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The DeForest Area School District is working collaboratively with a variety of agencies to implement our plan for dealing with potential issues related to the current outbreak of H1N1 Influenza. We are continuing efforts to encourage students and staff to frequently and effectively wash hands. Hand washing is one of the best defenses against infection of any type! Parents, please keep children who are ill home until they are healthy enough to be in school with others. We will share current and accurate information as it becomes available. Below you will find links to helpful information about H1N1.
Please contact Ann Higgins, Director of Administrative Services, if you have any questions about the District's plans and response to H1N1. You may also call your health care provider or Public Health--Madison and Dane County at 266-4821. Updates and News Releases from Public Health Officials
and the School District | | | | 2/3/10 Update: Who needs a second dose of H1N1? Children age 9 and under. More information is available on the Public Health Madison & Dane County website (in English, Spanish and Hmong). | | | 1/20/10 Update: Information for parents where you can access the second dose of H1N1 vaccine for children age 9 and under.  Information from Public Health | | | 1/5/10 Update: H1N1 vaccine clinics for DASD students in February
The school-based H1N1 influenza vaccination clinics will resume for the
DeForest Area School District in February. Both nasal and injection
forms will be available. Each school will be communicating details with families in the coming days and weeks. Please watch for this important information!
The schedule is as follows:
February 3, 2010 - DeForest Area Middle School & DeForest Area High School
February 4, 2010 - Eagle Point, Yahara, and Morrisonville Elementary Schools
Families whose school has already sent consent forms to homes: If you
sent them back to the school, these will be used. If you have not
returned them to school, please do so at your earliest convenience. If
your child has had a vaccine for H1N1 since you returned the consent
form, please contact the school to withdraw your consent.
Families whose school has not yet sent consent forms to homes: They
will be sent home this week.
Again, please watch for specific information from your child's school. | | | 12/16/09 Update: School-based clinics will resume for DASD in February. The tentative schedule (based on availability of vaccine) is as follows: - Feb. 3, 2010 - DeForest Area Middle School & DeForest Area High School
- Feb. 4, 2010 - Eagle Point, Yahara, and Morrisonville Elementary Schools
Families whose school has already sent consent forms to homes: If you sent them back to the school, these will be used. If you have not returned them to school, please do so at your earliest convenience. If your child has had a vaccine for H1N1 since you returned the consent form, please contact the school to withdraw your consent. : They will be mailed in early January. Families whose school has not yet sent consent forms to homes | | | 12/10/09 Update: School-based clinics will resume (including Windsor Elementary School's second dose). However, if Dane County finds that they again do not have enough vaccine, our District may reconsider this decision. Parents, if you have already signed the permission form for your child to receive the vaccination, you will not need to do so again. However, you will receive another letter when the clinics are scheduled asking if your child's status has changed (if he/she has received the vaccine since the form was completed). We will continue to provide updates as they are available. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our District's school nurses, Laurie and Kathy. | | | Dane County Targeted Community H1N1 Vaccination Clinic
Monday, December 14, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Exhibition Hall at the Alliant Energy Center
More information | | | School based clinics are still on temporary hold while Dane County Public Health accrue adequate supplies of vaccine. In the meantime, they are focusing on using their vaccine to immunize those most at risk. Please see attached flyer in English and Spanish about two large targeted clinics they will be holding on November 17 & 18. These are for specific target groups only, as you will see on the flyer. 11/16/09 This information is also available on the Dane County Public Health Department's website. | | | | ALL SCHOOLS: All vaccination clinics for students are cancelled. We are working very closely with Dane County Public Health and they are working with other health care providers to determine the best plan to get the greatest number of high risk individuals protected from H1N1. Updates will be posted on this site as we receive them. 11/11/09 | | | Windsor Elementary School - October 23 Vaccincation Clinic
As of Oct. 22, nasal version of vaccination only. Shot version of vaccine at later time.
Information was send/emailed to parents this week. | | Tentative Schedule for School Vaccination Clinics for Students (10-7-09)
Information from Public Health - Madison & Dane County | | | Message from the School Nurses (9-25-09)
Message from school nurses Laurie Krause and Kathy LaFeber | | | H1N1 Informational Letter (fall 2009)
From District Administrator Jon Bales and Administrative Services Director Ann Higgins | |
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