Updated 8/22/21, these are the protols  you can expect for the upcoming 2021-22 CCD school year. Please refer back to this page for any updates. 

Illness Prevention Protocol Overview:

• Staying Home when Appropriate:
  • Parents should monitor temperature and symptoms
  • Sick employees and students should stay home and follow state guidelines for quarantine (**more details given below)
  • Absences: No attendance will count against children. Please report (through email: clarosa@arch-no.org ot by text 504-451-5909) if your child is out due to illness.  
• Drop Off:
  • Drop off will begin at 6:10, as children exit the car, they proceed straight to the assigned classroom. Expect delays in the drop off line.
  • Dismissal is still being considered 
• Cloth Face Coverings: Wearing a face covering protects students and volunteers and is an important measure in minimizing COVID-19 transmission.
  • CDC social distancing recommendations will be followed to the maximum extent possible. However, we have limited resources (volunteers and classroom size) and we would have to limit our enrollment to first come, first served to ensure the we maintain the 6ft distance recommended for unmasked, unvaccinated students.  Requiring masks during CCD allows us to accommodate all of our parish's students. Without appropriate safety measures, we would be unable to fulfill our promise of providing the safest environment possible for students and employees. 
  • It remains that all students and volunteers are required to wear face coverings.
  • Accommodations may be made for volunteers and students who may be unable to wear face coverings due to special and/or medical needs.
• Teach and reinforce Health Hygiene:
  • SIGNS IN BATHROOMS, CLASSROOMS AND HALLS and announcements
  • Encourage staff and students to cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue. Used tissues should be thrown in the trash and hands washed immediately with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water are not readily available, hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol can be used.
• Adequate Supplies 
  • Designated Supplies
    • Keep each child’s belongings separated from others’ 
• Water Systems
  • All drinking fountains will be turned off. We will allow clear water bottles and water only, reusable or disposable.

• Students who are sick should stay home (regardless of illness).
• Students who have COVID-19 should stay home and remain isolated until they have recovered and have been determined to no longer be infectious according to CDC’s end of isolation criteria.
• Individuals who were in close contact of the student may be identified and contacted as part of the Office of Public Health (OPH) contact tracing process.
• Close contact of a case is a person who:** was within six feet from the student for more than 15 minutes, determined by the OPH contact tracing process.
• All individuals meeting the close contact definition should be encouraged to seek testing immediately following notification and 5 to 7 days following last contact if the initial test was negative.
• Close contacts will be asked to stay home and monitor symptoms for 14 days.

• Close contacts will be asked to stay home and monitor symptoms for 14 days.

• If no symptoms develop during quarantine AND they have a negative antigen or PCR/molecular testcollected no earlier than day 5 after their last exposure: they may quarantine for 7 days from last contact with a COVID-19 case OR
• If no symptoms develop during quarantine and no testing is done: they may quarantine for 10 days from last contact with a COVID-19 case.
• Close contacts who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19 within the last 90 days and remain asymptomatic do not need to quarantine.
• Close contacts who are fully vaccinated (i.e., ≥2 weeks following receipt of the second dose in a 2-dose series, or ≥2 weeks following receipt of one dose in a single-dose vaccine) at the time of exposure and remain asymptomatic do not need to quarantine.