The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) encourages parents to remember important vaccinations for their children along with lunches, notebooks and backpacks as students begin a new school year.

Some vaccines are required for attendance at public and private schools and child care facilities in Wyoming. Kindergartners should be up-to-date on DTaP, MMR, hepatitis B, polio and varicella vaccinations. Children who are 11 through 12 years old should receive a Tdap vaccination. Depending on individual school rules, children who have not completed their required vaccinations may be put on conditional enrollment or be excluded from school.

State Health Officer D. Alexia Harrist noted cost should not be a barrier to vaccinations for Wyoming’s children.

WDH suggests families look up their children’s vaccination records in Docket, a secure website and smartphone app offered by the department. Docket can be used to create an official record of vaccinations that have been reported to the Wyoming Immunization Registry and can notify users when vaccinations are due. Docket is also available for adults in Wyoming. For more information about vaccine records, visit immunizewyoming.com and look for the “Vaccine Records and Docket” tab.