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IMPACT
2022 was a rollercoaster. Read below to learn more about how we worked within community to power through.

Our impact can be seen as follows:
49
SITES
80K
TESTS ADMINISTERED
12
EVENTS
30
PARTNERS
300
PEOPLE TRAINED
79
COMMUNITY HIRES
Our Historical Timeline of Covid-19 Response
COVID-19 Pandemic | Date | Safer Together |
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COVID-19 pandemic begins | Jan. 2020 | |
California becomes the first state to issue stay at home order, schools close for remainder of school year. | Mar. 2020 | |
Private schools re-open in SF, but public schools remain closed; USA records 100,000 cases in 1 day. | Nov. 2020 | Four parents on a mission found Safer Together to help fellow families in SF. |
FDA approves first COVID vaccines for adults 18 and over. | Dec. 2020 | |
One year since lockdown and public schools in SF are still closed. The U.S. is the global epicenter of pandemic. | Mar. 2021 | We become a licensed clinical laboratory with a CLIA certificate of waiver, allowing us to perform point of care tests. We operationalize on-site rapid antigen testing. |
Our pilot testing program begins at Alta Vista School, testing staff on a weekly basis and then the entire school for their return from spring break. | ||
An estimated 5.1 million women left the workforce when COVID-19 closed schools and child-care centers in 2020. | May 2021 | First CBO partnerships start to form to plan for summer safety for children and youth through the Department of Children, Youth and Families. |
June 2021 | We get our 501(c)(3) status. | |
Slight dip in cases has some declaring the pandemic over. | Summer 2021 | We hire our first batch of community test administrators and provide on-site testing for 8 partners, allowing children, youth, and caretakers to gather safely. |
In late July the Delta Variant sends cases back up right before school starts. | We strengthen our commitment through additional partners, new hires, staff promotions, and a partnership with the UCSF/Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub. | |
The Delta Variant wave dies down, but new variants of concern are appearing across the globe. | Fall 2021 | We increase in partnerships and in impact: by October we’ve done 20,000 tests. |
CDC announces an additional $300 million in funding for community health worker services to support COVID-19 prevention and control. | We begin our Self Admin program, training partners to administer tests in their respective contexts. | |
The first case of the Omicron variant in the U.S. is detected by the California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health. | Dec. 2021 | We launch our partnership with SFUSD schools, boost hiring to meet exponential increase in demand, and increase testing capacity in SF by 20%. |
As omicron wreaks havoc across the country and interest in reliable testing resources grows, over the counter testing supplies decrease. | Jan. 2021 | We administer over 18,000 tests in the month of January alone, including SFUSD testing events totaling over 1,000 tests per day. |
The weekly average of new infections in the U.S. is now six times higher than it was in 2021. New sub variants continue to evolve. | Spring 2022 | We launch our Safer Air community initiative, securing partnerships to provide indoor air quality monitoring and assessments to partner orgs. |
Jun. 2022 | We hold a Corsi-Rosenthal box building event at Alta Vista School, with 46 boxes built. | |
We hit yet another milestone: 70K tests administered. | ||
We launch our new Community Care Specialist role and human development model to build internal capacity. | ||
Aug. 2022 | We launch the at-home testing pilot with families from the SF Brown Bombers community. |
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