Greetings! Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week!!!!
Please take a brief moment this week and do one thing...be it small or large to help raise food awareness within your sphere of influence. Educate a girl scout troupe, share safe foods and recipes, teach Be A P.A.L. at your child's school or brace yourself, talk to that relative who doesn't get it try to see if you can educate them from a different angle!
See below for.. .School Food Allergy Training programs, a news spot about about the new Food Allergy Policy, Senator Heller and S.1884 and our new Food Allergy Champion at the State Legislature !!!
Keep those calls and emails going to Senator Heller!
An AAPE member shared her letter with us and we discovered the Senator's office had mis-understood an important part of S.1884, the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act. Therefore, we've been able to provide better information and hope Senator Heller will reconsider and co-sponsor S.1884.
We need to continue our requests for him to co-sponsor S.1884 . Truly, a short personal story or personal reason as to why this is needed is key. Our REMSA response time in Reno is 8 minutes and 39 seconds, far too long if a child is not breathing! This is one important reason as to why we need this bill. Please continue your efforts-it makes a difference.
We did receive word that Senator Heller was receiving many calls and emails!!
Contact Infromation: Lee Ann Gibson, (the Senator' s aide)
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v or even better give her a quick call at 202-224-6244
TURN ON THE TV Thursday night at 5pm!
Tune into KOLO 8 on May 17th at 5pm to hear Dana Balchunas, Director of Student Health Services, Dr. Nevin Wilson, Lauren Klein and her daughter Bella discussing our new Food Anaphylaxis policy!
Speaking of...Food Allergy Education
Last week AAPE members Caroline and Leslie shared 43 School Food Allergy Training Programs with the Washoe County School District at last week's National School Nurse Appreciation Day breakfast!!!! YAY! WE have several more available for private schools to check out! Please email back or call Caroline at 775-250-1345 to check out. These will remain in our AAPE library, so if Aug/Sep is better, we have 'em! AAPE also donated two epinephrine field trip cases plus other items for a raffle we host for the school nurses. They were most appreciative! THANK YOU Alliance with Washoe County Medical Society for the grant that kicked off our library!
New Food Allergy Champion in our Nevada State Legislature!
We have a new champion at the Nevada State Legislature: Debbie Smith! Debbie has served for many years in our Nevada State Assembly and is currently running for a Senate seat. Caroilne has met with her and she understands our food allergy needs as her grand-daughter is tree nut allergic. We are working on getting Stock Epinephrine in schools. Even though we are hoping and waiting on S.1884 to pass, since our state lawmakers meet every other year, we need to get working right now the stock epiphrine issue!
Debbie Smith was passionate and understands the urgent need for a solution to this issue. She is working on it right now!
What she needs from US: She needs one family each from Washoe County, Clark County and any rural area that have experienced a food allergic reaction at school. We are seeking personal stories that we can use to help lawmakers understand the need for emergency stock epinephrine. If you have a story of a food allergic reaction you can share, please email reply and we'll get your story!
HAPPY FOOD ALLERGY AWARENESS WEEK!
