Healthy Kids Articles and Resources
For over twenty years, I have been creating articles and resources to promote a better understanding of the health and educational needs of students with asthma and other chronic health conditions. They are created to improve educational and environmental health policies and practices so that schools are safe for every child's healthy development. Many have been updated since their original publication.
I would be happy to help you find resources that would be most helpful to address your immediate needs as well as long term concerns.
To order items from the list below, please contact me: healthykids@rcn.com
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❏ A Full-Time School Nurse in Every School!
❏ A Parent's Right to Know
❏ A School Environmental Health Report Card
❏ A School EpiPen Policy That Saves Lives.
❏ A Team Approach to Indoor Air Quality, One School's Experience. Breathless Pipeline, Breathless, Inc. March/April, 1994
❏ Advocacy for Students with Food Allergies.
❏ An Environmental Defense Plan, Presentation at Healthy Schools: Designing, Renovating and Maintaining Our School Buildings. Worcester, MA 6/2/99.
❏ Asthma and Allergy Photo/Info Card. Alert teachers, substitutes to students' medications, precautions, and emergency plan.
❏ Asthma at School: A Comprehensive Care and Advocacy Plan. Alliance Newsletter, American Academy of Allergy & Immunology (AAAI), 9/92.
❏ Asthma at School: Getting Formal. When to develop a written plan and use federal and state laws.
❏ Back to School with Asthma and Allergies. Fall, 1989. School-Parent-Child Communication.
❏ Chemical Security is Community Security
❏ Child Wins Right to Nebulizer Treatments; Parent reimbursed for lost work time. 1994.
❏ Coaching the Parent Advocate, Alliance Newsletter, AAAI, 9/94.
❏ Cockroach Control: Using Integrated Pest Management* AAFA/NE Bulletin, 96.
❏ Cooperative Care: Where Do We Start? Checklists for parents, teachers, nurses and administrators.
❏ Creating a Culture of Sentinel Lions
❏ Do You Know a Healthy Kids Hero?
❏ Effective School Leadership is vital for the safety and educational success of students with food allergies.
❏ Eight Steps to Asthma Risk Reduction in Schools
❏ Enhancing the Comprehensive School Health Agenda. Best resources for writing student health plans.
❏ Environmental Disasters Don't Have To Be Educational Disasters
❏ Environmental Health and Safety Problems Reported in Massachusetts' Public Schools by Massachusetts Agencies, February 2006
❏ Ethical/Legal Challenges: Health Management in the Schools. (Why Children Need Advocates Presentation Outline, Children, Parents, Professionals and the State: Ethical, Clinical and Legal issues in Health Care for Children, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Cambridge, MA 9/97.
❏ Exercise and Asthma. Sidelines, National Youth Sports Foundation for the Prevention of Athletic Injuries, Summer, 93.
❏ Fighting for Air: Students with Environmentally-Triggered Health Conditions, EDLAW Briefing Paper, June/August, 2000, Vol X, Issues 4-5 (15 pgs.)
❏ Finding Daycare for Your Child with Asthma: A Step-by-Step Approach, Asthma Magazine, July/August 2000.
❏ Finding Solutions to Problems of Asthma at School. Unfair policies and practices? 1989.
❏ For Safety's Sake: Planning for Students with Food Allergies. Comprehensive safety and emergency plan.
❏ Forced Exercise: What Can Parents Do?
❏ Fun Ways to Prepare Your Food Allergic Child for School. Games, Activities and Art Projects.
❏ Getting Off to a Good Start. * New school planning for children with chronic health conditions. Family-Centered Care Network, ACCH, Summer, 93.
❏ Giving Carpets a Second Thought, Part I: When Health Takes Precedence over Décor. Asthma Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2000.
❏ Giving Carpets a Second Thought, Part II: The Effects of Carpeting in Our Schools. Asthma Magazine, Jan/Apr, 2001.
❏ Growing Up with Asthma. Taking Charge. HealthlinesUSAY 1992.
❏ Guide to Protecting Vulnerable Students in "Sick" Schools, for the Healthy Schools Network.
❏ Having a Bad Air Day? An environmental self-defense plan for teachers, 1997.
❏ He Looks Fine to US. Why are you so worried? Anticipating comments from school staff. Why Didn't He Tell Me? The Importance of Good Parent-Child Communication. Suggestions for preventing, recognizing and coping with school-produced anxieties.
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2003: Joellen Lawson
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2004: Irene Wilkenfeld
❏ Healthy Schools Heroes 2005: Dr. James Kaufman, Laboratory Safety Institute; Christopher Erzinger, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; and Monona Rossol, Arts, Crafts and Theatre Safety.
❏ Healthy Schools Hero: Jeffrey C. May
❏ Healthy Schools Heroes 2006 Westborough, MA
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2007: Diane Ethier, Pomfret Center, Connecticut
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2008: Bruce Hayes, Allyson Kelley, Matthew Langenfeld, Brian Spangler, Bonnie Rouse
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2008 Nominee Barbara Lee Foster
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2008 Nominee Dr. Jack Gerlovich
❏ Healthy Schools Hero 2008 Nominee Dwight Peavey, PhD
❏ Healthy Schools Heroes 2009 Nominations Sought
❏ Healthy Kids Heroes Book Shelf and Recommended Links
❏ Healthy Schools Life Savers' References and Resources
❏ High Performance Kids Need Good Air Quality at School
❏ How Asthma Friendly Is Your School? (Self-Assessment of policies, practices and facility conditions.)
❏ How fragrance-free policies can lead to healthy breathing and high performance at school.
❏ How Healthy Is Your School? The American Journal of Asthma and Allergy for Pediatricians, 10/90.
❏ IAQ Experts to the Rescue? Looking for IAQ heroes that engineer school environments to protect children.
❏ IAQ: What Teachers Should Know. What Teachers Should Do?
❏ Individualized Health Plans: A Strategy for Achieving Educational Equity, Coalition Quarterly, The National Network of Parent Centers, Fall/Winter 92-93.
❏ Indoor Air Quality: Does Your School Make the Grade? Asthma Magazine, 9/97.
❏ Information for Parents. Using Individualized Health Plans for Students with Asthma and Allergies. What is an IHP? What if a nurse isn't there? Should I sign a waiver?
❏ Inhalers in School: Guidelines for Self-Management, 1989. A model program.
❏ Interpreting Doctor Talk for Schools. Write effective medication authorizations/physical education guidelines.
❏ Is Your School an Asthma Monster?
❏ It's 11:30 a.m. Do You Know Where Your School Nurse Is? Asthma Magazine, 1/98.
❏ Learning about Chemical Exposures (Stages of Illness and Disability Chart.)
❏ Lessons of the 1937 Texas School Explosion
❏ Liability Waivers and Food Allergies. Liability releases, risk management issues.
❏ Managing Food Allergies at School: Risk Management/Risk Reduction for Students with Food Allergies. Worksheets. Goals and principles.
❏ Managing Food Allergies. Sample letters for notifying parents of classmates about food allergy safety rules. DOs and DON'Ts. .
❏ March 18: A Day to Remember the New London School Disaster and Learn its Lessons.
❏ Meeting the Challenge of Disrupted Attendance: Planning for Academic and Social Continuity. A 504 Plan Meeting Agenda for Students who are Missing School.
❏ Missing School Time? Filling the Gaps. 1992.
❏ Nebulizers in the Classroom. A preschool values parent-teacher relationships and safety for students with asthma and severe allergies. Young Children, National Association of Educators of Young Children, 1/94.
❏ New Law + Concerned Parents = Healthier Schools
❏ New Tools for Sick Schools A Modest Proposal
❏ Objectives and Indicators of Educational Equity. Family Centered Care Network, ACCH, 93.
❏ Overcoming Obstacles to Health Management at School. What are my child's rights? What if my child's needs are not being met?
❏ Parent-School Conference agenda for students with special health needs.
❏ Persistently Dangerous Schools
❏ Pesticides At School? On the Playground? Put Integrated Pest Management on Your School Safety Agenda. Safety is Elementary, The Laboratory Safety Workshop, Spring 95.
❏ Pesticides vs. Children's Health
❏ Play It Safe: Introduction to Theater Safety. Safety Lessons for Young Performers. (Video Review)
❏ Poisoning Prevention Week: Stop Inhalant Hazards
❏ Preventing School Absences, 1992.
❏ Raising School Health Standards. A PTA's story.
❏ Raising Standards for School Health: What Do Parents Want?
❏ RX for Sick Schools, (Book Review) The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide, Monona Rossol.
❏ Rx for Sick Schools: An Environmental Action Kit. Ideas for an IAQ Team, school walk-through and environmental practices checklists, plus resources.
❏ Sample Physician Letter to Protect Students from Environmentally Triggered Illness at School.
❏ Sane Cockroach Control
❏ Say No to Pesticides: Unseen hazards on athletic fields, Sidelines, National Youth Sports Safety Foundation, Fall 95.
❏ School Zone: Clearing the Air, Indoor air quality advocacy advice and references. AAAAI News, Fall 95.
❏ Self-Care at School. Should Students Carry their Own Inhaler? It Depends! Sample Student/School Inhaler Self-Management Agreement. The Peak Flow Gazette, AAFA/WA, Summer 98.
❏ Staying Healthy in School. The MA Report, 8/90. Legal rulings clarify rights for students with asthma.
❏ Strengthening the School Nurse-Student Partnership for Students with Environmentally-Triggered Conditions (Nursing Diagnosis; Student and School Goals/Outcomes; Nursing Interventions; Health Protection Checklist; Improving the School's Environmental IQ Action Plan; References and Resources)
❏ Strengthening Your School's Response to Explosives and Other Hazardous Materials v. 2008
❏ Student Volunteers At Risk In Gulf Coast and What Students And Other Young Volunteers Can Do To Help Without Risking Their Health
❏ Students with Chronic Health Conditions: The School's Obligations and Liability Concerns.
❏ Students with Food Allergies: What Do the Laws Say? Food Allergy News. 8/92
❏ Testimony in support of An Act Relative to Healthy Schools and Public Buildings; An Act to Reduce Asthma by Using Safer Alternatives to Cleaning Products, April 10, 2006
❏ The Americans with Disabilities Act: How Does it Affect You? Advance, AAFA, 9/93.
❏ The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide. (Book Review)
❏ The Asthma Friendly School
❏ The Food Allergy News, 8/94.
❏ The Individualized Health Plan. IHP for planning to meet students' health and educational goals.
❏ To My Teachers and Coaches. Exercise Guidelines. Exercise and Asthma Resource List.
❏ Translating Rights into Realities, Using the IHP. Model goals and objectives. Alliance Newsletter, AAAI, 3/93.
❏ Update Your School Chemical Hygiene Plan for National Arson Awareness Week 2005
❏ Use Health-Based Criteria for Indoor Air Quality in Schools
❏ Using Medicines Safely - Rx for Busy Families. How to coordinate medication plans at home, school and play.
❏ Wanted: School IPM Ambassadors. Bring the benefits of intelligent pest management to your school.
❏ What Did You Learn in School Today? What if you were a student with a vision problem and they locked up your glasses in the nurse’s desk? A parable.
❏ What To Do if Animals in School Make your Child Sick, The MA Report, 1993.
❏ When is a Student at Educational Risk? Matrix for assessing a student's risk in the school environment. .
❏ Why School Nurses? aaacn Viewpoint, American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses, 1/96.
❏ Working Together: Parent IAQ Heroes Success Stories.
❏ Workshop Discussion Starters: What would you do? Cases raise questions about student and teacher needs and responsibilities.
❏ You Can Still Turn Blue In A Green School
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