Current Kadima COVID Guidelines
Kadima COVID Guidelines as of 3/2022
Values:
Gathering Requirements:
Gathering: When we gather in-person indoors, we ask everyone to wear a mask at all times except while eating and drinking and to strictly practice physical distancing when doing so. When we are outside, masks are encouraged but not required and physical distancing should be tended to with care, especially around those who are choosing to wear a mask. We respect your decision to not mask and will ask anyone who is encroaching on the space of others consistently to reconsider their presence at an event.
Masks: We recommend masks that are the quality of KN95 or similar when indoors and at least 3-layer cloth masks when outdoors, for those choosing to wear a mask. Kadima is currently unable to provide masks at our events.
Vaccines: All who are of age or medically able to be vaccinated and boosted are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated/boosted to the full extent they are able. Members of our community who are not able to be vaccinated because of age or medical exemptions are welcome at Kadima events as long as the mask requirement is upheld.
Responsible Parties for Community Programming:
When choosing to hold an in-person event, Kadima requires that all requirements, as listed above, are met.
Values:
- Reliable Communication & Honesty: We communicate regularly with our membership as the situation changes about what we can and are doing, and what we can’t.
- Staying Informed: We make our evaluation and decisions following the lead of those with the most scientific information and informed by Public Health - Seattle & King County guidance.
- Access & Equity: We make decisions and send communications with our most vulnerable community members in mind.
- Expressing Care for Ourselves & Each Other: We express and perform physical, emotional, and spiritual acts of care such as listening; creating space for emotion (fear, sadness, surprise, happiness, anger, and beyond); providing the opportunity for community members to show up with physical support for one another; making spiritual counseling accessible to one another; opening ourselves up for receiving requests for care.
- Kadima is committed to being a multi-access community that centers disability justice, understanding that for some, online events have not and will not work for them, and for others, onsite events will continue to not work for them -- all for a wide range of reasons and needs. As they are deemed safe by public health professionals, we will have a mix of outdoor onsite events and online events with an aim to serve all of our members.
- In-person gatherings may be held outdoors utilizing these guidelines.
- Parties responsible for determining when an event will be held in person are listed below.
- This policy applies to all Kadima community events with the exception of Kadima School. Young people’s programming will have a different set of guidelines that are based on this document and adapted to young people who largely are not yet eligible to be vaccinated. Our Director of Youth & Family Learning, with guidance from staff, teachers, and school families, are in process updating those guidelines and planning for Kadima School 5782 as the situation evolves.
Gathering Requirements:
Gathering: When we gather in-person indoors, we ask everyone to wear a mask at all times except while eating and drinking and to strictly practice physical distancing when doing so. When we are outside, masks are encouraged but not required and physical distancing should be tended to with care, especially around those who are choosing to wear a mask. We respect your decision to not mask and will ask anyone who is encroaching on the space of others consistently to reconsider their presence at an event.
Masks: We recommend masks that are the quality of KN95 or similar when indoors and at least 3-layer cloth masks when outdoors, for those choosing to wear a mask. Kadima is currently unable to provide masks at our events.
Vaccines: All who are of age or medically able to be vaccinated and boosted are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated/boosted to the full extent they are able. Members of our community who are not able to be vaccinated because of age or medical exemptions are welcome at Kadima events as long as the mask requirement is upheld.
Responsible Parties for Community Programming:
When choosing to hold an in-person event, Kadima requires that all requirements, as listed above, are met.
- Lifecycle Events: The family leading the event, in collaboration with staff, will create events that are responsive to the needs of the family and the needs of congregants.
- Services, Rituals, Holiday Celebrations, & Community Education: Staff, in collaboration with the Beit Avodah (Kadima's Ritual & Liturgy Team), will create programs that are responsive to the spiritual, social, and physical needs of the Kadima community.
- School: Staff, in collaboration with teachers, will create programming that is responsive to and informed by the unique needs of the young people and families in each class. (Youth and family programming falls outside the scope of these guidelines; see note above under “Scope & Commitments”.)
- Partnerships: Staff and board will make decisions about in-person partnerships based on the guidance below.
- Staff & Clergy Visits: Staff will meet in person with community members at their own discretion, following all guidelines as outlined above.