{"id":3299,"date":"2021-11-22T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2021-11-22T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T17:05:14","slug":"faith-in-vaccines-lay-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/faith-in-vaccines-lay-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith In Vaccines Lay Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><em>Empathetic conversations are key for COVID-19 vaccination.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The holidays are approaching again and COVID-19 cases are trending upward. Unlike last year, the COVID-19 vaccine is now widely available for ages 5 and up, as well as booster shots for all adults. Vaccination can be a difficult topic; empathy is critical for successful conversations about COVID-19 vaccines.<br><br>In a recent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcur.org\/health\/2021-11-15\/kansas-city-expert-says-empathy-is-key-to-solving-vaccine-hesitancy\" target=\"_blank\">KCUR interview,<\/a> Kansas City expert Alex Francisco shared that the best strategy for vaccine hesitancy is to first listen.<br><br>&#8220;Really understand why a friend or family member may be worried about the vaccine, Francisco said. Then: be empathetic.&#8221;<br><br>We developed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Faith-In-Vaccines-COVID-19-Toolkit-for-Laypeople.pdf\">this toolkit<\/a> <\/strong>to help you facilitate open conversations about the <a href=\"https:\/\/kansasreflector.com\/2021\/08\/09\/kansans-can-play-an-important-role-in-vaccine-acceptance\/\">importance of the vaccine<\/a>. <br><br>We also developed the <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/Faith-In-Vaccines-COVID-19-Guide-and-Toolkit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Faith in Vaccines<\/a><\/strong> sermon guide and toolkit to help faith leaders create an open and empathetic space to start a discussion and answer questions about the effectiveness and importance of the vaccine.<br><br>We hope these tools are useful to you as we all work to end the pandemic.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathetic conversations are key for COVID-19 vaccination. The holidays are approaching again and COVID-19 cases are trending upward. Unlike last year, the COVID-19 vaccine is now widely available for ages 5 and up, as well as booster shots for all adults. Vaccination can be a difficult topic; empathy is critical for successful conversations about COVID-19 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news","tag-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}