Our priority is to ensure our communities and UA Alumni around the world are informed and safe. Please check out the resources below to find relevant information, such as tips for maintaining good mental health or a list health services for KCMO residents.
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Health and Mental Resources
- Kennedy Counseling Collective in DC – offering virtual counseling, community-minded, located at Kennedy Street at 5th NW in Petworth-Brightwood.
- NJ: Stress & Mental Health Resources
- Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
- 16 Directories for Therapists of Color
- Free Online Guided Meditation
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Online Sobriety Resources: AA, NA, Al-Anon, Tempest, In the Rooms
- A Guide to Caring For Your Coronavirus Anxiety
- At Home Workouts with Leading Lady Fitness
- NYCWell
- Care for your Coronavirus Anxiety
- Music Industry Therapists: Online Psychotherapy Sessions and Anxiety Relief
- National Domestic Violence Hotline (OR or text LOVEIS to 22522)
- COVID19 Symptom Checker
- Mental Health Self-Assessment and Resources
- Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime, about any type of crisis.
Exercise and Fitness
- Dance Fitness: Local in DC, Follow One Rule Dance (@Oneruledance on Facebook or @OneRuleDance on Instagram) for hour-long virtual Dance Fitness Zumba classes. All levels and ages welcome!
- FitOn – Quick & Effective Workouts, from celebrity trainers (free?)
- 202Strong – live workouts at 12pm on YouTube
- FitSpot live resources on Instagram
- Resource List – Dance Every Day
- Jenny Ford Fitness Classes – We (as a family) are filming workouts in all 50 states in the USA, and have become the ultimate road trippers. We’ll have 120+ step aerobics and marching or walking workouts, 30 minutes each, ready for you by the end of 2020. My teaching style is based on verbally cueing to 32-count music, a skill not many instructors use today. Studies show when *instructors use both verbal and visual cueing in workouts, participants have more success.
- Get in Shape Grrl, on Facebook (broadway edition too)
- 305 Fitness free daily live streams on YouTube and Facebook (may not be suitable with young children, there were lots of curse words in the one I did)
- GymRa – quieter bodyweight strength workouts for creaky floors
- Peloton app – 90 day free trial, lots of good cardio, strength, yoga, bootcamps, etc. for people without a stationary bike (but also great workouts if you do have a stationary bike)
- Fitness Blender – free full length workout videos
When it’s Time to Take a Break from Schoolwork
- Duolingo: Brush up on your foreign language or learn a NEW language with the free online app with over 30 languages to learn:
- Consenses – an artistic game of “Telephone”
- The Social Distancing Festival
- Virtual Museum Tours
- CABIN FEVER: Coping with COVID-19 playlist of online experimental films & videos
- Free Ivy League Courses Online
- Yale Science of Well-being (aka The Happiness Course) available free online
De-stressing Tools
- Coronavirus Sanity Guide – free resources, from 10% happier
- Tara Brach – meditations and talks
- Facing Fear with Compassion, meditation from Elizabeth Gilbert (InsightTimer)
- Anxiety and Depression Association of America – helpful resources for this time
- How to Manage Anxiety in a Pandemic (Vox)
- Lizzo’s meditation and mantra on IG
- Peaceful, nature-rich sound recordings (Audubon)
- PBS Kids: How you & your kids can destress during coronavirus
- Birding for Calm: Joy of Birds (Audubon), All About Birds (Cornell)
- Apps: Headspace App – Calm App
- Storyline Online – Celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Meant for kids, but I think this is a chill thing for adults too.
Finding Work
- 25+ Sites for Finding Remote Work
- 2020 Census Jobs (Uncertain how this might be affected by the current climate but figure it’s worth putting on here)
- Resources for Remote Work
- Rev.com (verified they have paid people for transcription work)
- Real Ways to Earn Money Online (verified)
- Online Opportunities for Bilinguals (not verified but worth trying)
- Tongal’s Global Creative Platform for Writers, Animators, Editors, Podcasters and Filmmakers
- Employing Artists (Public Facebook Group)
- Quarantine Books Club (seeking authors of YA, SciFi, and BIPOC writers in particular)
- Fiverr
- Mentorly.co
- wordsofmouth.org (newsletter with job opportunities)
- Companies Open to Remote Work (Google Doc)
- Upwork
- Freelancer Promo Interviews for Online Products/Services (Kristina Driskill, Guilded Within)
- StoryLo photography
- Where to Find Work/Kenzi Green
- DesignTalk at Bard College
- 7 Simple Steps to Move Your Work Online
- VIPKID Online Teaching Opportunity (Free Coaching)
- Outschool (Online Teaching Opportunities)
- Techno 4 Hire: Classifieds for COVID affected techno/nightlife workers
- NPConnect (KC area job board for nonprofit organizations)
