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NEW! California's Pandemic Flu Checklists for Schools. These checklists provide assistance to local educational agencies, childcare agencies, and preschools in preparing for pandemic influenza.

NEW! Contra Costa County Pandemic Influenza Action Toolkit. The kit is designed to provide schools with practical tools needed to prepare staff, students and parents for a pandemic flu outbreak, which might require schools to have back-up plans for alternative ways of holding class. The tools include preparedness and planning information, fact sheets on avian flu symptoms, prevention and health care tips, guidelines on when schools might need to be closed and other information.

Pandemic Flu Planning Checklist. A checklist based on information from the federal government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help you and your family prepare for the possibility of a flu pandemic. Click here for CDC's Pandemic Flu information, updates, and newsletters.

National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Safe & Healthy Schools is the only national organization giving voice and adding value to the nation's State Boards of Education. A non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.

American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, the American Lung Association® today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health.

EPA's Resources and Environmental Programs for Schools is a strong advocate for creating and maintaining healthy and safe school environments. For this reason, it has established several school-based voluntary programs to address a variety of environmental factors that schools encounter each day. These voluntary, school-based programs promote and raise awareness for the importance of creating and maintaining healthy and safe indoor and outdoor school environments for students and staff. Also see: Managing Mold and Moisture and Resource for Urban School Districts.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center. Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other Federal partners, the Resource Center provides current information developed by Federal agencies or with Federal support pertaining to youth violence. A gateway for professionals, parents, youth and other interested individuals, the Resource Center offers the latest tools to facilitate discussion with children, to resolve conflicts nonviolently, to stop bullying, to prevent teen suicide, and to end violence committed by and against young people. Resources include fact sheets, best practices documents, funding and conference announcements, statistics, research bulletins, surveillance reports, and profiles of promising programs.

School Violence Prevention. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative is an unprecedented collaborative grant program designed to prevent violence and substance abuse among our Nation’s youth, schools, and communities. The Initiative is supported by three Federal agencies—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (through SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services), the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Justice.

Getting Results: Developing Safe and Healthy Kids is a collection of documents designed to help California school districts use research-based strategies in designing and implementing their alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention programs, as well as their youth violence prevention programs. Getting Results accomplishes this by engaging both leading researchers and practitioners in critically examining current research findings and their implications for schools.

Asthma and Schools consolidates information about asthma-related resources for school personnel working with grades K-12. The simple, searchable database links to educational materials, medical information, websites, and other resources useful for anyone who works in a school serving children and youth.