216 R.I. Code R. 216-RICR-20-10-4.7

Current through November 21, 2024

Section 216-RICR-20-10-4.7 - Mandated Health Instructional Outcomes

A. Pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-22-4, the health education curriculum must be based on the Rhode Island Health Education Framework: Health Literacy for All Students standards and consistent with the mandated health instructional outcomes incorporated at §§ 4.2(A) and (B) of this Part, and must be evidence based. These outcomes must pertain to no less than the following required content area topics appropriate to grade or developmental level:

1. Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Substance Abuse: the causes, effects, treatment and prevention of the use of tobacco and abuse of alcohol and other drugs, including but not limited to information that mixing opioids and alcohol can cause accidental death, pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 16-22-3, 16-22-4, 16-22-12, 1 6-1-5(14), and 35-4-18;

2. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): the procedures and proper techniques for CPR, automated external defibrillator (AED), and the Heimlich Maneuver, pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 16-22-15 and 16-22-16;

3. Child Abuse: the signs, symptoms and resources available for assistance;

4. Community Health: the significance of the relationship between the individual and the community, and the impact that individual health has on the community's health within a framework of geographical, social, cultural, and political factors;

5. Consumer Health: the factors involved in decision-making, selecting, evaluating, accessing and utilizing health information, products and services;

6. Environmental Health: environmental factors that affect the health of individuals and society, strategies to minimize the negative effects of the environment on the community and its members, and the importance of protecting and improving all aspects of the environment;

7. Family Life and Sexuality: responsibilities of family membership and adulthood, issues related to reproduction, abstinence, dating and dating violence, marriage, parenthood, information about sexually transmitted diseases, the law and meaning of consent, sexuality and sexual orientation, as part of comprehensive sexuality education pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-22-18.

8. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome): the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention, pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-22-17.

9. Human Growth and Development: growth and development as a process of natural progression influenced by heredity, environment, culture, and other factors and which encompasses the continuum from conception to death;

10. Mental Health: the emotional, behavioral, and social factors that influence both mental and physical health;

11. Nutrition: the role of nutrition in the promotion and maintenance of good health;

12. Physiology and Hygiene: the basic structure and functions of the human body systems, health habits, and sanitary practices for the preservation of health, pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-22-3;

13. Physical Activity: the relationship of physical activity to health and physical fitness;

14. Prevention and Control of Disease: the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of chronic and communicable diseases, with exclusion of instruction thereof pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-21-7(a).

15. Safety and Injury Prevention: the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of behaviors that can result in unintentional or intentional injury; and:

a. Suicide Prevention: the causes, effects, and treatment of behaviors related to suicide, and information that mixing opioids and alcohol can cause accidental death, pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws §§ 16-22-4 and 16-22-14.

b. Teen Dating Violence (grades seven (7) through twelve (12)): defining dating violence, recognizing dating violence warning signs and characteristics of healthy relationships, as stipulated in R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-22-24, and as defined in this Part.

(1) Students must be provided with the school district's dating violence policy in accordance with R.I. Gen. Laws § 16-21-30(c).

(2) Upon written request to the school principal, and within a reasonable period after the request is made, a parent or legal guardian of a student less than eighteen (18) years of age must be permitted to examine the dating violence education program instruction materials at the school in which the student is enrolled.

216 R.I. Code R. 216-RICR-20-10-4.7

Amended effective 4/11/2022