School Immunization Resources
School Immunization Resources
Messaging & Outreach Materials
The Illinois Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics regularly surveys school health staff throughout Illinois to identify how we can better support communication around routine and school-required vaccinations to parents and guardians. To empower school leadership in enforcing required immunizations through positive and cohesive messaging, we have developed a series of posters, parent handouts, and social media materials, with tailored messaging to amplify vaccination outreach initiatives!
School Health Staff: You can use these materials in your clinical spaces, with parents and guardians, and with school leadership and administration to support your school's communications around required vaccines and the Certificate of Child Health Examination form.
Pediatric Healthcare Providers: You can use these materials in your clinics and with your patients to help with your vaccine reminder initiatives!
An Open Letter to IL School Leadership
As we enter a new academic year, we want to emphasize the importance of upholding the state’s Minimum Immunization Requirements in your school communities. Ensuring that all students meet these requirements is not only a legal obligation but a fundamental component of public health. You are a trusted leader, and supporting these requirements shows your commitment to creating a safe and healthy school community. A community where students can learn and grow with their peers, with less staying home sick and avoiding costly healthcare or hospital stays.
We’ve developed a series of positive communication tools to support your outreach and enforcement initiatives. Download the full letter and resource kit today!
The Vaccine Requirements for
School Enrollment Campaign
Help build positive associations with vaccination and encourage a healthy school environment for students, teachers, staff, and families
Flyers and Social Media Posts Available in English and Spanish!
Communicate with parents and guardians with these easy-to-use parent outreach flyers and social media posts covering:
- Certificate of Child Health Examination requirements
- Deadlines to meet vaccine requirements
- The importance of children staying healthy so they can participate in school & activities
- Ways every person can ensure healthier school environments for all students
- How we can keep all students healthy this school year
Have an earlier deadline for the Certificate of Child Health Examination form? Download an editable parent flyer and add your school’s due date, then save, and upload to your school’s portal, e-mail a digital version to parents and guardians, or print and send home with your students.
We’ve also developed corresponding social media graphics and post copy that you can use on your social media platforms. We’ve added a helpful guide that allows you to copy and paste the correct content with the correct photo.
The Healthy Kids Achieve More Campaign
Use these materials to encourage vaccination with positive messaging about the connection between health and overall development.
Use these parent handouts and posters to help educate students and their parents or guardians about why health is important to overall development and performance. The handout and corresponding poster share key benefits of being healthy like:
- Healthy attitudes
- Better sleep
- Higher self-esteem
- Improved concentration
- More energy
- Increased physical performance
- Social emotional learning
These materials then link required vaccinations to improved health, building a narrative that getting school mandated vaccinations is a major component in staying healthy and having a successful school year.
We’ve also developed corresponding social media graphics and post copy that you can use on your social media platforms. We’ve added a helpful guide that allows you to copy and paste the correct content with the correct photo.
Tip for Pediatric Healthcare Providers: Help build more positive attitudes about required and recommended vaccines by posting these social media graphics to your practice’s social media! These handouts are also great to share with parents or guardians during routine checkups.
The Safe Schools Campaign
Use these materials to remind students and their families that there are many factors that go into creating a safe learning environment, including required vaccinations.
Use this parent handout and corresponding poster to help educate students on the importance of school safety. This content intentionally pairs the damaging effects of preventable diseases with other dangers like bullying, weapons, and fighting.
These materials define how long a student may be out for vaccine preventable diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, measles, etc. and shares that it’s not just school they’ll be missing, but field trips, sporting events, social opportunities, etc.
We’ve also developed a corresponding social media campaign with graphics and post copy that you can share out using your social media accounts. Use the support guide to copy and paste directly into your social platforms!
Tip for Pediatric Healthcare Providers: These materials are great for helping parents or guardians understand the full impact of vaccine preventable diseases. Check out the timeframe chart to demonstrate how much school their child may miss if they contract these diseases.
The Getting Back on Track Campaign
Use these materials to encourage vaccination with positive messaging about the connection between health and overall development.
Use these parent handouts and posters to help educate students and their parents or guardians about why health is important to overall development and performance. The handout and corresponding poster share key benefits of being healthy like:
- Healthy attitudes
- Better sleep
- Higher self-esteem
- Improved concentration
- More energy
- Increased physical performance
- Social emotional learning
These materials then link required vaccinations to improved health, building a narrative that getting school mandated vaccinations is a major component in staying healthy and having a successful school year.
We’ve also developed corresponding social media graphics and post copy that you can use on your social media platforms. We’ve added a helpful guide that allows you to copy and paste the correct content with the correct photo.
Tip for Pediatric Healthcare Providers: Help build more positive attitudes about required and recommended vaccines by posting these social media graphics to your practice’s social media! These handouts are also great to share with parents or guardians during routine checkups.
The Stronger Families Social Media Campaign
Social media graphics and tailored messaging that encourage parents and guardians to have their children vaccinated for preventable diseases.
Use our posting guide and social media graphics to share messaging about the real costs of getting sick including missed school, missed practice, missed work, lost wages, etc. With positive visuals and impactful copy, this social media campaign helps to build trust and confidence in parents’/guardians’ role in the vaccination process.
The Vaccine Safety Campaign
Social media graphics and tailored messaging that help to dispel misinformation about vaccine safety using positive language and bold design to draw the eye.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we experienced greater scrutiny on vaccine development, testing, and safety from the public. There is widespread misinformation throughout social media channels and the internet that we hope to counteract with this messaging. Use these graphics and corresponding post copy on your own social media platforms to help drive a more positive narrative for vaccine safety.
Tip for Pediatric Healthcare Providers: Help build more positive attitudes about required and recommended vaccines by posting these social media graphics to your practice’s social media! These handouts are also great to share with parents or guardians during routine checkups.