California Healthy Youth Act

Education Codes 51930-51933

Comprehensive Sexual Health Education

The California Healthy Youth Act has five primary purposes:

To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to protect their sexual and reproductive health from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections and from unintended pregnancy;
To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning adolescent growth and development, body image, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, marriage, and family;
To promote understanding of sexuality as a normal part of human development;
To ensure pupils receive integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased sexual health and HIV prevention instruction and provide educators with clear tools and guidance to accomplish that end;
To provide pupils with the knowledge and skills necessary to have healthy, positive, and safe relationships and behaviors

For information on the California Healthy Youth Act, California Education Code (EC) sections 51930–51939, please visit the California Legislative Information Web Page

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BOARD POLICY & ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION 6142.1

Pursuant to BP & AR 6142.1 instruction shall be provided by instructors trained in the appropriate courses that are knowledgeable of the most recent medically accurate research on human sexuality, sexuality and sexually transmitted infections.

This means that all EGUSD teachers who are teaching Comprehensive Sexual Health Education must attend a district training on adopted Comprehensive Sexual Health Education curricula.Substitute teachers are not permitted to teach comprehensive sexual health unless they have been district-trained. Please contact the Health Program Specialist for a list of trained substitute teachers.

EGUSD Philosophy Statement regarding Comprehensive Sexual Health Education

revised October 2018