Marin County Grand Jury • 2017-2018

Head Injuries and Concussions Are Our High Schools Keeping Our Children Safe? a Follow-Up

Published: March 28, 2018 12 pages
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Findings and Recommendations 5 findings

F1
No consistent concussion protocol is used across the County.
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R1
The Marin County Office of Education should provide state-of-the-art head injury protocols and make them available for use at all schools.
F2
Policies for testing for concussion are applied inconsistently across the County.
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R2
School districts should provide head injury data to the Marin County Office of Education.
F3
Return-to-Play and Return-to-Learn protocols are available to all student athletes.
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R3
The Marin County Office of Education should maintain a database of head injuries provided by the school districts.
F4
Lack of available head injury data at the schools prevents analysis of the effectiveness of current head injury practices and procedures.
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R4
Novato School District should require mandatory annual neurocognitive testing of all high school athletes in high-risk sports and mandatory post-injury testing.
F5
Not all school districts have added the costs of post-injury neurocognitive testing to their budgets.
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R5
Tamalpais Union School District should require mandatory annual neurocognitive testing of all high school athletes and mandatory post-injury testing.

Additional Recommendations 5

These recommendations are not explicitly linked to specific findings.