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Tinubu Ali, Titilayo; Herrera, Mirel – Southern Education Foundation, 2020
Government officials are taking swift public health actions to slow the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of March, statewide school closures affected 55.1 million K-12 public school students across the country. While school closures affect all students, students from underserved communities feel this impact even greater. Data on…
Descriptors: Public Health, Disease Control, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nastasi, Bonnie K.; Overstreet, Stacy; Summerville, Meredith – School Psychology International, 2011
Large scale natural disasters pose serious risks to mental health and simultaneously wreak havoc on the very systems called upon to ameliorate those risks. School-based mental health services have been identified as a potential mechanism through which gaps in service delivery systems can be addressed in post-disaster environments. We believe that…
Descriptors: Health Services, Delivery Systems, Natural Disasters, School Psychologists
Sulkowski, Michael L.; West, Jill; Lazarus, Philip J. – Communique, 2011
In this article, the impact of two major disasters (Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire and subsequent oil spill) on residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are discussed. An overriding concern as expressed by the recently released report issued by the National Commission on Children and Disasters, 2010 "Report to the…
Descriptors: Mental Health Workers, Public Health, Mental Health, Natural Disasters
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. Div. of Academic Programs. – 1981
This curriculum guide is based on the Louisiana State Minimum Competencies for Health Education. This guide consists of extensive outlines of major content areas in health education with recommended activities to facilitate learning at specified levels. The content areas are: (1) communicable and noncommunicable disease; (2) consumer health; (3)…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, Consumer Education, Course Content, Drug Use