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Comprehensive Health Education
Comprehensive Health Education
Health Education provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to be healthy throughout their lifetime. The intent of a comprehensive health education program is to motivate students to maintain and improve their health, prevent disease, and avoid or reduce health related risk behaviors.
Comprehensive health education addresses 12 component areas under Florida State Statute 1003.42 (2)(n) - Required Instruction
Community health
Consumer health
Environmental health
Family life
Injury prevention and safety
Internet safety
Mental and emotional health
Nutrition
Personal health
Prevention and control of disease
Substance use and abuse
Teen dating violence
The Florida Standards for Health Education are based upon established health behavior theories, models, and evidence-based research, as well as "best practices." The revised NGSSS for Health Education yielded the reformatted eight standards in K-12 progression and adopted the following corresponding National Health Education Skills and corresponding standards:
Core Concepts- Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Internal and External Influence- Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.
Accessing Information- Demonstrate the ability to access valid health information, products, and services to enhance health.
Interpersonal Communication- Demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal-communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Decision Making- Demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
Goal Setting- Demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance health.
Self-Management- Demonstrate the ability to practice advocacy, health-enhancing behaviors, and avoidance or reduction of health risks for oneself.
Advocacy- Demonstrate the ability to advocate for individual, peer, school, family, and community health.
Mental & Emotional Health Education Related Rule Information
Mental & Emotional Health Education Related Rule Information
- Health Education Related Rule Information
6A-1.094124 Mental and Emotional Health Education
(1) School districts must annually provide a minimum of five (5) hours of instruction to students in grades 6-12 related to youth mental health awareness and assistance, including suicide prevention and the impacts of substance abuse.
(2) Using the health education standards adopted in Rule 6A-1.09401, F.A.C., Student Performance Standards, the instruction for youth mental and emotional health will advance each year through developmentally appropriate instruction and skill building and must address, at a minimum, the following topics:
(a) Recognition of signs and symptoms of mental health disorders;
(b) Prevention of mental health disorders;
(c) Mental health awareness and assistance;
(d) How to reduce the stigma around mental health disorders;
(e) Awareness of resources, including local school and community resources;
(f) The process for accessing treatment;
(g) Strategies to develop healthy coping techniques;
(h) Strategies to support a peer, friend, or family member with a mental health disorder; (i) Prevention of suicide; and (
j) Prevention of the abuse of and addiction to alcohol, nicotine, and drugs.
(3) By December 1 of each year, each school district must submit an implementation plan to the commissioner
In November 2020, the State Board of Education updated the Required Instruction Rule (6A-1.094124) to include the three rules related to health education. By December 1, 2020, district plans for the three health topics of 1) mental and emotional health, 2) substance use and abuse and 3) child trafficking prevention must be submitted using the portal.. The memorandum regarding this update sent from Chancellor Jacob Oliva on November 20, 2020 is linked here.
BPS_WELLNESS_EDUCATION_WEBSITE_11.21.19.pdfBrevard Public Schools
Brevard Public Schools
Information related to the state board rules.
Human Trafficking Awareness
Human Trafficking Awareness
Human trafficking is defined under Florida law as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjugation to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, slavery, or a commercial sex act. Human trafficking is modern slavery.
If you suspect a child is a victim, please call the Florida Abuse Hotline at 1-800-96-ABUSE or 911.
For more information and resources, please visit the FDOE Human Trafficking webpage: http://www.fldoe.org/schools/healthy-schools/human-trafficking.stml
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