Jonathan F. (Jon) Duncan, Wednesday, January 11, 2012 | Filed under: Food Allergies
The National School Boards Association, through funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, produced and released a new resource regarding food allergies. It's titled "Safe at School and Ready to Learn: a Comprehensive Policy Guide for Protecting Students with Life-Threatening Food Allergies" and you can review it
here. The guide contains recommendations for policies, best practices, medication protocols, communication channels, and prevention/evaluation strategies. It also contains other helpful tools including a checklist, glossary and list of allergy-related resources. As schools continue to see increased allergy activity, and related costs/exposure, this guide could be a great help to administrators and educators alike.