San Diego, California
San Diego Unified School District receives funding from CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health to
- Conduct the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
- Implement effective policies, programs, and practices to avoid, prevent, and reduce
sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to HIV infection,
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and pregnancy.
- Implement effective policies, programs, and practices to prevent and reduce asthma episodes and absences among students with asthma.
Facts and Figures for San Diego
Youth Risk Behavior Survey
Youth Online: Interactive Data for San Diego
School Health Profiles
School Health Policies and Practices Study
HIV, STD, and Unintended Pregnancy Prevention |
San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that deliver HIV, STD, or pregnancy prevention programs (including after school or supplemental programs) that meet the needs of ethnic/racial minority youth at high risk (e.g., black, Hispanic, or American Indian youth) by doing all of the following:
- Providing curricula or supplementary materials that include pictures, information, and learning experiences that reflect the life experiences of these youth in their communities.
- Providing curricula or supplementary materials in the primary languages of the youth and families.
- Facilitating access to direct health services or arrangements with providers not on school property who have experience in serving these youth in the community.
- Facilitating access to direct social services and psychological services or arrangements with providers not on school property who have experience in serving these youth in the community.
- Requiring professional development for school staff on HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention issues and resources for these youth.
Activities
- Provide professional development for 20 districts and community partner staff on the American Psychological Association’s Healthy Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students Project.
- Develop a California resource guide based on Michigan’s “A Silent Crisis: Resource Guide for Educators” toolkit to create safe campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning youth.
- Deliver comprehensive sex education and HIV and STD instruction to five school sites with disproportionate populations of students at risk for HIV and STD infection.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that deliver HIV, STD, and pregnancy prevention programs (including after school or supplemental programs) that meet the needs of ethnic/racial minority youth at high risk
Table
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Map†
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San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the lead health education teacher received professional development during the past 2 years on all of the following:
- Describing how widespread HIV and other STD infections are and the consequences of these infections.
- Understanding the modes of transmission and effective prevention strategies for HIV and other STDs.
- Identifying populations of youth who are at high risk of being infected with HIV and other STDs.
- Implementing health education strategies using prevention messages that are likely to be effective in reaching youth.
Activities
- Provide training to 70 new teachers and new community staff on effective HIV prevention strategies and effective prevention messages for reaching youth.
- Meet with school-level administrators to develop an individualized HIV prevention implementation plan.
- Model best practices for teaching HIV/AIDS lessons for secondary health and resource teachers.
- Provide training for youth in two peer education programs on effective HIV prevention strategies and consequences HIV and other STD infections.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education teacher received professional development during the 2 years before the survey on four key HIV prevention topics
Table
[pdf 4.2M] |
Map†
[ppt] |
San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools in which the lead health education teacher received professional development on at least six of the following during the past 2 years:
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with physical, medical, or cognitive disabilities.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students of various cultural backgrounds.
- Using interactive teaching methods for HIV prevention education, such as role plays or cooperative group activities.
- Teaching essential skills for health behavior change related to HIV prevention and guiding student practice of these skills.
- Teaching about health-promoting social norms and beliefs related to HIV prevention.
- Strategies for involving parents, families, and others in student learning of HIV prevention education.
- Assessing students’ performance in HIV prevention education.
- Implementing standards-based HIV prevention education curricula and student assessment.
- Using technology to improve HIV prevention education instruction.
- Teaching HIV prevention to students with limited English proficiency.
- Addressing community concerns and challenges related to HIV prevention education.
Activities
- Provide training to 70 new teachers and new community staff on effective HIV prevention strategies and effective prevention messages for reaching youth.
- Meet with school-level administrators to develop an individualized HIV prevention implementation plan.
- Model best practices for teaching HIV/AIDS lessons for secondary health and resource teachers.
- Provide training for youth in two peer education programs on effective HIV prevention strategies and consequences HIV and other STD infections.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools in which the lead health education teacher received professional development during the 2 years before the survey on at least 6 of 11 key HIV prevention topics
Table
[pdf 4.2M]
| Map†
[ppt] |
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San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that have on file an asthma action plan for all students with known asthma.
Activities
- Work with 50 schools on increasing the number of asthma action plans on file.
- Disseminate information to teachers and parents on collecting student asthma information.
- Provide technical assistance for nurses within the 50 targeted schools on how to increase the number of asthma action plans collected.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that had an asthma action plan on file for all students with known asthma
Table
[pdf 4.2M]
| Map†
[ppt] |
San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that provide intensive case management for students with poorly controlled asthma at school. These intensive services should include all of the following:
- Providing referrals to primary healthcare clinicians or child health insurance programs.
- Ensuring an appropriate written asthma action plan is obtained.
- Ensuring access to and appropriate use of asthma medications, spacers, and peak flow meters at school.
- Offering asthma education for the student with asthma and his/her family.
- Minimizing asthma triggers in the school environment.
- Addressing social and emotional issues related to asthma.
- Providing additional psychosocial counseling or support services as needed.
- Ensuring access to safe, enjoyable physical education and activity.
- Ensuring access to preventive medications before physical activity.
Activities
- Increase referrals from school nurses, community clinics, and public health nurses for home visits for children with poorly controlled asthma to identify triggers in their home environment.
- Make referrals to the City of San Diego Healthy Homes Project for home repairs as needed, based on home visits and environmental assessments.
- Provide follow-up support and home visit reports to district asthma coordinator and school nurses.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that provided intensive case management for students with poorly controlled asthma at school
Table
[pdf 4.2M] |
Map†
[ppt] |
San Diego is seeking to increase the percentage of schools that provide parents and families of students with asthma information to increase their knowledge about asthma management.
Activities
- Implement Open Airways Asthma Management classes in local elementary and middle schools across the district.
- Offer parent-centered meetings for parents of students with asthma to connect them with asthma-related services, including the City of San Diego Healthy Homes Project and district resources.
Status
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Percentage of secondary schools that provided parents and families of students with health information to increase their knowledge of asthma
Table
[pdf 4.2M]
| Map†
[ppt] |
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† The complete PowerPoint and PDF documents are found
here. The PowerPoint documents range in size from 200-230K.
