Mitigation, Prevention, Preparedness, and Response
- American Red Cross: Preparedness During Swine Flu Outbreak (Outside Source)
- California Department of Public Health
Information about swine flu outbreak in California.
- 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)
- 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. 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 Public Health Pandemic Flu 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
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Swine Influenza (Flu) (Outside Source)
- Avian Influenza (Outside Source)
- Influenza (Outside Source)
- World Health Organization
- Swine Influenza (Outside Source)
- Ten things you need to know about pandemic influenza (Outside Source)
- Avian Influenza (Outside Source)
School Closure/Student Dismissal Recommendations
- California Health Officers Directory (PDF; Outside Source)
Contact your local health officer to learn who in your area has legal authority to close schools and child care programs and/or dismiss students if there is a flu emergency.
