California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 4 - Preventive Medical Service › Subchapter 13 - Child Health and Disability Prevention Program › Article 4 - Required Services › Section 6842 - Outreach and Health Education

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Plan. Each
					 community child health and disability prevention program shall develop, plan and
					 implement community outreach and health education activities which are related to
					 the community's needs and resources. Activities may include, but are not limited to,
					 community organization, staff training, consultation with children and families,
					 staff services to community child health and disability prevention program advisory
					 boards, and the development and dissemination of informational and educational
					 material for the public, potential users and providers of the program's services,
					 advisory board members, local agencies and community groups.
(b) Outreach. An outreach program shall be as
					 follows:
(1) Community child health and disability
					 prevention programs shall develop outreach programs to involve persons in the use of
					 preventive health services. Outreach and health education services shall be designed
					 to ensure that the only reason eligible persons do not participate in the health
					 assessment and referral for diagnosis and treatment portions of the program is
					 because they intelligently and knowingly decline such participation for reasons
					 unrelated to availability and accessibility of the health assessment, diagnosis and
					 treatment services.
(2) In cooperation
					 with the community child health and disability prevention program, the governing
					 body of every school district or private school which has children enrolled in
					 kindergarten shall, at the time the parent or guardian registers a child in
					 kindergarten, inform the parents or guardians as follows:
(A) It is statutorily required that children
					 provide, within 90 days after entrance into the first grade, either a certificate to
					 the school documenting that within the prior 18 months the child has received the
					 appropriate health assessment required by law, or a waiver signed by the parent or
					 guardian indicating that they do not want or are unable to obtain such health
					 assessments for their children.
(B) The
					 health assessment that is required is available from the child's usual source of
					 health care, the local health department, some schools and other places in the
					 community.
(C) Rather than wait until
					 the child actually enters first grade, it is advisable to get the health assessment
					 as early as possible, preferably within six months prior to kindergarten entrance,
					 at which time it is also required that the child's immunizations (a part of the
					 total health assessment) be brought up to date.
(3) The parents or guardians of children entering
					 the first grade who do not have documentation that the appropriate health assessment
					 has been done or waived shall be informed by the school at that time as follows:
(A) It is statutorily required that children
					 provide, within 90 days after entrance into the first grade, either a certificate to
					 the school documenting that within the prior 18 months the child has received the
					 appropriate health assessment required by law, or a waiver signed by the parent or
					 guardian indicating that they do not want or are unable to obtain such health
					 assessments for their children.
(B) The
					 health assessment that is required is available from the child's usual source of
					 health care, the local health department, some schools and other places in the
					 community.