Random-drug-testing-meeting-with-athletes-and-parents

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Prior to participating in an extracurricular activity, students must receive instruction on:
1.
The dangers of using illegal and performance enhancing drugs –
 Pass out accompanying handout detailing the risks of performance
enhancing drugs.
 Review by resource officer of consequences of being caught with illegal
drugs.
2. The availability of intervention and treatment programs –
Davis Behavioral Health will offer five sessions
free of charge for students who test positive in a drug test.
The sessions will also include their parents. If a student
is determined to have an addiction that requires more
intense therapy, Davis Behavioral Health will offer more
intense therapy sessions or parents can choose to take their
son/daughter to another provider. It will be the parents
responsibility to pay for these sessions.
3. The importance of conducting themselves at all times in a manner befitting
their positions and responsibilities.
4. The procedures for random selection, urine sample collection, privacy
arrangements, response and consequences related to a positive result –
*Random selection –
 Each student will be assigned a number upon return of the consent
form. The number and the identity of the student to whom such a
number is assigned will be known only to authorized personnel with
a need to know.
 Selection for testing will be a random selection from the full pool of
students done through a computer program. Those names will appear
on the computer screen of the vice-principal who is in charge of the
random drug testing at that school. He will only see the names of
those students in his school.
 Each student who is tested will have his/her name go back into the
pool and could be tested multiple times.
 Student’s names remain in the pool for 360 days.
*Urine sample collection and privacy arrangements –
 A representative from LiquidSolutions will come to each school and
pick up the names of those students who will be tested that day.
 The students will come to the test site, be given a urine specimen
cup to use, and will go into the bathroom alone to produce the
specimen. The restroom used will be completely private to the
student with no one else in there.
 Prior to the student producing the urine sample, the test
administrator will ask him/her if they are taking any medications.
 The student will be allowed to return to his/her class and the test
administrator will visit the vice-principals and let him know of the
results of the testing that day.
 The test administrator will know that day within minutes if the
student tests positive from the equipment used in the testing.
*Response and consequences –
 If a student tests negative the parents will not be contacted.
 If a student tests positive, the parent will be notified by the
vice-principal and will be invited to come to the school to review the
consequences. The consequences are outlined in the Random Drug
Testing document each parent will receive at the meeting.
5. Other information concerning the drug testing program which may inform and
prepare students and alleviate concerns about the random drug testing process –
 Our three main reasons of implementing this program are:
1. the health and safety of each student
2. to prevent students from using or abusing any drug
3. to provide intervention programs for those students who test positive
in order to help them make the changes they need to make to stop
using or abusing drugs.
 A parent/guardian may contest the results of the random test and request a
second reading.
 Parents/guardians will be given an opportunity to discuss the test result and
be given an opportunity to submit additional information to a school
administrator or the laboratory.
 Each school will take the appropriate steps to protect the privacy of each
student who is selected to be tested.
 If a student tests positive, we will follow the consequences outlined in the
Random Drug Test document. Law enforcement agencies are not contacted
and involved if a student tests positive. If additional information regarding
other drug activity is shared by those testing positive, local law
enforcement agencies could become involved to investigate that
information.

All records and subsequent actions related to random drug testing will be kept in a
confidential file separate from a student’s other records and released to school
personnel only on a need to know basis, the student’s parents/guardian, and the
student. Drug test results will not be disclosed to law enforcement or juvenile
authorities without a valid and binding subpoena or other process issued by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
6. Consent form –

Before any student who is a member of one of the groups that have been
identified for random drug testing participates in any activity, the student and the
student’s parent/guardian shall sign and return a written consent form requiring
the student’s participation in random drug testing. A student is ineligible to
practice, compete, perform, or participate until this form has been completed and
returned to the school.
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