ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 global emergency has exposed ecosocial problems that have negative impacts on people and the planet. Like other ecosocial crises, COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted on vulnerable people. Global state and capitalist institutions have responded differently, with many failing to protect and help the most vulnerable, particularly in the United States. Inspired by the principles of mutual aid, communities in the United States have organised new social services that function as counter-institutions to better meet local need, organise community, and protest ecosocial injustice and institutional failures. This chapter reviews these efforts and their implications for community social work.
