Visit https://www.immunize.ca/card-parents for helpful resources.

Yes. Your child’s immune system can easily handle many vaccines at once. Receiving multiple vaccines is safe, convenient, and ensures the best protection for your child at the earliest age possible

Common side effects are redness, tenderness and swelling at the injection site on the arm. Some children experience a headache, fever, and fatigue.

Visit Immunization Connect Ontario to view the record online.

You can also contact our vaccine records department at 1-866-892-0172 ext. 3535 or email records@algomapublichealth.com.

More information can be found at our School and Child Care Immunizations page

Yes. Please complete the consent form that your child brings home and indicate on the form the dates of the previous doses. A public health nurse will ensure the timing is correct prior to administering their next dose.

Yes, if your child missed these vaccines in Grade 7 they are eligible to catch up until the end of Grade 12. You may contact your primary care provider or make an appointment at Public Health by calling 1-866-892-0172 ext. 5409.

Yes. Please submit the consent form that your child brings home and indicate ‘NO’ in the vaccine consent boxes. Add a note as to why you are not receiving these vaccines at school. It is very helpful for the nurses on clinic day to have completed consent forms for all students. 

You may contact your primary care provider or make an appointment at public health by calling 1-866-892-0172 ext. 5409. You can also wait until the spring school clinics to start their vaccine series.

If they completed a full series of Hepatitis B vaccine or Twinrix, they do not need to repeat Hepatitis B at school. Fill out the consent form with the dates of the vaccines and indicate ‘NO’ in the consent box for Hep B vaccine. If they have not received the full series, a nurse will reach out and advise if the vaccine is needed.

Yes, they do need a dose of MenC-ACYW-135. Men-C only covers one strain of meningitis that is most commonly seen in younger children (the C strain). Men-C-ACYW-135 covers for the C strain again but it also covers an additional three other strains A, Y and W-135, which your child has not been protected against yet.

As per the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) only one valid dose of MenC-ACYW-135 after age one is required for school attendance. However, your child is still eligible for a publicly funded dose of MenC-ACYW-135 in grade 7. Antibodies can wane so receiving another dose is optional. For more information on a second dose please call our Immunization Phone Line at 1-866-892-0172 ext. 5409.

Vaccines required for school attendance under the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) will need a valid religious or conscientious exemption form completed. Visit Immunization Exemptions for more information. 

Please complete the consent form that your child brings home and indicate “NO” in the consent boxes and add a note to advise you are in the process of exemption.

Visit Immunization Exemptions for Children in School and Child Care (link to APH info) for instructions on medical exemptions and to download a form to be completed by your primary care provider. Please return the consent form and indicate “NO” in the consent boxes and add a note to advise you are in the process of medical exemption.

Yes. You can make an appointment at public health by calling 1-866-892-0172.

• The Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) requires that all students be fully immunized, unless a valid medical or non-medical/religious exemption is filed with the Public Health Unit
  
  
• In Ontario, ISPA states that all children attending school must be adequately immunized against:
  • Diphtheria
  • Tetanus
  • Polio
  • Measles
  • Mumps
  • Rubella
  • Meningococcal Disease
  • Pertussis (whooping cough)
  • Varicella (chickenpox) - mandatory for students born on or after January 1, 2010
    
    

• For more information on how to file an exemption, please visit our legislation/exemption from immunization page.

Learn more about the Immunization of Schools Pupil Act (ISPA).