School Board Responsibility Checklist
School boards have the advantage of advocating for a board-wide creation and maintenance of asthma friendly schools and are in a key position to promote and disseminate the Creating Asthma Friendly Schools: Resource Kit to individual schools. This checklist outlines activities to create asthma friendly schools appropriate at the school board level.
- Ensure all schools implement an annual process to identify students with asthma at the beginning of each school year.
- Add a question about asthma and asthma medication to the school registration form
- Add a question about asthma and asthma medication to the school registration form
- Review and revise, if necessary, the current medication policy to ensure that students with asthma are allowed to carry their inhaler with them.
- Students whose parents/guardians and health care providers judge that they have sufficient maturity and knowledge should be allowed to carry their own inhalers.
- For children who are unable to carry their own inhaler, the medication should be available in the classroom within easy reach. It should not be located in the main office or a centrally locked storage unit.
- Disseminate and promote the use of the school board’s medication policy, highlighting that children can carry inhalers with them given the completion of appropriate documentation. Parents/guardians should be aware of the process for enabling children to carry inhalers at school.
- Advocate and provide support for all schools to have a school wide process for handling worsening asthma.
- Encourage all schools to display the poster “Managing
Asthma Episodes”
- Encourage all schools to display the poster “Managing
Asthma Episodes”
- Advocate and provide support for all schools to identify and reduce common asthma triggers.
- Support the use of Health Canada’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Kit
- Support the use of Health Canada’s Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Kit
- Advocate and provide support for the value and expectation that children with asthma should be participating in all school related activities, including physical activities.
- Advocate and provide support for all schools to access asthma-related information to assist with creating asthma friendly schools.
- Advocate and provide support for all schools to offer the school-based asthma education program RAP – Roaring Adventures of Puff to students with asthma.
- School board delegates should meet with school administrators and health care professionals to discuss policy changes, current practices and updates on asthma information annually.
