The best time to start to start building immunity from vaccine preventable diseases is before the risk of exposure increases. Ensuring your child gets the right vaccines at the right ages helps protect them before they are exposed to vaccine-preventable diseases.
While this may sound complicated, it doesn’t have to be. Medical and public health experts with the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommend a standardized vaccine schedules for infants, children, youth, and adults, which are approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). This is the same schedule that your doctor, or your child’s pediatrician, uses when recommending vaccines for you and your family.
See the following sections for more information about vaccines recommended at different points from pregnancy through age 18.
Content in this section adapted from materials created by the CDC.
Washington State school and child care vaccination requirements serve the purpose to reduce the incidence of vaccine-preventable disease and their associated negative outcomes by increasing vaccination rates. All child cares and schools are required to report their immunization status by November 1 of each year.
The Immunization Assessment and Promotion program at Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) provides local support to schools and child cares regarding immunization record collection and review, mobile immunization clinic coordination to address vaccine gaps among their student population, and state vaccine and vaccine education requirement satisfaction.
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For school personnel, providers and other medical practitioners assessing immunization records in Ukrainian and Russian.
This document provides an overview of the vaccines required to attend schools in Washington state and the vaccines that children, from birth to age 17, typically receive in Ukraine. In addition to comparisons between the schedules, this document provides examples of what vaccine records may look like when written in Ukrainian and Russian.
The Immunization Assessment & Promotion (IAP) team works closely with Spokane County schools to coordinate vaccination clinics. These events are open to the public and any child from any school district can attend them. All the vaccines are provided at no cost and records are entered into the Washington State Immunization Information System (WA IIS). For information about upcoming clinics, please see the Events page.
If you are a school and are interested in hosting a vaccination clinic, please send a clinic request form to IAPSupport@srhd.org
“Growing Up with Vaccines: What Should Parents Know?” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last modified July 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/growing/images/global/CDC-Growing-Up-with-Vaccines.pdf.
“Vaccines and Immunizations,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last modified February 16, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/index.html.
“Pregnancy and Vaccination,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last modified November 9, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pregnancy/index.html.
“Vaccines for Your Children,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , last modified March 18, 2019 https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/index.html.
“There Are Vaccines You Need as an Adult,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last modified July 30, 2021, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/index.html.
Partner with SRHD to set up a community vaccine clinic! We can offer routine childhood vaccines, COVID-19, flu and some routine adult vaccines. To request a clinic, please fill out the Vaccine Clinic Request Form. Questions? Call 509.324.1611.
Learn about what immunization is, why it's important, and when to get certain vaccines.