Useful School Links

These resources have information that may assist you as you work with your child(ren)’s school. Washington FEAST posts these links as they have been helpful to some in the past but makes no guarantee that the information provided on them is suitable for your specific, individual needs.

• AAAAI Classroom Corner
• Children’s Hospital – Seattle In partnership with the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI) — Northwest, Seattle Children’s offers a Food Allergy Community Health Education Program
• ELL – Protect Allergic Children offers a program and consultants available in our area to provide food allergy training.
• FAAN’s School and Childcare Resource page
• FAAN’s School Advocacy Page
  info on state and federal school food allergy guidelines and legislation
• Food Allergy Advocate Rhonda Riggott Stevens, a professional educator, has helped many parents work through the Section 504 and IDEA processes successfully with their school districts.
• Food Allergy Initiative Schools Page
• Food Allergy Families School Page
• Food Insight – Nutrition and Food Safety – School Food Service Poster
• Ann Arbor School District Guidelines
• Spokane School District Life Threatening Food Allergy Information
  

Legislation and Guidelines: State and Federal – Proposed and Existing

• Arizona School Food Allergy Guidelines
• Connecticutt Food Allergy Guidelines
• Connecticutt Food Allergy Law
• FAAMA 2008
  Federal school food allergy guideline legislation
• Massachusetts School Food Allergy guidelines – 2002
• Missouri Law
• New Jersey Legislation
  NJ School Food Allergy Guidelines
• Tennesee Law
• Tennessee Guidelines :Life Threatening Conditions
• Washington State Anaphylaxis Bill:Senate Bill 6556:
  WA State legislative info page on SB6556
• Washington State Guidelines
  OSPI Guidelines for the Care of Students with Anaphylaxis

Canadian resources

• Allergy Safe Communities
  Cooperatively developed website with many best practices and strategies for managing food allergies in all aspects of life.
• Anaphylaxis in Schools and Child Care Settings
  Canadian medical association publication with detailed classroom management suggestions
• British Columbia Ministry for Children and Families.
  A practical resource for parents, care providers and staff for managing life threatening food allergies in schools and child care settings.
• Prevention First
  Implementing Anaphylaxis plans in Ontario – great web-based school anaphylaxis plan training resource

Australian resources

• New Zealand Anaphylaxis guidelines for schools
  Excellent resource
• New Zealand Department of Health
  page on anaphylaxis and allergies – has useful links