• California Healthy Youth Act Webinar

    The webinar is one of the required SHE Training Program modules and provides an overview of the requirements of the California Healthy Youth Act, the law that mandates comprehensive sexual health education in California. The module is presented as a four-part recorded webinar featuring Sharla Smith, Health Education Consultant from the California Department of Education. It takes approximately one hour to complete. The webinar can be accessed by visiting the SHE Training Program webpage or through this direct link.

    View the Webinar

  • Sexual Health Educator (SHE) Training Program

    The Sexual Health Educator (SHE) Training Program is a free educational and capacity-building opportunity for California educators working with youth in school, community, and clinical settings who desire to build their sexual health knowledge and education skills. Upon the successful completion of the program’s required and elective modules, participants will receive a Certificate of Completion. This program was created by sexual health educators, trainers, and experts from: the California Department of Public Health, STD Control Branch; the California Department of Education; the California Prevention Training Center; and other partner organizations. The required and elective modules include up-to-date information and research on a variety of priority sexual health topics.

    Visit the Program Webpage

  • Students' Rights and Resources List (Template) & Instruction Guide

    Populate the front of the template using the Instruction Guide with resources specific to your community where your students may access health, mental health, sexual assault, drug and alcohol services and LGBTQ support. Statewide minor rights are described on the reverse side along with phone numbers of hotlines. Providing this handout to students helps to meet the requirement of the California Health Youth Act to inform students about their "local resources, how to access local resources, and pupils' legal rights to access local resources".

    Download the Template

  • Resources to Support Implementation of the California Healthy Youth Act

    This resource list was put together by the Tools and Training committee of ASHWG to help district administrators, teachers, parents or others seeking current resources for implementing comprehensive sexual health education in California.

    Download the Resources

  • Compliance Assessment Tool

    This Compliance Assessment Tool (CAT) for the California Healthy Youth Act supports assessment of compliance of a curriculum and all supplemental materials for teaching sexual health education to students of a publicly funded high school or middle school. Further directions for how to use the CAT can be found in the beginning of the document under the “notes to the reviewer” section. This tool has been modified to include the additions to California Healthy Youth Act that went into effect January 1, 2018.

    Download the Tool

  • School Health Profiles Survey: STD/HIV Prevention Policies (Infographic)

    View highlights from the 2014 School Health Profiles Survey including the policies and practices of California schools in teaching sexual health education.

    View the Data

  • Core Competencies

    Download the “Core Competencies for Providers of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs/Services” manual and companion pieces.

    Download the Core Compentencies

California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) Curricula Review Process

Curricula Review Now Closed

The California Healthy Kids Resource Center (CHKRC), in conjunction with the Adolescent Sexual Health Work Group (ASHWG) has completed the 2020 Curriculum Review for compliance with the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) of 2016 and updates from 2019. Reviews will be posted here soon.

The California Healthy Youth Act Curriculum Assessment Tool (CHYA CAT) (see Self Review below) used in the 2020-2021 reviews are what school districts should use when reviewing curricula because it is up to date with the current law. School Districts should be sure to complete a local Self Review (see below) of curricula with this version of the CHYA CAT before adoption and implementation, especially if using a curricula which was reviewed in the 2016 or 2017 review, but not the 2020-2021 review as the law was updated in 2019.

Future curricula reviews will be dependent upon any legislative change to the California Healthy Youth Act and/or substantive new developments in the field of comprehensive sexual health education.

  • Once the reviews are complete, the California Healthy Kids Resource Center will contact the publishers.

  • The curricula review will be posted to the California Healthy Kids CHKRC website https://californiahealthykids.net/home as well as the ASHWG Website.

Self-Review Process

Curriculum authors, publishers and Local Education Agencies can do a self- review of curricula for compliance with the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA), using the Compliance Assessment Tool (CAT) for CHYA, carefully indicating the lesson number/title, page(s) number and line numbers where the curriculum meets the criteria outlined by California Healthy Youth Act.

For assistance or questions about with curricula compliance, please contact:

(Updated 11.4.21)