education. Jenna’s Law as it currently stands, is geared largely toward educating school district employees to the signs, symptoms and procedures for recognizing and the handling of child sexual abuse, maltreatment and sex trafficking victims. Necessitate the Policy Review of state education records supplemented by federal crime data indicated between fall 2011 and spring 2015, approximately 17,000 official reports of peer-on-peer sexual assaults occurred on school campuses in the United States . According to McDowell et al. (2017), schools ranked as the second highest location for the prevalence of juvenile peer-on-peer sexual victimization. On school property, student-on-student attacks” occur more frequently “sexual than adult-on-child sexual assaults. For each sexual assault perpetrated by an adult on school property, seven student-on-student sexual assaults occurred . School based education programs as a means of primary prevention of child sexual abuse have shown an increase in students’ knowledge and personal-protective skills . The Texas Education Code (TEC), Chapter 38, section 38.0041, subsection C, outlines required sexual abuse and other maltreatment training schools must include to raise awareness of the issues. The specific requirements of training as outlined in subsections C1 and C2 dictate yearly training must be provided for new and existing school employees. There are no existing requirements within TEC Chapter 38, section 38.0041 mandating students receive any Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) prevention education training. Chapter 38, section 38.0041 needs to be amended to include students in required yearly training. According to Morris et al. , the ability for schools to reach large populations of students make it an ideal location for effective delivery of CSA prevention education in a cost-effective manner. Data compiled by the National Center for Educational Statistics for the 2015-2016 school year ranked Texas 2nd in the nation in public
education. Jenna’s Law as it currently stands, is geared largely toward educating school district employees to the signs, symptoms and procedures for recognizing and the handling of child sexual abuse, maltreatment and sex trafficking victims. Necessitate the Policy Review of state education records supplemented by federal crime data indicated between fall 2011 and spring 2015, approximately 17,000 official reports of peer-on-peer sexual assaults occurred on school campuses in the United States . According to McDowell et al. (2017), schools ranked as the second highest location for the prevalence of juvenile peer-on-peer sexual victimization. On school property, student-on-student “sexual attacks” occur more frequently than adult-on-child sexual assaults. For each sexual assault perpetrated by an adult on school property, seven student-on-student sexual assaults occurred . School based education programs as a means of primary prevention of child sexual abuse have shown an increase in students’ knowledge and personal-protective skills . The Texas Education Code (TEC), Chapter 38, section 38.0041, subsection C, outlines required sexual abuse and other maltreatment training schools must include to raise awareness of the issues. The specific requirements of training as outlined in subsections C1 and C2 dictate yearly training must be provided for new and existing school employees. There are no existing requirements within TEC Chapter 38, section 38.0041 mandating students receive any Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) prevention education training. Chapter 38, section 38.0041 needs to be amended to include students in required yearly training. According to Morris et al. , the ability for schools to reach large populations of students make it an ideal location for effective delivery of CSA prevention education in a cost-effective manner. Data compiled by the National Center for Educational Statistics for the 2015-2016 school year ranked Texas 2nd in the nation in public
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