School Health Advisory Council Members
Beth Howard - Parent/ Cleregy/Co-Chair
Janet Huggard DDS - Parent
Janice Morgan RN - Parent
Imani Johnson LVN - Parent Becky Gaither - Parent
Margo Shanks- Health Educator - McLennan County Health District Maria Solano-Community Health Worker and Health Illiteracy Brazos Area Health Education Center Pam White- District RN - SHAC Co -ChairDebbie Pirelo RN - High School nurse
The Committee met 5 times in school year 2010 -2011. Purpose: To bring individuals and groups from our community together to address issues affecting the health and well being of our children, youth and families. Action: The council will identify local concerns, establish priorities, and make recommendations by providing the leadership we need to promote health in our schools and community. Vision: Our children will live, learn and grow in a safe healthy environment. The SHAC meets at least 4 times a year or more if necessary,to discuss the needs of our school and issues that come up, making recommendations when needed. It is composed primarily of parents along with business owners, health consultants, cleregy, students and employees. Feel free to contact Pam White SHAC Co-Coordinator for any concerns or interest at: 254-750-7104 or pwhite@connally.org Minutes to meetings June 2011 - May 2012 SHAC Minutes Aug. 11, 2011 We reviewed our current member list. Michele King will no longer serve on the counsel. We appreciate her help over the past year. Vickie Dean will go on stand by status. She is prepared to support the SHAC as needed. Sarah Howard will be our student representative from the High School. Ashley Williams is no longer with the McLennan County Health District. Her position is being filled by Margo Shanks. It would be good at add another parent if possible. If anyone knows a parent who would be an asset to our SHAC and thinks they would be willing to serve let Pam White know. We will finalize our member list and get it ready to send to the School Board for their approval at the next scheduled meeting. We reviewed the District Handbook policy on CISD’s abstinence program. It allows the subject on contraception in the curriculum only if it is presented with real life efficiency data and that abstinence is presented as the preferred choice. We reviewed the schedules for the HS and Jr. High Big Decision programs. We discussed the plans for 6th grade to receive presentations on saying “no” and on healthy relationships. As well as human growth and development presentations for 4th and 5th grades. We reviewed the criteria for the Reaching for Excellence Award and felt that CISD met the requirements of the application with the Big Decision program. The SHAC has submitted a letter of recommendation for the award. Plans for the award money were discussed as this info needs to be included in the application. We talked about including a guest speaker to talk about dating as one of the sessions in our Big Decision Program in the future. Lamar Collins is a dynamic speaker that reaches out on a level that the students identify with. The award money would cover the cost of 2 sessions one for HS and one for Jr. High. Next meeting scheduled for Thursday Oct. 20th, 2011 at 4pm. SHAC Minutes October 20, 2011 Welcome Armando Galiado from Waco McLennan County Health District. He will be taking Margo Shanks place as a SHAC member. Reviewed information collected from Big Decision Program presented to the HS. Data collected revealed positive results regarding student reaction and feedback. (See attached documents). It just keeps getting better and better. We applied for the Awards for Excellence in Texas School Health. Connally ISD was awarded the “Reaching for Excellence Award”. CISD will receive a total of $1200 for “The Big Decision” program implemented in May of 2011. We are very excited. Award ceremony is scheduled to take place in Austin in January. Connally ISD would like to extend many thanks to Maria Solano and Samantha Gammel from AHEC for all their hard work. Implementing this program would not be possible with out the help and coordination efforts from them. We also want to thank all the other agencies that helped in the “Big Decision “effort at CISD. We made plans for the Jr. High, Big Decision Program to kick off November 14th. We are currently working with Tiffani Johnson from McLennan County Health District conducting the SPAN (School physical activity and nutrition) survey on 4th, 8th, and 11th grades. We are still waiting to hear from Family Health Center regarding the flu shot clinic for Connally ISD students. Possible plans for Family Health Center’s Dental team to come and treat our elementary and primary students. SHAC Minutes January 19th, 2012 We celebrated our The Big Decision program receiving an award, The Award in Excellence in Texas School Health. We have put the announcement on CISD web site and it will be posted in the _Lacy Lakeview Chamber News Letter next month. The award is being presented in Austin on Friday January 27th. Recognition is to be given to Samantha Gammel with TXAHEC, CISD SHAC, and DeLoriean Wilkerson-McGee with The Advocacy Center. We are receiving award money in which we are booking Lamar Collins to give a presentation to 7th – 12th grades. It is called “The Dating Game”. There will be 2 presentations on March 9th, 2012 in the HS auditorium. 7th-8th from 8:45am – 9:30am 9th-12th from 10am – 10:45am Samantha Gammel from TXAHEC reported on how the 7th and 8th grade Big Decision program for this year. It was discussed that the effectiveness could be increased greatly if it were done in the class room setting, needing 6 sessions to cover information adequately. During the classroom lessons, assignments, class room participation and test grades would be given. Debbie Pirelo RN will talk with Debra Brown at HS about implementing this procedure next year for 9th and 10th grades. Pam White will talk with Claudia McGlothan at the Jr. High. Also plans made to provide the full program to the 7th and 8th next year (includes contraception facts). We discussed the 6th grade program on Puberty, Hygiene, and relationships and found that there were lots of questions about STD. Plan to add more information on Abstinence and STD’s next year. 4th and 5th grade puberty and hygiene program to be provided by the McLennan County Health District on Feb. 17, 2012. Next year it will be expanded to include health relationships next year. Armondo Galindo from the McLennan County Health District reported that the data collection for the SPAN survey has been completed. They will begin compiling the data soon. Connally ISD participated in this survey in the fall 2011. Family Health Center will be providing a program for Connally Elementary and Connally Primary. It will consist of a presentation to the students. For all students in which parents return the form for treatment the students will receive cleanings, x-rays and sealants. Next Scheduled meeting will be Thursday, May 17th, 2011 at 4pm in the Administrative Board Room. | 
