High School: Prevention & Mitigation Tools

Focuses on ways to teach hand hygiene and respiratory disease prevention to limit the spread of disease. Includes training and educational materials in a variety of formats, such as fact sheets, guides, letters, posters, skits, teaching exercises, and videos.

 »  Fact Sheets

• Frequently Asked Questions About Pandemic Flu
  Questions and answers about how schools can prepare in the event of pandemic influenza
  (California Department of Education)
   

• Pandemic Flu Glossary of Terms
  Terms that are commonly used in pandemic flu preparedness (American Red Cross)
   

• Questions and Answers: Information for Schools

  Answers to flu questions commonly asked by school administrators, teachers, staff, and parents (CDC)

   

• Stopping Germs at Home, Work and School
  Fact sheet about how to prevent the spread of germs; 2 pages (CDC)
   

• Stopping the Spread of Germs at Home, Work, and School
  Fact sheet about how to prevent the spread of germs; 1 page
  (Sacramento County Division of Public Health)

»  Guides

• California Public Employee Disaster Service Workers
  Pamphlet for public employees to understand their role as disaster service workers in the event of an emergency; 2 pages
  (CA Government Code, Section 3100-3109, Orange County Department of Education)
   

• Managing Infectious Diseases in Child Care and Schools
  Ordering information for a reference guide that identifies ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in settings for children (California Healthy Kids Resource Center)
   

• School Action Steps for Pandemic Flu
  Steps for preparing for pandemic influenza and responding to outbreaks of varying scope; 2 pages (Contra Costa Health Services)

»  Letters

• Sample Parent Letter # 1  English I  Spanish
  To help prepare parents for pandemic flu before there are human pandemic flu or bird flu cases in the U.S.; 1 page (Contra Costa Health Services)

»  Posters

• Cover Your Cough
  English I Spanish I Somali I Hmong I Chinese I French I Khmer I Portuguese I Tagalog I Vietnamese (Minnesota Department of Health)
   

• Did You Wash ‘em  English I Spanish
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Did You Wash Your Hands?
  (Massachusetts Department of Health)
   

• Don’t Spread Germs (CDPH)
   

• Health Alert English/Spanish | English/Chinese (CDPH)
   

• Our Hands Touch Many Lives version A I version B I version C

  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Stop Disease
  English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Tagalog, and Japanese (CDPH)
   

• Wash Your Hands
  In English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese (CDPH) 

»  Teaching Exercises 

• Henry the Hand School Kit
  Skit for 2 older students to teach children (pre-K – grade 3)  about germs; includes
  links to Henry the Hand video, theme song and Doin' the Handwash song 
  (Henry the Hand Foundation)  
   
   

• How to WHACK the Flu
  Skit for 3 older students to teach hand and respiratory hygiene to children
  (pre-K – grade 2); includes a sticker, a poster, and a brochure to send
  home with kids; 3 pages (City of Berkeley)

» Skits

• Great Ideas for Hand Washing Educators
  Ideas on how to spread awareness on handwashing and illness prevention; Adults
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Handwashing Laboratory Activities                                                                                      
  Lab experiment that teaches students about germs on their hands; grade 6 – grade 12
  (National Health Museum)
   

• Handwashing: Prevent Disease and Outbreak Intervention
  Curriculum to teach older audiences about how to prevent illness; 10 pages; grade 9 – Adult(Minnesota Department of Health)
   

• Handwashing Project Ideas for Students 
  Activities and project ideas for students; includes ideas for community outreach; grade 6  –  Adult (Minnesota Department of Health)

• Great Ideas for Hand Washing Educators
  Ideas on how to spread awareness on handwashing and illness prevention; Adults
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)

»  Videos

• Avian vs. Pandemic Flu
  Video that explains the differences between avian and pandemic flu
  (County of Los Angeles Public Health)

• The Cougher
  A professionally produced 60 second video clip from the Florida Health Department using comedy to illustrate the importance of respiratory and hand hygiene for flu prevention.

• The Cougher (Shorter version)
  A 30 second version of the FHD video clip listed above.

• Sick Day
  A humorous 60 second video clip produced by the Florida Health Department illustrating the scenario of a sick employee that refuses to go home and exposes his co-workers to disease-causing germs.

• Urinal Guy
  A comical 60 video clip produced by the Florida Health Department to illustrate the importance of hand hygiene.

• Urinal Guy (Shorter Version)
  A 30 second version of the FHD video clip listed above.

• Urinal Guy (Shortest Version)
  A 15 second version of the FHD video clip listed above.

• Flu Bug U 30-second Video PSA

  Video that teaches how to prevent the flu. Video includes script; grade 7– adult; 30 sec.
  (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• Flu Bug U 60-second Video PSA (en Español)

  Video in Spanish that teaches how to prevent the flu. Video includes script; grade 7– adult; 60 sec. (Kansas Department of Health and Environment)
   

• The Flu vs. the Cold
  Video that explains the differences between the cold and flu (County of Los Angeles Public Health)

• The Sneeze: How Germs are Spread
  Ordering information for video that explains how germs are spread and the importance of handwashing (California Healthy Kids Resource Center)
   

• Why Don’t We Do It In Our Sleeves?
  Ordering information for video that demonstrates proper cough etiquette
  (OtoRhinoLounsburgology Productions)
   

• Your Role as a Disaster Service Worker: Public Employees Roll Up Their Sleeves
  Video that clarifies roles and responsibilities as a disaster service worker; 11 minutes, 56 seconds; includes Video Facilitator's Discussion Guidebook; 12 pages (Public Health Division, Contra Costa Health Services; Office of Disaster Medical Services, Santa Clara County Public Health Department)