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º£½ÇÉçÇø provides technical assistance, resources, training, and support to schools to promote best practices in comprehensive sexual health education, including HIV/AIDS  are consistent with state requirements.

All public schools must provide comprehensive sexual health education (CSHE) to all students. This includes all students enrolled in a district or public charter school. Instruction must be consistent with Health Education K-12 Learning Standards, which provide a framework for comprehensive instruction, and the provisions of . CSHE for students in grades 4-12 is defined in the law as "recurring instruction in human development and reproduction that is medically accurate, age-appropriate and inclusive of all students...using language and strategies that recognize all protected classes." Instruction for students in grades Kindergarten-3 is defined in the law as Social-Emotional Learning.

See our CSHE Implementation page for more information.

Washington state law requires all public schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education (CSHE) in multiple grades, and annual HIV/AIDS prevention education beginning in grade 5. º£½ÇÉçÇø provides technical assistance and support to schools by promoting best practices in CSHE and HIV/AIDS prevention.

Sexual Violence Prevention

Given the impact of sexual violence on young people, schools are an important setting for recognizing and preventing sexual violence and child sexual abuse. º£½ÇÉçÇø engages in activities that support school-based sexual violence prevention within sexual health education and more broadly throughout school communities including: 

• Erin's Law Implementation (SHB 1539, 2018)
• Youth-centered Environmental Shift (YES!) Program for Middle Schools
• Professional Development for Educators
• Sexual Violence and Sex Trafficking Prevention

School Health Profiles

School Health Profiles is a survey previously conducted in Washington state every two years by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (º£½ÇÉçÇø) to assess the status of health and wellness-related policies, procedures, instruction, and environments in public secondary schools. The National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Adolescent School Health (DASH) coordinates the survey.