Standards*

Using Safe Dates will help you meet the following national academic standards:

Sixth–Eighth Grade Health Education Standards:

  • Describe the influence of culture on health beliefs, practices and behaviors.
  • Describe how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
  • Analyze how messages from media influence health behaviors.
  • Analyze the influence of technology on personal and family health.
  • Explain how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
  • Access valid health information from home, school and community.
  • Describe situations that may require professional health services.
  • Apply effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills to enhance health.
  • Demonstrate refusal and negotiation skills that avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Demonstrate effective conflict management or resolution strategies.
  • Demonstrate how to ask for assistance to enhance the health of self and others.
  • Identify circumstances that can help or hinder healthy decision making.
  • Explain the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health behaviors.
  • Demonstrate healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.
  • Demonstrate behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.
  • State a health-enhancing position on a topic and support it with accurate information.
  • Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.
  • Identify ways that health messages and communication techniques can be altered for different audiences.

Ninth-Twelfth Grade Health Education Standards:

  • Analyze how the culture supports and challenges health beliefs, practices and behaviors.
  • Analyze how peers influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
  • Evaluate the effect of media on personal and family health.
  • Evaluate the impact of technology on personal, family and community health.
  • Analyze how the perceptions of norms influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
  • Use resources from home, school and community that provide valid health information.
  • Determine when professional health services may be required.
  • Use skills for communicating effectively with family, peers and others to enhance health.
  • Demonstrate refusal, negotiation and collaboration skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
  • Demonstrate strategies to prevent, manage or resolve interpersonal conflicts without harming self or others.
  • Demonstrate how to ask for and offer assistance to enhance the health of self and others.
  • Examine barriers that can hinder healthy decision making.
  • Analyze the role of individual responsibility for enhancing health.
  • Demonstrate a variety of healthy practices and behaviors that will maintain or improve the health of self and others.
  • Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks to self and others.
  • Use accurate peer and societal norms to formulate a health-enhancing message.
  • Demonstrate how to influence and support others to make positive health choices.
  • Adapt health messages and communication techniques to specific target audience.

* Standards are taken from The Joint Committee on National Health Education Standards. National Health Education Standards: Achieving Excellence (2nd edition). Atlanta: The American Cancer Society, 2007.