Resources
The Vaccine Confidence Project provides resources and training to educate healthcare professionals and the public which share the goal of optimizing vaccine confidence in MA, to ensure that all residents are fully protected against vaccine preventable disease.
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Crucial Vaccination Conversations: A Roadmap to Engage Women and their Communities
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, women make up to 80% of the health care decisions in the family.2 Thus, women caregivers are in a unique position to ensure their family members receive appropriate vaccines as recommended by the CDC and their health care providers. Women need scientifically-based and culturally-relevant information to make informed decisions to optimize their family’s health.
Prevent Cancer with the HPV Vaccine: A Guide to Giving a Strong Recommendation
If a parent, guardian, or patient themself is concerned about the HPV vaccination, listening is key to understanding the source of their concerns before addressing them. At the end of the conversation, health care providers should give a firm and clear recommendation for the HPV vaccine to help protect against serious diseases, including cancer, as they would with any other childhood vaccination.
HPV Vaccination starting at Age 9
Series of 13 videos supporting HPV vaccination at 9
Vaccine Information You Need from the Immunization Action Coalition
For parents and people of all ages, it provides timely, accurate, and factual information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent.
Improving the Vaccination Experience: Reducing Pain and Anxiety for Children and Adults
Anxiety about needles and injections affects as many as 2 out of 3 children and 1 out of 4 adults. This anxiety can contribute to dreading, delaying, or avoiding vaccinations, even when the importance of preventing illness is understood. Good news: there are safe, effective, and practical steps that vaccinators, vaccine recipients, and caregivers can take to reduce vaccination-related pain and anxiety. Creating a less stressful vaccination experience increases confidence in vaccination.
St. Jude Pathway to Prevention-Fact Sheets
St. Jude Pathway to Prevention-Fact Sheets General audience, parents and healthcare providers (English and Spanish available)
65+ Flu Defense
Older adults account for about 70-85% of annual flu-related deaths in the United States.
Improving the Vaccine Experience: Accessible Vaccination for Neurodiverse People at Any Age
People with autism and other developmental disabilities have lower childhood immunization rates than their peers without autism, leaving them vulnerable to many vaccine-preventable diseases
Communicating About Vaccines – COVID-19 & More
Details the dangers of COVID-19 disease, explains the US system to authorize and approve vaccines and highlights the safety & effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
Voices for Vaccines-Vax Ambassador Monthly Training-past recordings
Voices for Vaccines-Vax Ambassador Monthly Training-past recordings: busting myths, cancer prevention, stopping misinformation, etc...
Standing Orders Templates for Administering Vaccines
Standing Orders Templates for Administering Vaccines
Vaccination Communication: Inoculating against Misinformation
Recorded webinar addressing vaccine misinformation and methods for demystifying misinformation.
Fall 2022 Virtual Seminars: Keys to Improving HPV Vaccination
Fall 2022 Virtual Seminars: Keys to Improving HPV Vaccination
National HPV Roundtable: Start at Age 9 Toolkit
American Cancer Society’s National HPV Vaccination Roundtable has developed the “Start at Age 9” toolkits that can be used by practitioners in their practice
Immunize.org-Vaccines Are Safe: Explaining Why
This document begins to explain the science underpinning public confidence in today’s vaccines. Each segment provides part of the total picture. Together, the accumulated scientific evidence explains the prudence of routine vaccination policies
American College of Physician-I Raise the Rates Adult Immunization Resource Hub
Raise the Rates initiative provides adult immunization resources and vaccination information to help clinicians increase adult immunization rates in their practices
Practical Immunization Microlearning Resources
Practical strategies for making strong flu and other vaccine recommendations
High Value Care Immunization Referral Toolkit
This High Value Immunization Referral Toolkit, developed as part of ACP’s I Raise the Rates initiative, provides resources to facilitate more effective and collaborative immunization referrals among those in your patient’s immunization neighborhood.
Reframing the Conversation about Child and Adolescent Vaccinations
This strategic brief includes five evidence-based recommendations for communicating about vaccinations, based on rigorous framing research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute, in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Vaccine Fears, Overturned by Facts
Vaccine Fears, Overturned by Facts was created by Back to the Vax, and the Immunize Kansas Coalition. A pdf containing facts which address most misinformation about vaccines.