During a public health crisis, implementing just-in-time training (JITT) allows for critical information to reach persons in order to create understanding and appropriate responses to the urgent situation. To assure efficacy of the JITT curriculum, it must be applicable for diverse communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Faith-based communities have their own practices and traditions that may result in confusion of how to implement such religious actions while abiding by public health guidelines.

Aligning values and beliefs with the JITT curriculum’s objectives may render a more significant behavior change in the faith-based community that promotes public health messaging during the health crisis. In this narrative, we describe how a JITT curriculum centered on COVID-19 was implemented across diverse faith-based communities, and how they aligned with each religion’s values.

We implemented a JITT for COVID-19 information within a Catholic school system, two Jewish schools, and one Islamic school, with messaging around the public health crisis tailored to align with and respect religious context and traditions of these Abrahamic religions. In practice, the specific JITT curriculum aligned with these Abrahamic faiths’ social teachings, values, and beliefs taken from crucial faith-based text. This alignment allowed for the implementation and delivery of the COVID-19 curriculum in faith-based organizations, and their respective schools, across the United States, as well as several countries.

The medical, public health, and religious community partnership emphasized a blueprint for aligning public health objectives with specific cultural and religious beliefs for understanding and acceptance of JITT and its critical information.