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
     Jails and correctional settings
     DHS licensed residential and non-residential settings
     Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ICF-IID)

• 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 9/17/21
  
  
• 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 Youth Programs and Day and Overnight Camps (PDF)
  Updated 9/1/21

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

• 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 10/8/21
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• CDC: Homeless Populations

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)
  Updated 8/23/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Vaccine Facts in Correctional Facilities (PDF)
  4/8/21
  
  
• COVID-19 Investigation Toolkit for Correctional Settings (PDF)
  Updated 9/10/21
  
  
• CDC: Interim Guidance for SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Correctional and Detention Facilities
  
  
• Minnesota Judicial Branch COVID-19 Information
  
  
• CDC: Correctional and Detention Facilities

DHS licensed residential and non-residential settings

• Recommended Protective Actions in Residential and Non-Residential Settings Licensed by DHS (PDF)
  This document outlines recommendations for additional testing and protective actions that settings licensed by the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) can take in light of the Delta variant.
  8/4/21
  DHS-licensed settings that this guidance applies to includes: adult foster care, chemical dependency residential treatment facilities, children's residential facilities, children's residential facilities with a mental health certification and/or chemical dependency certification, community residential settings, intensive residential treatment services, mental health residential treatment facilities, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, withdrawal management and detox services facilities, adult day centers, and day service facilities.

Adult day centers and day service facilities

• Information for Adult Day Centers and Day Service Facilities with a Confirmed Case of COVID-19 (PDF)
  Updated 2/2/21
  
  
• CDC: Guidance for Adult Day Services Centers

Home and community based community residential settings

• CDC: Guidance for Group Homes for Individuals with Disabilities
• CDC: Guidance for Direct Service Providers

Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ICF-IID)

Must continue to follow federal guidance and infection prevention and control recommendations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

• CMS: Policy and Memos to States and Regions
• CDC: Interim Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Healthcare Personnel During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

Contact us

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