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Essential workers perform duties across critical infrastructure sectors and maintain the services and functions that U.S. residents depend on daily. These include healthcare workers, police officers, professional drivers and more. As essential workers across the nation are starting to receive vaccines to help protect them against COVID-19, the has provided a toolkit to help employers educate their essential workers about this important new prevention tool, raise awareness about the benefits of vaccination, and address common questions and concerns.

How to Get Started

1. Coordinate with your Local Health Department

If you are not already working with your local health department, consider reaching out for assistance. The health department’s immunization program can help coordinate vaccination clinics, provide speakers for presentations, and offer other types of expertise.

2. Communicate with your employees

• : Send this letter to encourage your branches, offices, or units to review and use the toolkit materials.
• : Customize this letter about COVID-19 vaccination to send to your staff.
• : This short newsletter-style blurb can be widely distributed to share information on COVID-19 vaccines.
• (also available in ): These basic slides about COVID-19 vaccines are for informational meetings within your organizations. You can use all or part of the set or also include your own organization’s information.
• : Use these key messages about COVID-19 vaccine to educate your employees.
• : Accurate COVID-19 vaccine information is critical. Share this credible and accurate information.
• : Encourage your employees who are vaccinated to enroll in v-safe and get answers to the frequently asked questions about V-safe.

3. Organize a COVID-19 vaccine presentation or host a speaker

Organize a (also available in ) for your employees and promote it via digital and employee communication channels. If you are able, organize a virtual presentation. If not, organize an in-person presentation following COVID-19 safety precautions. Ask if your can provide a speaker if you do not have a health educator on staff. Distribute copies of the FAQs.

4. Continue to educate your workforce

Through articles, blog posts and social media posts, continue to educate your employees with the latest information. 

Sample Social Media Message:

• Getting vaccinated is the best protection against getting sick with COVID-19. Visit to locate a #COVID19 vaccine site near you.
• You are more than an essential worker; you are essential to your family. Visit to find out how to get vaccinated against #COVID19 today.
• You have taken care of all of us. Now it’s time to take care of you. Visit to find a #COVID19 vaccine site near you.
• Stay up to date with the facts about the #COVID19 vaccine. Visit to learn more.

5. Invite your employees to wear once they have been vaccinated and post vaccination selfies on social media

This information has been provided by the CDC.

Find clinics, pharmacies, and other locations that offer COVID-19 vaccines in the United States on VaccineFinder.