 at 12:00 PM EST)
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
The Tues and Thurs Open Garden will return, at 3pm, for composters, children needing a break from school, others needing a break from _____, food gatherers and passersby. There are collards and kale, plus microgreens like spinach, arugula, cilantro, lettuce. Herbs include dill, marjoram, thyme, oregano. Still open 10-noon on Saturdays, weather permitting.
FB: La Esquina Community Garden
email: laesquinagarden@gmail.com
La Esquina's parent non-profit is Olde and South Kensington Green Space, www.oskgreen.com
COVID Alert PA App
South Kensington Community Partners
COVID Alert PA is the official mobile app by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) that uses the Exposure Notification System (ENS) provided by Apple and Google.
You can now add your phone to the fight against COVID-19 by going to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store and downloading the free COVID Alert PA app to your smartphone. The app runs on iPhones that support iOS 13.5 and higher, and Android phones running Android 6.0 and higher. The app is not intended to be used by people under 18 years of age.
COVID Alert PA works in Pennsylvania, and when you travel to other locations in the United States including: Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Wyoming.
States piloting an exposure notification app with al limited population include: California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington.
Details about the App click here, and about COVID-19 Data for Pennsylvania click here.
Downloadable Resources
You, too, can join in the fight against COVID. We invite you to spread the word about the COVID Alert PA app with your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and employers.
You can find downloadable posters about the app, as well as, stickers, postcards, and social media graphics on the: Community resources webpage.
SKCP Fall 2020 Newsletter & Resource Guide
South Kensington Community Partners
INSIDE: "Avoid Utility Shut-Offs During the Pandemic", "Struggling With Your Mortgage Payments? Save Your Home" , "Mutual Aid", and "Continuing to Combat COVID 19"
Click here to view pdf
Old/South Kensington Tree Tenders
South Kensington Community Partners
If you or your neighbors would like to see trees planted on your block as early as Spring 2021, please fill out the form at
https://pg-cloud.com/phs/?openform=request-a-tree
or call 215-370-0099
or email greening@southkensingtoncommunity.org
Requests submitted mid November through April may be planted the following November.
SURVEYS
South Kensington Community Partners
Online Survey on health effects of visiting green spaces.
You are invited to participate in a short survey that is being conducted by researchers at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. Your responses will be used for a research study of the health effects of visiting green spaces, such as parks and gardens, during the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey should take you fewer than ten minutes to complete.
Participating in the survey is completely voluntary. You are welcome to skip any questions that you prefer not to answer, and you can stop participating at any time. Choosing to not participate will not be held against you. Your survey responses will be completely anonymous, and we will not collect any identifying or contact information from you. We will not contact you again after you participate in the survey. There are no risks or benefits to participating in this survey.
Click here to fill the survey.
Take the Voter Experience Survey.
November 3, 2020 Voter Experience Survey: In-person vs. mail-in voting.
Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions about your voting experience in this fall's 2020 General Election. The results of this survey are important to understanding what voters encounter during the voting process. The aggregate results will be publicly available after the election. No identifiable information is required.
The Committee of Seventy is a nonpartisan advocate for better government and elections. We invite voters from across Pennsylvania to participate. Thank you, in advance, for your help in improving elections.
Click here to take the survey.
Coronavirus FAQ: How Do I Clean My Mask
South Kensington Community Partners
Washing Machine? Oven? Broccoli Steamer?
Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, NPR
Does putting a reusable mask in the oven for 30 minutes at 165 degrees Fahrenheit kill the virus that causes COVID-19 and other pathogens? If not, how do I clean it?
The good news: Yes, baking your cloth or synthetic mask would probably kill the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. Several studies have shown that the virus dies when exposed to 158 degrees Fahrenheit for a length of time somewhere between 2 1/2 minutes and an hour.
The bad news: It may also singe your mask.
Remember, says professor Raina MacIntyre, head of the Biosecurity Research Program at the University of New South Wales' Kirby Institute, "An oven is designed to burn things!"
The jury is still out on exactly how important it is to wash your mask to prevent COVID-19 infection, but MacIntyre dug into some data from her 2015 study on cloth masks and found evidence that washing masks in a machine, instead of by hand, helps prevent infections of other seasonal viruses in health care workers. Her theory is that the longer wash cycle and hotter water temperatures in a machine kill viruses more efficiently than washing by hand.
Click here on how experts advise you care for your masks (to the best of current knowledge, of course).
Answer the call: Philadelphia Contact Tracing
South Kensington Community Partners
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
