School Head Lice Outbreaks and Community Solutions

Head Lice infestations in children's hair start with the beginning of the school year and peaks around Halloween. Sound scary? No need to panic! Student head lice infestations are not a medical emergency! However, some skills are needed to deal with the delicate issues of head lice removal and cases may reoccur for weeks causing great frustration. Things can also get heated if families get upset, and kids get blamed or teased, or worse: stigmatized. Reoccuring headlice can lead to missed school, less productive classrooms and insomnia due to itchiness  or anxiety. This ten part course covers a lot of ground. Who benefits? School nurses, teachers, families or students taking technical courses about hair. Counter stress, anxiety, insomnia and  reoccurrence by  properly handling  head lice as well as the social and emotional responses to  head checks.