N.Y. EDN Law § 804-A

§ 804-a. Comprehensive school health education demonstration program.\n1. Within the amounts appropriated, the commissioner is hereby\nauthorized to establish a demonstration program and to distribute state\nfunds to local school districts, boards of cooperative educational\nservices and in certain instances community school districts, for the\ndevelopment, implementation, evaluation, validation, demonstration and\nreplication of exemplary comprehensive health education programs to\nassist the public schools in developing curricula, training staff, and\naddressing local health education needs of students, parents, and staff.\n 2. School districts or BOCES may contract with appropriate agencies or\norganizations to participate in such program. Such program shall be\nlimited to health education at the elementary level and shall be\ndesigned on a multi-year basis. Such program shall include but not be\nlimited to the following components:\n a. Developer grants for comprehensive school health education\nprograms.\n (i) Such grants shall include the development, implementation, and\nevaluation of a comprehensive health education program including such\nactivities as:\n (A) coordination of health instruction with other available programs\nin the school and the community related to health education;\n (B) provision of inservice training and materials for elementary level\nschool teachers in comprehensive health education;\n (C) development and implementation of evaluation procedures to measure\nstudents' knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes prior to and after\nproject implementation; and\n (D) development and implementation of a mechanism for project\nmaintenance and long-range programming.\n (ii) Upon successful completion of the above activities and the\navailability of funds, such grant recipients will assist other local\neducational agencies with replication.\n b. Health education regional training centers. Regional training\ncenters for the purpose of developing materials and providing training\nprograms to meet the needs of teachers statewide in the implementation\nof comprehensive school health education programs at the elementary\nlevel will be established.\n c. Statewide advocacy for comprehensive health education. Development\nand implementation of a statewide advocacy program to create an\nawareness on the part of school administrators of the need to develop\nstrategies for implementing comprehensive school health education\nprograms at the elementary level.\n d. Replication of validated health education programs. Grants will be\nawarded to local school districts or boards of cooperative educational\nservices for the replication of nationally or state-validated exemplary\nhealth education programs.\n