EWCSD Comprehensive Sexual Health Education

2024-2025 School Year: 

Our Middle School Parent Preview Presentation about Rights, Respect, Responsibility (3Rs) Curriculum for our EWCSD 7th Graders is April 11th, 2025 at 6pm at the EWCSD District Offices toward the back of the parking lot in the Dorothy Fagan Ed Center. 

Nuestra vista previa de los lecciones para padres es el 11 de abril, 2025, a las 6:00 p.m. en las oficinas del distrito de EWCSD hacia la parte trasera del estacionamiento en el Centro Educativo Dorothy Fagan.

If you cannot make the Parent Preview Night, please review the East Whittier City School District Parent Preview Night and the PowerPoint presentation from LACOE below, review this entire website and curriculum below.

The California Healthy Youth Act (AB 329) took effect January 2016.  This law expands on existing laws regarding comprehensive sexual health education and HIV/AIDS prevention education.  Previously, districts were only required to provide HIV prevention education. California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA), requires that comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education be provided to students at least once in middle school or junior high school and once in high school, starting in 7th grade.

Instruction must encourage students to communicate with parents, guardians, or other trusted adults about human sexuality. Instruction must be medically accurate, age‐appropriate, and inclusive of all students. It must include the following:

• Information about HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including transmission, FDA approved methods to prevent HIV and STIs, and treatment.

• Information that abstinence is the only certain way to prevent unintended pregnancy and HIV and other STIs, and information about the value of delaying sexual activity.

• Discussion about social views of HIV and AIDS.

• Information about accessing resources for sexual and reproductive health care.

• Information about pregnancy, including FDA, approved prevention methods, pregnancy outcomes, prenatal care, and the newborn safe surrender law.

• Information about sexual orientation and gender, including the harm of negative gender stereotypes.

• Information about healthy relationships and avoiding unhealthy behaviors and situations.

In East Whittier City School District, we teach sexual health education in Grade 7. We do not serve students in grades 9-12. Please contact Whittier Union High School District for their program for high school students. 

We acknowledge the personal nature of this decision and are available to help answer your questions. If you need assistance accessing the curriculum please email Dr. Trena Gonzalez at tgonzalez@ewcsd.org.

For more information and resources about the California Healthy Youth Act, California Education Code (EC) sections 51930–51939, please visit the our RESOURCES section or 562-907-5978.

If you have questions regarding this instruction, please email:

• Your child's 7th grade Science teacher

• School nurse

• School Counselor-Social Worker

• Principal