Health curriculum framework: human trafficking and online safety.
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Overview
This bill aims to update California’s health curriculum to better address human trafficking and online safety risks for students. It requires the Commission to include recommendations in the Health Education Framework, starting in 2027, for schools to provide annual lessons on preventing human trafficking, exploitation, and staying safe online, including recognizing deepfakes. The bill also mandates training for school staff on identifying and responding to potential cases of exploitation and online harm.
Key provisions
- Requires the Health Education Framework to include recommendations for annual, developmentally appropriate lessons on preventing human trafficking and exploitation.
- Specifies content for these lessons, including recognizing online exploitation, staying safe from sexually exploitative materials and deepfakes, and building protective factors.
- Mandates a cumulative, age-appropriate progression of these lessons from kindergarten through 12th grade.
- Requires local educational agencies to provide annual, trauma-informed training to at least three staff members on identifying and responding to human trafficking and online exploitation.
- Recommends that at least two of the trained staff members be school counselors, nurses, social workers, or psychologists.
- Instructs the training curriculum to be produced by qualified organizations with expertise in human trafficking prevention.
- Requires curriculum to be evidence-based, survivor informed, culturally responsive, and trauma responsive.
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