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Dear Parent/Guardian:

The following procedures should be followed when requesting school personnel to administer medication to your school child during school hours:

• The Union School District will cooperate with parents and their medical practitioners in giving prescribed medications when they must be given during school hours (e.g. failure to take such medication would jeopardize the health of the student or the student would not be able to attend school if the medication were not made available during school hours). To comply with a request, the parent or guardian must sign a district form giving written instruction for medication, permission for such administration, and relieve the Board and its employees of liability for administration of medication. The physician/dentist must also sign a district form(see attachment). The container for the medication, which is taken to school, shall be the container from the drugstore.
• The Parent and /or high school student should bring the completed medication forms and the medication to the school and give it to the appropriate school personnel (e.g. School Nurse, School Secretary or Building Principal). Send only enough medication to be taken at school for the duration of the prescription. Your pharmacist will, upon request, divide the prescription medication into two separate, labeled containers – one for home; the second for use at school. If the student is to only take one –half a pill, the medication should be cut at home.
• The medication shall be locked in a cabinet. Note: Prescribed asthma inhalers and epipens may be kept by the student and self-administered if the physician indicates this need in writing and considers the student sufficiently responsible. In addition, the physician should list any precautions to be followed on this form (the school nurse will inform the principal and appropriate others). The parent will also need to complete the asthma action plan and asthma inhaler self-administration agreement.
• School personnel will keep a record of the administration of medication and destroy unused medication which has not been picked up by the parent or guardian after the duration of the prescription.
• The parent/guardian of the child must assume the responsibility for informing the school of any change in the child’s health, or change in medication. A new medication form must be completed by the parent and physician with each change in medication or at the beginning of each school year.
• When available, the school nurse shall administer medication. In the absence or unavailability of the school nurse, the nurse will designate other appropriate personnel (RN, LPN) to be responsible for these duties. The school nurse will instruct or orient personnel designated to dispense any medication to any particular student.
• Non-prescription medications that may be given in a non-emergency situation are acetaminophen (such as Tylenol), tums, cough drops, Benadryl or ibuprofen, in accordance with the treatment protocol established by the school physician. All over the counter medications will be given by the nurse at her discretion. The parent must sign the authorization for over the counter medications on the student’s emergency information card and relieve the Board and its employees of liability for administration of the medications.
• A copy of the district medication forms have been attached for your convenience.
Please see the School Nurse or Building Secretary if you need additional forms. Thank You.


(Rev.3/10)

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Important Information About Continuing Extra Benefits in Response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health Emergency

Due to the COVID-19 health emergency, children who are eligible for free or reduced-priced meals at school will receive extra food benefits to cover the period of the summer of 2023. These food benefits are called Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer or P-EBT benefits. P-EBT benefits help families in Pennsylvania buy food during the summer. The child listed on this letter will receive the Summer P-EBT benefit.
Your child is eligible for this program because the school has informed us that your child was enrolled at the school through the end of the previous school year and your child was eligible for free or reduced-price meals through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) or became eligible over the summer on or before June 30, 2023.

There is no application for P-EBT. You do not need to do anything to get these benefits!
Who is eligible?
A child will get Summer P-EBT benefits if:
1. The school participates in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP); AND
2. The child was eligible for free or reduced-price meals through the NSLP during the 2022-2023 school year or became eligible for free or reduced-price meals through the NSLP between June 1, 2023 and June 30, 2023; AND,
3. The child was enrolled at the school during the previous school year (at least during May 2023).

 

As part of the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) - School Health Screening Program, the Union School District Health Services Offices, complete annual growth screenings each school year. The DOH states, “Height and weight measurement shall be conducted at least once annually. Every effort shall be made to determine the pattern of growth for each child, so that his weight and height can be interpreted in light of his own growth pattern rather than those of his classmates.”

NOTE: The Department of Health BMI-for-age percentile categories match the CDC BMI-for-age percentile categories as follows:

• Underweight: < 5th percentile
• Healthy Weight: 5th - < 85th percentile
• Overweight: 85th - < 95th percentile
• Obese: =/> 95th percentile

 

For a copy of your child’s 2021-2022 school year Body Mass Index (BMI) report:

Please contact Mrs. Mary Sweeney, at UHS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or 814-473-3121, Ext. 1124.

 

Each school year, Union School District contracts with transportation vendors to provide bus services to students who live outside of the walking radius of the school. Often, students are assigned to bus routes, but utilize other means of transportation for the school year, such as driving, parent transport, or riding with other students. If your child has been assigned to a Union School District bus route, but is planning to utilize alternate means of transport for the year, please complete the attached form below.