Louisiana: Prevention for Parishes and Sexual Health Components to Grade Level Expectations

Team Louisiana has had a very successful past year and hopes to be even more successful this year. Through our collaboration with SIECUS, we have been successful in developing a one-day HIV Prevention for Parishes training to conduct with local education agencies (LEAs). The purpose of this training is to provide LEAs with basic knowledge on HIV and STD Prevention and assist them with developing policies and programs to address issues specific to their parishes.

A grade-level expectation (GLE) is a statement that defines what all students should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level. GLEs add further definition to the content standards and benchmarks. Team Louisiana, through our program worked with the Department of Education’s Health Education GLE Committee to revise the GLE’s for Health Education for grades K-12. Team Louisiana was successful in developing GLEs to address Sexual Health for grades 7-12. The GLEs are in the process of being approved by our State Superintendent and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) for implementation by LEAs. We will offer trainings to Health, Physical Education, Science and other content area teachers on the Sexual Health component.

Team Louisiana has been extremely busy building capacity of LEAs and community based organizations to address HIV, STD and Teen Pregnancy Prevention.

• Contact Person: Raegan Carter Jones
• Email Address: Raegan.Jones@la.gov
• Website Address: http://www.louisianaschools.net/