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New NYSCSH Health Services Resource Specialist Is Ready to Assist YOU!
7/25/17 Melissa Trau has accepted the position of NYSCSH Resource Specialist. Click here to meet Melissa!
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Speak Up At School - Resource for Teaching Tolerance
7/21/17 Many of the questions we received by the magazine column “Ask Teaching Tolerance” are from educators seeking advice about how to respond when someone—a student, a colleague, even a parent—uses biased language or stereotypes in school. In response they have created a resource to help educators tackle this issue.
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Soon-To-Be Implemented Federal Wellness Policy Requirements
7/21/17 How Aligned are District Wellness Policies with Soon-To-Be Implemented Federal Wellness Policy Requirements?
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SAMHSA Releases Report on Adolescent Inhalant Use
7/20/17 This report highlights facts about adolescent inhalant use and types of inhalants commonly used by teens.
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Social-Emotional Learning Positively Affects Students Even Years Later
7/17/17 A new meta-analysis finds that programs that teach students how to recognize their emotions, solve problems, and form healthy relationships may continue to show positive benefits for students months, or even years, after they complete them.
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New Resource: Allergy & Anaphylaxis: A Practical Guide for Schools and Families
7/17/17 This new Allergy & Asthma Network resource addresses basic allergy information, school safety guidance, and educational resources for student & staff instruction. Written for schools and school nurses by a school nurse!
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State of Play Report Released
7/17/17 A newly-released report about youth sports participation in Western New York shows a lack of physical activity by many young people. But it also offers ideas on how to get kids more interested and involved with sports. It begins with a question for the children: "What do YOU want?"
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Researchers Find Link Between Food Allergies and Childhood Anxiety
7/16/17 Researchers studied 80 pediatric patients ages 4-12 years, 8 years old on average, with and without food allergy and their caregivers from urban pediatric outpatient clinics in the Bronx, New York. They controlled for an asthma diagnosis in the children, as anxiety and mood disorders are more prevalent among youth with asthma and especially more common in low socioeconomic minority children.
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New Webinar Series for Pink Book-Live and Recorded Events Available
7/15/17 This online series of 15 webinars provides an overview of the principles of vaccination, general recommendations, immunization strategies, and specific information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines that prevent them.
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Prescribing Opioids: CDC Vital Signs Report Just Released
7/7/17 In 2015, the amount of opioids prescribed was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for 3 weeks. The new CDC Vital Signs Report provides data and resources you can use to educate yourself and others.
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Summertime Sports – Without the Sports Drinks
6/30/17 Recently, the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity published a paper that details the interim results of an attempt to redefine what is “normal” when it comes to sugary drink consumption in children and families.(Voices for Health Kids Action Center Post)
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Common Antimicrobials Help Patients Recover From MRSA Abscesses
6/29/17 In new findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that two common, inexpensive antimicrobials can help patients heal from MRSA skin abscesses.
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NYSASN's 29th Annual School Nurse Orientation- Do You Know About SNO?
6/22/17 Openings are still available at NYSASN's 29th Annual School Nurse Orientation, August 14-17, 2017, at The Lodge at Welch Allyn in Skaneateles, New York.
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A Dynamic Duo Leaves a Legacy Of Support
6/21/0/17 Debbie Karpowich and Gail Wold are 50 percent of the entire team at the NYSCSH. On June 29, both will be retiring from the Center to go on to the next chapters in their lives. Together, they have given over three decades worth of service in support of school nurses in New York State.
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Shootings Kill Or Injure At Least 19 US Children Each Day (CDC)
6/19/2017 According to a report from the CDC that was published today in the journal Pediatrics, shootings kill 19 US children each day. The analysis of 2002-14 U.S. data is billed as the most comprehensive study on the topic and it underscores why researchers view gun violence as a public health crisis.
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New CDC Resource Can Help Prevent Youth Violence
6/17/17 CDC’s new resource, A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors, outlines science-based strategies states and communities can use to stop and prevent youth violence including bullying.
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Don't Be Fooled—E-cig Aerosol Is Not Harmless for Kids
6/16/17 According to a new CDC study, 40% of U.S. adults believe that children's exposure to secondhand aerosol from e-cigarettes causes only some or little harm. 5% think it causes no harm. This misperception may be risking the health of those who breathe this aerosol, especially children.
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AIDS.gov is now HIV.gov
6/20/17 HHS has officially changed the name of AIDS.gov, the federal government’s leading source for information about HIV, to HIV.gov. The shift to HIV.gov is proactive and inclusive, and it sends a strong, supportive message to the 1.1 million people across America who are living with HIV.
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Ray and the Sunbeatables™: A Sun Safety Curriculum Resource
6/14/17 A free sun safety program for preschoolers, kindergartners, and first grade students created and developed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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June is National Great Outdoors Month
The CDC has created info-graphic's to encourage children to take a break from TV and video games and go outside to be active.
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The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Prevention Week
National Prevention Week is an annual health observance dedicated to increasing public awareness of, and action around, substance abuse and mental health issues.
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NYS State Board of Regents Releases Draft Plan for Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
The state Board of Regents has released the draft plan for complying with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. The plan expands measures for school accountability and student success, and requires school- level improvement plans for the lowest performing schools.
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Update on Meridian's Voluntary Worldwide Recall of Epi-Pen Auto-Injector
Provides a Step by Step Process to deal with recalled Epi-Pen Auto-Injectors
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AIDS Institute Promotes STD Awareness Month
April is STD Awareness Month and this year we are tackling the resurgence of syphilis. Primary and secondary syphilis rates are the highest they have been in more than 20 years. Between 2010 and 2015 in New York State, the number of people newly infected with syphilis has increased by more than 100%.
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136.6 Epinephrine Auto-Injector Has Been Revised
This regulation addresses the requirements needed for schools or school districts to train unlicensed school personnel to carry and administer epinephrine auto-injectors (EAI) to students or staff with symptoms of anaphylaxis on-site at school, whether or not they have had previous symptoms or do not have their own EAI available.
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