Comal County’s Public Health Department Outreach Team showed up at Canyon Lake’s Tye Preston Memorial Library this week to remind parents it’s time to schedule appointments for their children’s back-to-school vaccines.
The group shared information about vaccines for school-aged children, Texas Vaccines for Children (TVFC) and mental health resources in the county.
Comal ISD hosts two back-to-back student immunization clinics from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Aug. 3 at Bill Brown Elementary School, 20410 TX-46, Spring Branch; and from 1-4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3 at Mountain Valley Elementary School, 310 Cannan Rd., Canyon Lake.
Extended hours for back-to-school vaccines are 7 a.m. to noon and 1-5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 9 and Wednesday, Aug. 23. Public Health is located at 1297 Church Hill, Suite 102, New Braunfels.
The department’s phone number is 830-221-1150.
Texas minimum state vaccine requirements include:
Kindergarten-6th grades:
- Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP vaccine)
- Polio (IPV vaccine)
- Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine)
- Hepatitis B
- Chickenpox (varicella vaccine)
- Hepatitis A
7th grade:
- Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis (Tdap vaccine)
- Polio (IPV vaccine)
- Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine)
- Hepatitis B
- Chickenpox (varicella vaccine)
- Hepatitis A
- Meningococcal (MCV4)
8th – 12th grades:
- Tetanus, diptheria, pertussis (Tdap vaccine)
- Polio (IPV vaccine)
- Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR vaccine)
- Hepatitis B
- Chickenpox (varicella vaccine)
- Hepatitis A
- Meningococcal (MCV4)
To see a list of vaccines required by Comal ISD click here.
For more information about vaccines visit the county’s website.
TVFC provides low-cost vaccines to children who might not otherwise be vaccinated because of their parent/guardian’s inability to pay. For more information about the program click here.
