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ASD to offer H1N1 vaccine for students

October 22, 2009

Contact: Heather Sawyer
Executive Director, Communications
Phone: 907-742-4150
Fax: 907-742-4175
Web: www.asdk12.org

The Anchorage School District is offering the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine to all students. The vaccine is strictly voluntary and will only be administered to students who have a permission slip signed by their parent or guardian. There is no cost for the vaccine.

Each school will be sending a packet of information and a permission slip to their students’ homes and has posted them on the ASD Web site at www.asdk12.org/EPrep/flu.asp. The permission slip and vaccine information statements have been translated into five languages for non-English-speaking families. Students MUST return a signed and completed Consent and Screening form (permission slip) to their school to receive the vaccine. No permission slip, no vaccine.

This vaccine is for ASD students only and students MUST attend the vaccination clinics scheduled at their own school. The vaccine will not be given to parents, siblings, or any other family members unless they are students at the same school and have their own signed permission slip.

Parents may not attend the vaccination clinics. Based on the results of the parent interest forms sent out last month, ASD anticipates administering as many as 3,200 vaccines in a single day. This means the clinics must be run as efficiently as possible and maintain a constant flow of students. There will not be scheduled vaccination times for each student. Rather, students must be available to report to the clinic with their class as soon as the clinic is ready for them. Schools will be unable to tell parents the time at which their child will receive the vaccine and cannot use valuable clinic time to wait for parents to arrive and be matched with their child. In addition, ASD’s experience with this spring’s varicella vaccination clinics has shown that most children are calmer and less emotional when receiving injections if their parents are not around. If parents feel that they need to be with their child when the vaccine is administered, those families should get the vaccine from their health care provider, a local pharmacy or one of the public vaccination clinics being offered by the Municipality of Anchorage.

The ASD vaccination clinics are scheduled to begin on November 2. Each school has been given its clinic date; however, these dates are subject to change based on vaccine availability. Should the clinic date need to change, parents will be notified.

For more information on H1N1, including prevention tips and additional vaccine information, please visit www.asdk12.org/EPrep/flu.asp.

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