The class focus is on the prevention of major adolescent health problems of depression and suicide, body image, eating disorders, and family life components. Students will learn to apply the components of personal well-being to develop lifelong wellness skills and strategies. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply prevention and treatment knowledge, skills, and strategies to reduce susceptibility and manage disease. Students will develop the ability to use nutrition and fitness knowledge, skills, and strategies to promote a healthy lifestyle. Students will exhibit the ability to use drug knowledge, decision- making skills, and health enhancing strategies to address the non-use, use, and abuse of drugs including steroids, as well the classification of drugs. During the Family Life/STI Prevention Unit (parental permission required) students will evaluate the components of healthy relationships, identify abstinence as the surest way to prevent pregnancy and STI’s, and describe methods of contraception, including their effectiveness. Students will identify techniques to avoid being sexually harassed/ assaulted, the consequences of sexually harassing/assaulting others, and understand the responsibilities of a witness to sexual assault/harassment. All family life curricular materials are reviewed by a Family Life Advisory Committee.