Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Education In the required, one-half-credit high school course, students are to receive instruction in CPR from instructors certified by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross (Code of Alabama, 1975, §16-40-8).

The Alabama Course of Study: Health Education addresses the foundational knowledge and skills for a comprehensive school health program. It incorporates the eight major health content areas necessary for a successful school health program. These areas are consumer and community health, environmental health, family health, personal health and safety, mental and emotional health, nutrition, prevention and control of disease, and substance use and abuse.

(a) Effective upon the effective dates of this section, all students enrolled in health classes in the tenth grade in the public schools of Alabama shall receive instruction in the techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hereinafter referred to as “CPR.”

Injury prevention plan of Alabama.