Lice Awareness Week - anybody tried it?

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We have a lot of lice talk on here recently and gearing up for next year I was wondering - has anyone tried something like Lice Awareness Week in their schools? I feel like this could totally backfire but really want to reduce stigma and also educate parents and teachers so they stop flipping out on me when I tell them we don't do class-wide checks... What do you think is a good approach? Flyers to parents at the start of school? Would telling the kids more about it be a mistake? A bulletin board? So taboo!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

A couple of years ago I tried something similar....it was a Lice Webinar that I opened up to the public. I hyped it for a few weeks prior to the event, sent home invitations to all the parents, and invited all the local day cares and pre-schools. I had about 15 people show up. Two of them were parents and the rest were day care and pre-school employees seeking continuing education credits.

I'm going to head into next year with what you might call a lice awareness year...I'm starting out with all the yadda yaddas in the first day packets and will continue to remind everyone monthly with something that lice is a parent responsibility, transmission, treatment, prevention, and on and on...an on.

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Hey OldDude. You have such a great way with words. Would you be willing to share some of your info with us that you send home to parents?

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

It's nothing special...just a gesture to advertise that we are aware and are responding to the concern. The last one I sent out I took from the NASN parent letter with a few snips and cuts here and there.

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