School Years - Healthy Living
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Questions Your Child Will Want You to Ask: Are you keeping me up to date with regular childhood checkups and immunizations? Are you taking me to see specialists for specific issues? What do you need to tell the school nurse about my health needs? What if I need to take medications or treatments at school? Are you teaching me to greet and interact with doctors and other medical professionals? Do I know how to ask for help or tell when I am sick or just don’t feel well? Are you helping me understand my disability or healthcare needs and how they affect me as I grow and change? Do I know what is good (food, sleep, exercise) and bad (drugs, smoking) for my body? How are you helping me prepare for and understand puberty? Is there a “File of Life” that describes my health issues in case of an emergency? Is there someone I can talk to if I have emotional issues that I need help to resolve
Health Checkups and Immunizations
Family-to-Family Health Information Center http://www.pacer.org/health/preventive-health.asp
Dental Resources https://portal.ct.gov/DDS/Divisions/Health-Dental-News/DDS-Dental-Newsletter
Deaf and hard of Hearing Resources https://www.dhoh.ct.gov/dhoh/site/default.asp
Finding the Right Health Specialist
US Department of Health & Human Services http://answers.hhs.gov/questions/3308
Husky Health http://www.huskyhealthct.org/provider_lookup.html
Find the Community System Collaborative That Serves You https://portal.ct.gov/DCF/Behavioral-Health-Partnership/Care-Coordination
Teaching Students to Care for Their Health
School Nurse Checklist for Parents https://www.nasn.org/portals/0/releases/2013_Back_to_School_Checklist.pdf
Smart Nutrition Starts Here http://www.nutrition.gov/life-stages/adolescents
Smart Nutrition with the Teen Cookbook
File of Life
File of Life is a voluntary program designed to help your local first responder to quickly obtain in an emergency your medical information. https://portal.ct.gov/DDS/EmergencySafetyManagement/Fire-Safety-and-Emergency-Guidelines/File-of-Life-Program
Bullying
Medline Plus—A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bullying.html
StopBullying.Gov http://www.stopbullying.gov/what-you-can-do/parents/index.html