Article 3. In-service Training of California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 28. >> Chapter 5.6. >> Article 3.
(a) A school district shall cooperatively plan and conduct
in-service training for all school district personnel that provide
HIV prevention education, through regional planning, joint powers
agreements, or contract services.
(b) In developing and providing in-service training, a school
district shall cooperate and collaborate with the teachers of the
district who provide HIV prevention education and with the
department.
(c) In-service training shall be conducted periodically to enable
school district personnel to learn new developments in the scientific
understanding of HIV. In-service training shall be voluntary for
school district personnel who have demonstrated expertise or received
in-service training from the department or federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
(d) A school district may expand HIV in-service training to cover
the topic of comprehensive sexual health education in order for
school district personnel who provide comprehensive sexual health
education to learn new developments in the scientific understanding
of sexual health.
School districts may contract with outside consultants or
guest speakers, including those who have developed multilingual
curricula or curricula accessible to persons with disabilities, to
deliver comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention
education or to provide training for school district personnel. All
outside consultants and guest speakers shall have expertise in
comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education
and have knowledge of the most recent medically accurate research on
the relevant topic or topics covered in their instruction.