MO SB587

School districts and charter schools may establish age-appropriate domestic violence education curricula with components including awareness, healthy relationship promotion, and identification of victim and perpetrator signs

Curriculum may address risk factors for domestic violence perpetration including history of violence, childhood exposure to violence, substance abuse, and unemployment or stress-causing life events

Schools may include information about types of domestic violence (physical, sexual, threats, emotional, verbal, financial abuse) and health consequences including injury, mental health issues, suicide attempts, and sexually transmitted diseases

Curriculum may cover how victims can seek assistance, how friends and family can help, and societal costs of domestic violence including increased medical care and mental health service needs

School districts may collaborate with federal agencies, state and local health departments, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and private industry to develop curricula