SFIC Weekly Online Briefing for Faith Leaders Addresses School Reopening & SFDPH Health Guidance for In-Person Learning (Thursday, August 12th at 8:30 am via Zoom)

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SFIC WEEKLY ONLINE BRIEFING FOR FAITH LEADERS

ADDRESSES SCHOOL REOPENING AND

SFDPH HEALTH GUIDANCE FOR IN-PERSON LEARNING

Thursday, August 12, 2021

8:30 am - 9:45 am

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Arguably, COVID-19's greatest disruption has been its impact on the academic experience for students, their families, teachers and school administrators. Safety precautions necessitated remote learning, which raised a myriad of equity issues from child care and parental oversight capability to the technology and nutrition "haves" and "have nots." Faculty anxiety heightened as they pivoted to new forms of teaching and lived in fear of being forced back into classrooms before it was safe. Just as vaccines became accessible and hope appeared on the horizon, the Delta Variant emerged, posing new threats to both the vaccinated and unvaccinated, school-age children comprising the largest sector of the latter. This week's Online Briefing for Faith Leaders, hosted by the San Francisco Interfaith Council, welcomes back San Francisco Department of Public Health Acting Government Affairs Liaison Ana Validzic, who will address these issues, as well as the City's updated health guidance for schools, as public and religiously affiliated academic institutions return to in-person learning.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY ONLINE BRIEFING MODERATOR

Michael G. Pappas, M.Div.

Executive Director, San Francisco Interfaith Council

WELCOME & READING OF SFIC STATEMENT

Rita R. Semel

Past Chair, San Francisco Interfaith Council

REFLECTIVE MOMENT

Rev. Beate Chun

Pastor, St. Francis Lutheran Church

(Introduction of Guest Presenter and Presentation

by SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas)

Ana Validzic

COVID-19 Team Lead for Schools and

Acting Government Affairs Liaison

San Francisco Department of Public Health

Ana Validzic is the COVID-19 Team Lead for Schools as well as Acting Government Affairs Liaison at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She has been leading all efforts on schools and childcare since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including managing the schools reopening applications, communicating updated information to schools and childcare, and providing input to all COVID-19 guidance for schools and childcare. Ms. Validzic has been with the San Francisco Department of Public Health since January 2002.