Office of Curriculum and Instructional Programs → Curriculum Subject Areas → Comprehensive Health Education
The programs offered by the Institute support schools in their efforts to integrate nutrition education, wellness policy goals, and services
into comprehensive health education, food service, school health, and physical education programs.
The overall goal of Coordinated School Health is to help schools deliver evidence -
based comprehensive health education, develop and implement health - related policies, and provide health - promoting school environments.
We shall provide every one of our 28,000
students comprehensive health education that includes medically accurate information young people need to protect themselves, which includes information around contraception, but also components around healthy relationships, abuse in relationships, and issues of consent.
Combining a strong medically accurate,
comprehensive health education curriculum that includes contraception information with strong after - school support has proven to reduce rates of teen pregnancy and the corresponding impacts to education.
As of October 31, 2017, fifteen Florida school districts have adopted
a comprehensive health education policy that includes a requirement for comprehensive reproductive and sexual health education curriculum.
Section 1003.42 (2)(n), Florida State Statutes Required Instruction -
Comprehensive health education that addresses concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; Internet safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse.