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After-school Vaccination Clinics
Children will be able to receive any required or
recommended immunizations at no cost through
Healthy school settings keep students in the classroom the federally funded Vaccines for Children program.
where they can learn and grow. That’s why vaccinations Sixth grade students will be able to receive the Tdap
are so important in protecting school-age children from shot (with parental consent) in April, during in-school
getting sick and spreading diseases to others. clinics. Students can get other adolescent vaccines
Fortunately for Flagler County residents, parents and
caregivers have a variety of options to make sure that
children are up-to-date on immunizations. The local
health department and school district partner to bring
recommended by the CDC and the American Association
of Pediatrics -- Meningococcal, HPV and Influenza -- at
the health department. Visit https://immunizefl.com/ for
more information.
vaccination clinics to schools so students (with parental Aside from the new “After School Vaccination Clinics,”
consent) can be immunized during the school day. Some DOH-Flagler provides free immunizations for children
families have time to take off for pediatrician visits, ages 1 through 18 on a walk-in basis, weekdays from
and others come to the Flagler Health Department in 8:30 to 10:30AM. For further information, please
Bunnell for weekday morning walk-in vaccinations. call 386-437-7350 ext. 7088, or visit http://flagler.
Despite these alternatives, many well-intentioned floridahealth.gov/.
working parents struggle to meet their children’s
immunization deadlines each school year.
For this reason, the Florida Department of Health in
Flagler County (DOH-Flagler) is expanding its clinical
hours one day each month to give working parents
additional access to care for their children. Starting
May 12, 2020, DOH-Flagler will offer “After School
Vaccination Clinics” the second Tuesday of every month
from 3:30 to 5:30PM. The department’s Woman, Infants
and Children (WIC) program will also be open during
these hours to better accommodate working families.
4 | F L A G L E R parent M A G A Z I N E
About the Florida Department of Health
The Department, nationally accredited by the Public
Health Accreditation Board, works to protect, promote
and improve the health of all people in Florida through
integrated state, county and community efforts.
For information about the Florida Department of Health
in Flagler, go to flagler.floridahealth.gov, call 386-437-
7350, or visit 301 Dr. Carter Blvd. in Bunnell.