To help parents in Southwest Louisiana prepare their children for school and daycare this fall and to protect them from preventable diseases, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals – Office of Public Health, through its Shots for Tots program, is hosting back-to-school immunization events at parish health units and clinics throughout the area.

All field trips for Cameron Parish Schools for the remainder of this school year have been cancelled as a precautionary health measure. Principals have been alerted and are contacting teachers to plan alternate activities for the classes involved on their own campuses. The athletic and co-curricular competitions for which Cameron Parish students have qualified will go on as scheduled.

It is time to register for SOWELA.

Attorney General Buddy Caldwell stood in support as Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law the Jason Flatt Act. The Jason Flatt Act is a piece of legislation which passed unanimously in the Lousiana legislature. Louisiana is the second state in the nation, behind Tennessee, to enact this new law. The law requires educators to receive two hours of youth suicide awareness and prevention training.