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1.     Dial 1-866-874-3972.
2.     Provide Client ID 530771
3.     Indicate the language you need assistance in.
4.     Provide Access Code 505171.
5.     Give the interpreter the BCPS phone number that you would like to call.

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1. Catonsville, 1100 Frederick Road, 21228

2. Essex, 1110 Eastern Boulevard, 21221

3. Hereford, 16940 York Road, 21111

4. Lansdowne, 500 3rd Avenue, 21227

5. North Point, 1716 Merritt Boulevard, 21222

6. Randallstown, 8604 Liberty Road, 21133

7. Rosedale, 6105 Kenwood Avenue, 21237

8. Towson , 320 York Road, 21204

9. White Marsh, 8133 Sandpiper Circle, 21236

10. Woodlawn, 1811 Woodlawn Drive, 21207

Residents are required to remain in their vehicles or otherwise adhere to all social distancing guidelines. These requirements are strictly enforced.

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Download the Xfinity WiFi app now to get started. You'll get access to the latest security features and help finding hotspots. Plus, all you have to do is sign in once and your device will automatically connect to your preferred networks at home, at work or on the go.

Or if you are at an Xfinity WiFi hotspot, follow these 3 easy steps to connect:

Enable WiFi on your wireless device.

Having trouble? Use our guides for instruction.

Select your device

Select "xfinitywifi" in your list of available networks.

Important: If you see "XFINITY" on your list of available networks, we recommend installing a secure profile on your device before connecting. Learn more.

Sign in with your Xfinity email or username and password. Then follow the prompts to install the Xfinity WiFi app to optimize your WiFi experience. Forgot your login info?

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County Executive Olszewski and Baltimore County government are working to protect the health, safety and well-being of residents. We will continue to work around the clock to identify additional resources to provide food security for Baltimore County families during this challenging time.

Contact

If you have questions or need assistance with food access, call 410-887-2594 or email food@baltimorecountymd.gov.

If you are a senior, or contacting us on behalf of a senior with food access needs, call 410-887-2594 or email aginginfo@baltimorecountymd.gov

Food Distribution Map

The Food Distribution Site Map includes:

Sites for weekday meal distribution operated by both Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) and Baltimore County Government

Sites for Saturday family food distribution operated by Baltimore County Government

Operational food pantries

Users can search for locations closest to where they live. The map will be updated as additional food resources become available.
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Baltimore County Public Schools Meal Distribution

Baltimore County Public Schools is offering free weekday meals for students at locations around the County. Visit the BCPS website to find designated locations and times.

Weekday Meal Distribution

The Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks, with support from the Maryland Army National Guard, Maryland Food Bank and Healthy Food Access St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore, is offering limited take-away meals for families.

Meals are available from 4 to 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on a first come, first served basis.

Locations

Saturday Food Distribution

The Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks with support from the Maryland Army National Guard and other partners is offering limited food distribution for families on Saturdays.

Food is available on Saturdays starting at 11 a.m. on a first come, first served basis.

Available Restaurant Services: BaltCo To-Go

Restaurants can self-report whether they are offering services during this time by completing the County's online form.

Restaurant operators can share their location and what services they are providing, and the data collected will populate an interactive online map, BaltCo To-Go, that residents can search.
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

The Maryland Department of Human Services has been approved to issue SNAP emergency allotments (PDF) to all current SNAP households for only the months of April and May.

Learn more about SNAP to see if you qualify for monthly benefits to help purchase food.

Pet Food Assistance

Find information about how to receive pet food assistance from the Baltimore Humane Society, or make donations to their Bmore Kind Pet Food Bank.

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Message from Superintendent Dr. Darryl L. Williams

Dear Team BCPS,

I appreciate your patience and understanding during the coronavirus pandemic. There is nothing more important than the safety of our students and staff.

During this period, BCPS will provide "continuity of learning" through virtual and print-based learning pathways depending on student access to technology.

As mandated by the state, BCPS school buildings are closed through Friday, April 24. But learning continues!

Monday, March 30: BCPS staff are working remotely. Professional learning opportunities will begin for instructional leaders and staff.

The week of March 30: The continuity of learning plan will be shared.

Monday, April 6: New learning materials are available for students.

You will find all updates here, and we'll provide more details as we are able.

Voluntary, supplemental practice materials from preschool through high school for March 16 through April 3.
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Includes activities, resources, and homework help.

Students must be present to receive breakfast, lunch, and dinner in one bag on Mondays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., through April 24.

Frequently Asked Questions (in progress)

Submit Questions: Staff (login) Parents and Community Members

More Resources

Office of Payroll
Employee Assistance Program
Social-emotional (mental health and wellness) supports for children and adults

Baltimore County Government Coronavirus Updates
211 (many resources including food options for non-students)
Temporary free Xfinity internet if eligible

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Maryland Department of Health
Baltimore County Department of Health

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المزيد من الموارد مكتب برنامج مساعدة موظفي الرواتب الاجتماعية والعاطفية (الصحة النفسية والعافية) يدعم للأطفال والكبار بالتيمور مقاطعة حكومة Coronavirusتحديثات 211 (العديد من الموارد بما في ذلك الخيارات الغذائية لغير الطلاب) مؤقتة مجانية Xfinity الإنترنت إذا كانت مؤهلة CDC - مراكز السيطرة على الأمراض والوقاية منها وزارة الصحة ولاية ماريلاند وزارة الصحة بالتيمور وزارة الصحة

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Actualización de noticias del coronavirus

Mensaje por el superintendente, el Dr. Darryl L. Williams
Estimado equipo BCPS,
Estoy agradecido por su paciencia y colaboración durante la pandemia del coronavirus, ya que la prioridad es la seguridad de nuestros estudiantes y nuestro personal.
BCPS proveerá educación de forma virtual e impresa, este plan se llama "continuidad de aprendizaje", su disponibilidad dependerá del acceso que los estudiantes tengan a la tecnología y red.
¡La escuela continúa! a pesar de que el estado haya impuesto el cierre de las escuelas hasta el 24 de abril, estaremos trabajando.

lunes, el 30 de marzo: el personal de BCPS trabajará de forma remota, comenzando con desarrollo profesional para los lideres y el personal académico.

durante la semana del 30 de marzo: se publicarán los detalles del plan de "continuidad de aprendizaje."

lunes 6 de abril: los nuevos materiales de aprendizaje estarán disponibles para los estudiantes.

Use este enlace, aquí podrá encontrar detalles y noticias conforme se vayan publicando.

Recursos de aprendizaje para estudiantes
Estos ejercicios de practica suplementaria son voluntarios, están disponibles desde pre escolar hasta nivel secundario, desde el 16 de marzo hasta el 3 de abril.
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Parent University (Universidad para padres)
Este sitio incluye actividades, recursos y ayuda con los deberes, es para padres.

Lugares e información sobre comida gratuita para llevar para los estudiantes
Los estudiantes deben estar presentes en la distribución de comida gratuita para llevar, incluye desayuno, almuerzo y cena; de lunes a viernes de 11:00 am a 1:00 pm hasta el 24 de abril.

Preguntas frecuentes (en progreso)
Envíe sus preguntas, haga clic en la sección aplicable: Personal (entrar) Padres y miembros de la comunidad

Otros recursos
Recursos para familias sin hogar permanente
Oficina de nómina
Programa de asistencia para los empleados
Apoyo socio-emocional, bienestar y salud mental para niños y adultos
Actualización de noticias del coronavirus por parte del gobierno del condado de Baltimore
211 (ofrece una variedad de recursos, incluyendo apoyo con comida para personas mayores de 18 años)
Solicitud para acceso temporal y gratuito a XFinity.

CDC - Centro de prevención y control de las enfermedades
Departamento de salud del estado de Maryland.
Departamento de salud del condado de Baltimore.

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ၾကီးၾကပ္ေရးမႈး Dr. Darryl L. Williams ထံမွသတင္းစကား
ခ်စ္ခင္ရပါေသာ BCPS အသင္း,
Coronavius ေရာဂါကူးစက္ျဖစ္ပြားခ်ိန္အတြင္းသင္႕ရဲ႕စိတ္ရွည္မႈႏွင္႕နားလည္မႈမ်ားကုိတန္ဖိုးထားေလးျမတ္ပါသည္။ ကြ်န္ပ္တို႕၏ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားႏွင္႕၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား၏လံုျခံဳမူထက္ပိုမိုအေရးၾကီးေသာအရာမရွိပါ။ ဤကာလအေတာအတြင္း BCPS သည္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားနည္းပညာရရွိနိင္မူအေပၚမူတည္၍ အြန္လိုင္းႏွင္႕ပုံႏွိပ္စာအေျခခံသင္ၾကားေရးလမ္းေကာင္းမ်ားမွတဆင္႕ဆက္လက္သင္ယူျခင္းကုိပံ႕ပိုးေပးလိမ္႕မည္။
ျပည္နယ္ျပဌာန္းခ်က္အရ BCPS အေဆာက္အဦးမ်ားကုိဧပရယ္ ၂၄ ရက္ေသာၾကာေန႕အထိပိတ္ထားသည္။ သုိ႕ေသာ္ အိမ္တြင္ဆက္လက္သင္ၾကားရန္ျဖစ္သည္။

မတ္လ ၃၀ တနၤလာေန႕မစတင္၍ BCPS ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအိမ္မွအလုပ္လုပ္ၾကသည္။သင္ၾကားေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင္႕၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအတြက္ပညာသင္ယူမႈအခြင္႕အေရးစတင္မည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။.

မတ္လ ၃၀ အပတ္အတြင္းတြင္သင္ၾကားမႈအစီအစဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္မွ်ေ၀မည္။

တနၤလာေန႕ဧပရယ္ ၆ ရက္ေန႕ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္သင္ၾကားေရးပစၥည္းမ်ားအသစ္ရရွိနိင္ပါသည္။

ေနာက္ဆံုးသတင္မ်ားအားလံုးကုိ ဤေနရာ updates တြင္သင္ေတြ႕ရပါမည္။ကြ်န္ပ္တို႕တတ္နိင္သေလာက္အေသးစိတ္မ်ားဆက္လက္ပို႕ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။.

ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသင္ယူမႈအရင္းအျမစ္မ်ား
မူၾကိဳမွအထက္တန္းအထိလိုအပ္ေသာအရင္းအျမစ္မ်ားရရွိရန္ မတ္လ ၁၆ရက္မွဧပရယ္၃ရက္အထိ
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ေလ႕က်င္႕ခန္းမ်ား၊စာအရင္းအျမစ္မ်ားႏွင္႕အိမ္စာအကူမ်ားရွိသည္။

၁၈ ႏွစ္ႏွင္႕ေအာက္မ်ားအတြက္အခမဲ႕အစားအစာေနရာမ်ား
နံနက္၁၁နာရီမွေန႕လည္၁နာရီအထိဧပရယ္၂၄အထိတနၤလာေန႕မွာေသာၾကာေန႕အတြင္းနံနက္စာ၊ေန႕
လည္စာႏွင္႕ညစာမ်ားကုိတစ္အိပ္ထဲရရွိမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

မၾကာခဏေမးျမန္းေသာေမးခြန္းမ်ား(ေလ႕လာဆဲ)
ေမးခြန္းမ်ားကုိ: ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား (login) မိသားစုႏွင္႕ အသိုင္းအ၀ုိုင္း

ေနာက္ထပ္အရင္းအျမစ္မ်ား
လုပ္ခလစာရံုး
၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအကူအညီအစဥ္
လူမႈေရးစိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ(စိတ္က်န္းမာေရးႏွင္႕က်န္းမာေရး) ကေလးမ်ားႏွင္႕လူၾကီးမ်ားအတြက္
Baltimore County အတြက္အစုိးရမွသတင္းမ်ား
211 (ေက်ာင္းသားမဟုတ္သူမ်ားအတြက္အစားအစာေရြးခ်ယ္စရာမ်ားအပါအ၀င္အရင္းအျမစ္မ်ားစြာ)
ရထိုက္လွ်င္ယာယီအခမဲ႕Xfinity အင္တာနက္
CDC - ေရာဂါထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေရးႏွင္႕ကာကြယ္ေရးစင္တာမ်ား
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Baltimore County က်န္းမာေရးဌာန

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You must live in an area where Comcast Internet Service is available. To check if your address is eligible for service click here.

You may qualify if you:

Qualify for programs like the National School Lunch Program, housing assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and others.

Live in an area where Comcast Internet service is available

Have not had Comcast Internet in the last 90 days

Households who owe money to Comcast may still qualify if approved by 12/31/20

Signing up is easy and fast from your mobile device, apply now.

No action is required for existing customers. We've automatically increased Internet speeds for the Internet Essentials service from 15/2 Mbps to 25/3 Mbps for all new and existing customers, which will be the speed of the service going forward. In this way, we will ensure that Internet Essentials customers will be able to use their Internet service for all their increased needs as a result of this health crisis.

If you are eligible for Internet Essentials, apply and are approved by December 31, 2020, you will automatically receive the two-month free promotion. After the promotion, regular rates apply. Internet Essentials current rate is $9.95 per month plus tax unless you disconnect your service.

Due to the Coronavirus emergency, households with outstanding debt owed to Comcast may be eligible for Internet Essentials. We are waiving this qualification if you apply and are approved by 12/31/20. After 12/31/20, standard eligibility rules apply. This means any low-income household that is not a current Xfinity customer or that has not subscribed to Xfinity Internet services within the last 90 days, but owes the company for a back due bill that is less than a year old (for Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet, Xfinity Home, or Internet Essentials), will now be eligible to apply for Internet Essentials.

Signing up is easy and fastest from your mobile device, go to: https://apply.internetessentials.com/

If you selected a self-installation kit, please allow 5-7 days to receive your kit.

Yes, you can disconnect Internet Essentials service at any time. If you are a new customer and are approved by December 31, 2020, you will receive two months free. After which, you can either cancel the service (which you can do at any time) or keep it as a regular paying Internet Essentials customer for $9.95 per month plus tax. Because there is no contract, a customer can disconnect their Internet Essentials service at any time without penalty.

We appreciate you being an Internet Essentials customer. Though we can't offer you two months of free service, we are always looking for new ways to increase the value of your service and ensure that you have the tools you need to use the Internet successfully. It's our priority that you stay connected to the Internet at home during this difficult time.

1. We're automatically raising the speeds for all Internet Essentials customers at no additional cost to you, going from 15/2 to 25/3. This will remain the base speed of your service moving forward.

2. All of our 19 million Xfinity WiFi hotspots across the country will be available to you for free during this time, beyond the 40 hours that you already have. We want to ensure that you can use those hotspots for as long as you need to be connected.

3. We're pausing our data plan so you can use your service as much as you need to during this time. With so many people working and educating from home, we want our customers to be able to access the Internet and stay connected without thinking about data plans. If you have kids, we want you to know that they can study, stream, and learn virtually, as much as they need to while schools are closed.

4. We will not disconnect your internet service or charge late fees if you can't pay your bills during this time period. Contact us and let us know you can't pay your bill, and our teams will offer flexible payment options and can help you find other solutions.

Comcast is doing everything we can to help people stay connected during this extraordinary time. It's vital for all families to stay connected to the Internet - for education, work, and health reasons. That's why we're happy to offer you a number of great valued packages to make sure you have the resources you need to be safe and connected. Please visit https://www.xfinity.com/learn/offers

For a full list of most commonly asked questions please visit Get Help.

Offer ends December 31, 2020. Restrictions apply. Limited to Internet Essentials service from Comcast for new residential customers meeting certain eligibility criteria. Offer limited to two months of complimentary Internet Essentials service (taxes excluded). After promotion, regular rates apply. Internet Essentials current rate is $9.95/mo. (subject to change).Taxes extra. Pricing subject to change. Advertised price applies to a single outlet. Actual speeds may vary and are not guaranteed. For factors affecting speed visit w ww.xfinity.com/networkmanagement .

If a customer is determined to be no longer eligible for the Internet Essentials program, regular rates will apply to the selected Internet service. Subject to Internet Essentials program terms and conditions. May not be combined with other offers. Call 1-855-846-8376 for restrictions and complete details. © 2020 Comcast. All rights reserved.

If you had scheduled an appointment for an Xfinity tech to install Internet Essentials services, please know there have been some changes to our process due to COVID-19.

We are following the advice of our government and public health officials. To limit close contact with others as much as possible, for everyone's safety, we will be dropping off your equipment at your door. This will include everything you need, including the equipment that was ordered and any cords and cables.

The video below will walk you through the installation process.

You may qualify for Internet Essentials if:

You are eligible for public assistance programs such as the National School Lunch Program, Housing Assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI and others.

You live in an area where Comcast Internet service is available.

You are not an existing Xfinity Internet customer and have not subscribed to Comcast Internet within the last 90 days.

You have no outstanding debt to Comcast that is less than one year old. Households with outstanding debt more than one year old may still be eligible.*

*Due to the Coronavirus emergency, households with outstanding debt owed to Comcast may be eligible for Internet Essentials. We are waiving this qualification if you apply and are approved by 12/31/20. After 12/31/20, standard eligibility rules apply.

Signing up is easy and fast from your mobile device. You may be instantly approved!

We'll review your completed application and let you know through SMS, email or snail mail if you are approved. If we need documents the fastest way to submit is to take a picture with your phone and upload right in the application!

If approved, you could have a home Internet connection in 5-7 business days. Use the step-by-step guide included with your Internet equipment (which includes a modem and WiFi router) to set up your service.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2018 Interactive by Jenny Eather

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Interactive, animated maths dictionary for kids with over 600 common math terms explained in simple language. Math glossary with math definitions, examples, math practice interactives, mathematics activities and math calculators. © Jenny Eather 2001-2015.

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Students, Families and Staff Resources Support Hotlines

Baltimore County DSS: 410-887-TIME

Baltimore County Crisis Response: 410-931-2214

Maryland Food Bank: 410-737-8282

United Way: 211 https://211md.org/

Crisis text line: Text the word "HOME" to 741741 for free 24 hour support

Maryland Suicide and Crisis Hotline: 1.800.422.0009

National Suicide Prevention Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK

Spanish

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Students, Families and Staff Resources Support Hotlines Baltimore County DSS: 410-887-TIME Baltimore County Crisis Response: 410-931-2214 Maryland Food Bank: 410-737-8282 United Way: 211 https://211md.org/ Crisis text line: Text the word "HOME" to 741741 for free 24 hour support Maryland Suicide and Crisis Hotline: 1.800.422.0009 National Suicide Prevention Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK Spanish

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ABCya! • ABCya! • Learning Games and Apps for Kids

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Educational games for grades PreK through 6 that will keep kids engaged and having fun. Topics include math, reading, typing, just-for-fun logic games… and more!

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Baltimore County Pubic Library

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Browse our collection of e-books, audiobooks, e-magazines and streaming movies available for a range of mobile devices.