Is Your School Trained?¶
Minnesota's seizure-safety law (Minn. Stat. 121A.24) asks schools to give staff materials on recognizing and responding to seizures. The training already exists and is free, the gap is making sure staff actually take it. This program helps schools get trained and get credit for it.
Get your staff trained (free)¶
The Epilepsy Foundation offers free, on-demand courses for the people who work with students:
- School staff (teachers, aides, subs, coaches, bus drivers, cafeteria, front office): https://www.epilepsy.com/programs/training-education/school-personnel
- School nurses (with CE credit): https://www.epilepsy.com/programs/training-education/nurses
- Seizure First Aid Certification (2-year): https://www.epilepsy.com/recognition/first-aid-resources
The Minnesota Department of Health's Managing Seizures in School toolkit includes a Training Validation Tool to track who has completed it.
Who to train¶
A seizure can happen anywhere, so training should reach beyond the classroom: teachers and special-education staff, paraprofessionals, substitute teachers, bus drivers, coaches and PE staff, cafeteria and front-office staff, and field-trip chaperones. (More in For Schools: In Practice.)
Report your school as trained¶
We are building a public list of Minnesota schools whose staff have completed seizure training, so families can see who is prepared, and so schools get recognized for the work.
To be listed: once your staff have completed the free training, email edanmnorg@gmail.com from a school address with your district/school name and roughly how many staff were trained. We add you to the list below.
How tracking works
This is self-reported. We list schools that tell us their staff completed the free training; it is recognition, not an audit. (A short online form will make reporting easier soon.)
Trained schools¶
Be the first. As schools report completed training, we will list them here.
Training your staff is also one of the five steps to earn the Seizure-Smart Classroom badge.
Free and student-led, from the Epilepsy Data & Advocacy Network (EDAN). We point to free Epilepsy Foundation and Minnesota Department of Health training rather than running our own.