Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 20 - Community Health › Subchapter 10 - Screening, Medical Services, and Reporting › Part 4 - School Health Programs › Section 216-RICR-20-10-4.7 - Mandated Health Instructional Outcomes

Current through June 14, 2024
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.