SADS Awareness Month 2008
Back-to-School Checklist
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SADS Canada Conference!
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Our friends at SADS Canada are holding a conference on September 20th about Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young. To learn more please visit our website at www.StopSADS.org
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Greetings!
It's back-to-school time and one of our goals for Awareness Month and at the
SADS Foundation is to provide parents and volunteers with the information they
need to create safer schools for kids with SADS conditions. Below is a
step-by-step list of ways that you can get involved this month and help make
your school a SADS Safe School!
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School is now in
session!
How to make your school environment
as safe as possible for your SADS child:
First, ask to meet with
your principal, school nurse and possibly the 504 (what's a 504?) plan people.
At the meeting:
1. Ensure that there is an Individualized School Health Care Plan in place. You can use the SADS version or create a plan with the help
of your doctor or school nurse and then present it to your principal and
school nurse.
2. Ask the principal what the school's Emergency Medical Plan is and whether all staff are trained on how to use it.
3. Find out if your
school has an AED, a plan for its use and whether all appropriate staff are
trained to use one (like your child's teachers, coaches, playground aide)
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Make a plan to ensure that all above recommendations are in place. See our new
SADS Back to School Checklist for
more information on how to make sure your school is a SADS Safe
School
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Here at the SADS Foundation
we have many ways that parents and volunteers can get involved and spread the
word about SADS conditions. Click on the link below for details or check out
our website, www.stopsads.org If you have any
questions, concerns, ideas or are in need of materials we'd love to help! Give
us a call at 1-800-786-7723 or email Olivia at olivia@sads.org
I want to volunteer!
Thanks
for your help!
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Olivia Daubin
Awareness and Education
SADS Foundation
To remove your name from the weekly SADS Awareness updates but not
all SADS emails click here Olivia and type 'remove' in the subject
line.
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