Community Settings: COVID-19

By taking these actions, community organizations can help slow the spread and reduce demands on the health care sector so the most seriously ill people get the supportive care they need.

On this page:
Sports activities
Music, camp, and youth programs
Community- and faith-based organizations
Congregate living and care facilities
     Homeless service providers
     Adult day centers
     Jails and correctional settings
     Housing and licensed residential and non-residential settings

• Minnesota Department of Health Process for Assessing Situational Risk for Transmission SARS-CoV-2 (PDF)
  
  
• Resuming Use of Water Fountains: COVID-19

Sports activities

The decision to participate in sports is not without risk. Team activities mean interacting with many people. In general, the more people you interact with, the more closely you interact with them, and the longer that interaction, the higher your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19. People with symptoms and without symptoms can spread COVID-19. This guidance is intended to reduce the risk of transmission but does not eliminate it.

• COVID-19 Organized Sports Recommendations (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Testing for Minnesota Organized Sports Participants (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21

Music, camps, and youth programs

• Recommendations for Music Activities and Performances During COVID-19 (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Prevention Guidance for Certified Child Care, Youth Programs, and Camps (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21

Community- and faith-based organizations

• COVID-19 Guidance for Festivals, Fairs, and Large Gatherings (PDF)
  6/30/21
  
  
• Caring for People in Their Homes (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Planning Recommendations for Funeral Services and Ceremonies (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• Recommendations for Hmong Funerals during COVID-19 (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• FEMA: COVID-19 Funeral Assistance
  How to apply, who is eligible, and more.
  Flyers with information on accessing this assistance:
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Funeral Assistance (PDF)
  • Coronavirus (COVID-19) Funeral Assistance in Spanish (PDF)
    
    
• Mortuary Science
  Includes COVID-19 specific guidance.
  
  
• CDC: Community Organizations and Gatherings

Congregate living and care facilities

• COVID-19-Related Bed, Capacity and/or Service Change Application Form (PDF)
  4/10/20
  
  
• Guidance for Facilities Providing Transportation Services during COVID-19 (PDF)
  Guidance for Home and Community-Based Service (HCBS) providers, including day services and residential providers, when offering transportation services to high-risk participants in order to best protect drivers and occupants.
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• Minnesota Heading Home Alliance
  For more information and guidance for shelter and congregate living (non-nursing home) providers.

Homeless service providers

• COVID-19: Families and People Living in Encampments (PDF)
  Updated 2/17/21
  
  
• Homeless Shelters and Other Congregate Settings: Interim Guidance for Providers (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• Guidance for COVID-19 Work Exclusion: Homeless Service & Shelter Providers (PDF)
  Updated 11/4/20
  
  
• COVID-19 Testing: Congregate Settings for People Experiencing Homelessness or Living in Emergency Shelters (PDF)
  Updated 2/2/21
  
  
• Interim Guidance about People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness and Encampment Settings (PDF)
  Updated 2/2/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Toolkit for Shelters and Drop-in Centers (PDF)
  8/21/20
  
  
• CDC: Homeless Populations

Adult day centers

• CDC: Guidance for Adult Day Services Centers
  Includes best practices for providing activities, transportation, and daily services within adult day centers.
  
  
• Information for Adult Day Centers and Day Service Facilities with a Confirmed Case of COVID-19 (PDF)
  Updated 2/2/21

Jails and correctional settings

• Interim Guidance for Correctional Settings Based on Community and Facility Transmission Levels of COVID-19 (PDF)
  Updated 6/30/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Grid for Correctional Settings (PDF)
  5/5/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Vaccine Facts in Correctional Facilities (PDF)
  4/8/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Testing Recommendations for Jails, Prisons, and Detention Facilities (PDF)
  Updated 6/2/20
  
  
• Corrections Staff COVID-19 Notification Toolkit (PDF)
  3/17/21
  
  
• Integrating COVID-19 Vaccination with Tuberculosis Testing in Correctional Facilities (PDF)
  Updated 3/26/21
  
  
• Minnesota Judicial Branch COVID-19 Information
  
  
• CDC: Correctional and Detention Facilities

Housing and licensed residential and non-residential settings

• Questions and Answers for Staff, Families, and Clients of Children's Residential Facilities: COVID-19
  Updated 6/17/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Licensed Group Homes (PDF)
  This document replaces "Interim Guidance on the Prevention of COVID-19 for Employees and Persons Who Use Services in Licensed Group Homes" and "Managing COVID-19 in Licensed Group Homes" and includes latest CDC guidance.
  Updated 6/30/21

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