When family members and colleagues didn’t have adequate PPE in March of 2020, our founding members started working on ways to change that. Those efforts grew into the Community Network for Epidemic Preparedness and Support (CNEPS). We soon began to see many common interests and recurring themes as well as gaps in a variety of systems: health care, mental health, education and systemic racism emerged at the top of the list. CNEPS has been formed as a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation and we are in the process of applying for confirmation of its status as a tax-exempt organization under Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3). Through a broad array of disciplines, we are supporting the response to COVID-19 in healthcare settings and the community.
Our board is comprised of physicians, engineers, manufacturers, public health experts, and historians in global health. Our mission is to systematically bolster essential healthcare human resources in an effort to protect healthcare workers and the community during infectious disease epidemics.
We continue to seek equitable and sustainable solutions to keep healthcare workers and vulnerable community members safe with a systemic approach to safety, health and mental health support (Emotional PPE). Since March 2020, we have been working toward our mission during the initial and subsequent COVID-19 surges.
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