Nursing Law Report (Report 3)

Education and public health leaders can use specific laws and policies to promote programs and strategies that foster an environment in which children and adolescents can thrive and learn. CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health and Public Health Law Program engaged legal scholars and researchers at the Centers for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative to review the use of law as a tool for improving and protecting the health and safety of children, adolescents, and staff in public elementary and secondary schools. The culmination of the project is an extensive report which uses a Coordinated School Health Program model as a framework to review critical laws and policies regarding the health of children and adolescents in schools. It is intended to help practitioners and policymakers in public health and education at the federal, state, and local levels enhance their knowledge of relevant laws and policies.

The full report is published in the February 2008 issue of the Journal of School Health and is available for download from the American School Health Association website (Please also see CDC's website and the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown & Johns Hopkins Universities website for more information.)