Mitigation, Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
- American Red Cross
- Preparedness at School (Outside Source)
- Preparedness at Home (Outside Source)
- California Department of Education: Frequently asked questions and answers about pandemic influenza
- Safe Schools: A Planning Guide for Action, 2002 Edition
The California Department of Education provides a two-component model and step-by-step guidance for schools to develop a comprehensive safe school plan. It also reviews the legal requirements and the benefits of safety planning to help schools annually revise and amend their safe school plan.
- Safe Schools Planning
Information for safe schools planning, school safety issues, and prevention and intervention programs and strategies.
- California Healthy Kids Resource Center (Outside Source)
Provides free loans of instructional resources to school personnel, including materials for programs to teach basic hygiene in the classroom.
- Crisis Response Box (PDF; 214MB; 18pp.).
Developed in partnership with the California Department of Education and the California Attorney General's Office.
- Disaster Planning: Self-Assessment Guide for Child Care Centers and Family Child Care Homes (PDF; Outside Source)
Available from the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (Outside Source)
Provides planning information for all types of emergencies and disasters, including pandemic flu. (Outside Source)
- National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education (Outside Source)
- Orange County Department of Education Emergency Preparedness: Avian Influenza (Outside Source)
- Contra Costa County Health Department’s Pandemic Flu School Action Kit (Outside Source)
Provides planning information, checklists, sample letters in English and Spanish, and media messages.
- School Emergency Response using SEMS at Districts and Sites (PDF; Outside Source)
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services provides guidelines for planning and training in compliance with the Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS).
- Tacoma/Pierce County Health Department, Avian (Bird)/Pandemic Flu School Preparedness (Outside Source)
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Information on pandemic influenza
- Information for individuals and families (Outside Source)
- Information for schools, child care centers/preschools, and families (Outside Source)
- U.S. Department of Education (Outside Source)
Provides information for schools on planning for pandemic.
Recovery
- American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, Teachers’ Guidelines for Crisis Response (PDF; Outside Source)
- National Association of School Psychologists, Helping Children Deal with Tragic Events in Unsettling Times: Tips for Parents and Teachers (Outside Source)
- National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, A Checklist for School Personnel to Evaluate and Implement the Mental Health Component of Your School Crisis and Emergency Plan (PDF; Outside Source)
- The Institute for Trauma and Stress at The New York University Child Student Center, Caring for Kids After Trauma and Death: A guide for Parents and Professionals (PDF; Outside Source)
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control, Coping with a Traumatic Event (PDF; Outside Source)
Infectious Disease Control Measures
State and National Resources
- California Department of Health Services, Pandemic Information (Outside Source)
- Healthy Kids, Healthy Care: Parents as Partners in Promoting Healthy and Safe Child Care (Outside Source)
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Information about Injectable flu vaccine and the new intranasal Flu Mist (Outside Source)
- Seasonal Flu (Outside Source), includes information about why children or teenagers with flu-like symptoms should NOT take aspirin.
- Key Facts About the Flu (Outside Source), a fact sheet including information about flu symptoms, how flu spreads, and how to prevent flu.
- "Stop the Spread of Germs" posters:
- Cover Your Cough (Outside Source)
- Posters and Other Materials (Outside Source)
Surveillance System
State, National, and International Resources
- U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Avian influenza (Outside Source)
- Influenza (Outside Source)
- World Health Organization
- Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza (Outside Source)
- Avian influenza (Outside Source)
School Closure Recommendations
- California Department of Health Services, California Conference of Local Health Officers (Outside Source)
Contact your local health officer to learn who in your area has legal authority to close child care programs if there is a flu emergency.
