ESC Region 12 Comprehensive School Health
program offers diverse topics to provide technical
assistance and staff development to communities and
schools. The Physical Education and Health
specialists works with administrators, school boards,
parents, faculty and staff to teach and assist students
in making healthier choices. The specialist assists
in coordinating effective preventive resources and
professional staff development with communities and
schools.
Programs:
- American Heart Heartsaver-CPR / First Aid Training
for Schools
- Annual Coordinated School Health Institute
- Coaches' Lecture Series
- Coordinated School Health
- Drug Impairment Recognition
- FitnessGram
- Injury Prevention including:
- MRSA
- Administering medication for non-health personnel
- dating violence
- blood borne pathogen
- dealing with asthma
- diabetes and epilepsy
- tobacco and alcohol
- Mental Health ~ Suicide Stigma and Prevention
- Parenting and Paternity Awareness (PAPA)
- School Health Advisory Councils
- State Mandated TETN Offerings
- TETN or Videoconferences Offered by School Health
Specialists (DSHS, TEA, TAHKA)
Screenings:
- Diabetic Care for Unlicensed Personnel (annual
refresher)
- Diabetic Care for Unlicensed Personnel (new personnel)
- Hearing
Certification
- Recertification Hearing
- Recertification
Vision
- Scoliosis Certification (certificate
valid for 5 years)
- Vision Certification (certificate valid
for 5 years)
Please be advised that if an individual does not attend
a recertification vision or hearing training prior
to December 31st of their 5th year of being certified
they must attend the basic all day workshop/s. For
example, if anniversary date for certificate is July
2005, the certificate expires December 31st of the
expiration year (2005), NOT the 5 year anniversary
of taking the class.
A nurse may earn Type I CNEs for attending designated
sessions/workshops through McLennan Community College.
Counselors, social workers and psychologists may earn
LPC/SW/CEU credit for attending designated sessions/workshops
through McLennan Community College.
"McLennan Community College is an approved
provider of continuing nursing education by Texas
Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the
American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission
on Accreditation. This activity meets Type I criteria
for mandatory continuing education requirements toward
relicensure as established by the Board of Nurse
Examiners for the State of Texas."
For further information on these and other programs
we offer, please visit http://staffweb.esc12.net/~mbooth. |
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