Parent Letters

Sample parent letters can be used as part of your strategy to offer informed consent to parents/guardians before presenting child abuse prevention education. In Texas, schools are required by law to provide child abuse antivictimization education (TEC §38.004) and programs to raise awareness of how to prevent child sexual abuse and other forms of child maltreatment (TEC §38.0041). Furthermore, under Texas law, parents have a right to review and/or purchase all curriculum materials adopted by schools to teach child abuse prevention, and must provide written consent before their children may participate in lessons about child abuse prevention, relationship violence prevention, sex trafficking prevention, and human sexuality education (TEC §28.004).

Stand Strong • Stay Safe includes lessons on child abuse prevention: Early Childhood lessons 3 and 4, Lower Elementary lessons 3 and 4, and Upper Elementary lesson 4. If your school receives guidance from the Texas Education Agency, please ensure that parents/guardians have provided their opt-in consent before students participate in these lessons. Use the letters below as a starting place and edit as you see fit. Depending on your district's guidance, the other lessons in the program may not require opt-in consent (Early Childhood lesson 1 and 2; Lower Elementary lessons 1 and 2; and Upper Elementary lesson 1, 2, 3, and 5.)