School District of Denmark Pandemic Influenza Plan

PREPAREDNESS RESPONSE RECOVERY Occurs from now through a confirmed Time period during outbreak Activation of this stage to be determined outbreak of a pandemic. (national or local) by health officials Policies Policies Policies Function Action Guidelines Action Guidelines Action Guideline Resources Resources Resources Provide education to staff on No policy Continue providing education AlertNow Provide information to staff Health pandemic flu plan, possibly at Plan draft to staff on pandemic flu. Web Page on the extent of the And the August in-service, staff Mailings pandemic. Evaluate Wellness meetings or on PDT days. News/Media effectiveness of pandemic Klaubauf/Weller plan. Send ill students and staff Staff Continue sending ill students Continue sending ill home as necessary. guidelines in and staff home as necessary. students and staff home as place? necessary. Student guidelines? (check handbooks) Provide education to families Through Continue to provide education AlertNow Provide educational about pandemic flu and the website or to families about pandemic flu materials to all students and school’s pandemic flu plan. pamphlet. and the school’s pandemic flu families, including recovery Weller/Committee Develop with plan. from pandemic, common Brown Principals/Klaubauf/Buhr symptoms of loss and grief, County and constructive ways to Health Dept. cope with stress. District Crisis Team Provide seasonal flu Newsletters Provide education to family, immunization clinics for staff. Web Page students and staff on the Provide seasonal flu possibility of reoccurring immunization clinic waves of illness. information to parents, Weller targeting low-income. Weller/Olsen Communicate with parochial schools in the district on the pandemic flu plan. District Office Buhr/Klaubauf Communicate with neighboring school districts to plan how to work together and share information. Klaubauf Communicate with news media and plan how to work together to share information. Klaubauf Enact sudden death crisis plan Death Crisis Debrief with crisis recovery in regard to the loss of Plan teams. students and staff, if needed. Crisis Response Team Offer school-based health and mental health services. Provide training for staff regarding grief and possible mental health problems. Provide staff, students and families with pre-screened health and grief service providers. Follow up on student referrals made to community agencies. Provide education to Print and Continue to provide education Continue to provide students on prevention Have Ready to students, staff and parents education to students, staff strategies – including hand on prevention strategies – and parents on prevention washing, cough etiquette, including hand washing, cough strategies – including hand staying home when sick. etiquette, staying home when washing, cough etiquette, Weller sick. staying home when sick. Weller Weller Supply rooms with soap and Supply rooms with soap and Continue to supply rooms water for hand-washing or water for hand-washing or with soap and water for possibly an alcohol-based possibly an alcohol-based hand-washing or an alcohol- hand washing product. hand washing product. based hand washing Weller/Donovan Weller/Donovan product. Weller/Donovan Provide information to CD ROMs Provide students with various On-line families about the school’s Workbooks options to continue learning if curriculum, Continuity plan to continue learning for home due to illness or school TV, texts, Of students during a pandemic. closure (i.e., home delivery, CD-ROMs, Learning Harper webinars, blogs, other Web computers 2.0 tools). Harper/Klaubauf/Tech.Dept. Create assessment plan for a Use local common and/or student’s return to school other standardized following a long-term assessments to determine absence. student growth or Harper placement. Create policies for long-term Accommodate credit sickness and learning granting per board policy. Harper. Dialogue with post- secondary education to determine any changes in admission standards, etc. Communicate needs for technology tools for parents to provide instruction at home. Harper/Tech. Dept. Meet needs of special Provide special education education students and their students with specialized IEPs. curriculum and Spec. Ed. Dept. modifications/accommodation s for learning. Spec. Ed. Dept. Continuity Provide education to staff on District Refer caregivers Of pandemic flu and the Website demonstrating evidence of Operations school’s pandemic plan. emotional and physical Olsen/Weller stress (including office staff, school nurses, teachers, aides, school counselors, and other crisis team members).

Communicate school schedule changes, bussing changes or school closures as necessary. Klaubauf/Demmin Provide cross training to All Modify work roles and Evaluate staffing needs and support staff in preparation departments responsibilities or add reallocate resources to meet for a potential change in have backup volunteers or support staff as student needs. roles. personnel or needed. Principals/Klaubauf Klaubauf plans in place Klaubauf/Bldg. Admin. for critical Tech. Dept./Bus. operations. Office/Donovan Utilize phone calling trees to keep in touch with other staff employees, as a back-up to Internet communication. District Office Personnel/Administration Maintain technology use to ensure communication with all involved. Tech. Dept. Offer the support of staff to the community by translating and getting information to Hmong and Spanish speaking parents. Kralovetz Outline chain of command. Follow chain of command. Klaubauf Work with union representatives. Klaubauf Surveillance Report number of students PowerSchool Report number of students Continue reporting absent due to illness to local absent due to illness to local absentee information to county health department if county health department if local health department. over predetermined over predetermined threshold threshold level or as level or as requested. requested. Include Include information on why information on why students students are absent. are absent. Weller Weller Follow chain of command in reporting cases of illness.

Report illness absences to district office.

Use AlertNow system to Monitor staff and student communicate with parents mental health needs. and monitor reasons for absences.

Rev. March 31, 2009