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Welcome to the Texas School Safety Center's Communicable Disease Annex Toolkit. This Toolkit includes resources from multiple organizations and agencies to assist you with accomplishing multi-hazard emergency operations planning for your school district, open-enrollment charter school, or public junior college. Below, you will find a link to the Communicable Disease Annex course, a list of annex and appendix documents, trainings, additional resources, and tabletop exercises. As future research is conducted, resources in this Toolkit will be updated.

Online Course

This toolkit supports the Communicable Disease Annex online course, linked below, that will assist you with creating your district’s Communicable Disease Annex using the Template created by the Texas School Safety Center.

Creating a Communicable Disease Annex Course

Section 1.0: Annex and Appendix Documents

This section provides materials found in the online course. The CDA template, completion guide and other resources referenced in the Creating a Communicable Disease Annex (CDA) course can be accessed here.
Section 2.0: Suggested Training

This section provides information and links to suggested trainings from both FEMA and the Texas School Safety Center. All listed trainings are free for school districts, charter districts and schools and junior colleges to attend. These trainings can enhance your skills and knowledge of school safety.
Section 3.0: Additional Resources

This section provides additional resources from the Texas School Safety Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Texas Department of State Health Services and a list of Texas laws concerning communicable diseases and communicable disease incidents.
Section 4.0: Tabletop Exercises

This section will provide tabletop exercises for you to use in your district, charter, or junior college. Tabletop exercises are small group discussions that walk through a scenario and the courses of action a school will need to take before, during, and after an emergency to lessen the impact on the school community.
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Online Course

Table of Contents

Section 1.0: Annex and Appendix Documents This section provides materials found in the online course. The CDA template, completion guide and other resources referenced in the Creating a Communicable Disease Annex (CDA) course can be accessed here.

Section 1.0: Annex and Appendix Documents

This section provides materials found in the online course. The CDA template, completion guide and other resources referenced in the Creating a Communicable Disease Annex (CDA) course can be accessed here.