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Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory
CouncilDoug Hall
Senior Vice PresidentPride Surveys
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What is Pride Surveys?
• Founded 1982 in Atlanta• More than 32,000 building-level
surveys• More than 10 million students• Parent and faculty surveys
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Family of Surveys
• Pride Survey for Grades 6-12• Pride Survey for Grades 4-6• Pride Survey for Faculty/Staff• Pride Survey for Parents• Risk and Protective Factor Survey• Communities That Care Youth Survey
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Data collected
• Alcohol, tobacco, other drug prevalence• School safety• Carrying guns (at school/outside school)• Gang membership• School climate/Academic Achievement• Suicide• Obesity
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Academic Achievement
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How do you know they are telling the truth?• Test-retest
– 97% exact agreement for cocaine use• Built-in “lie detector”
– Fake drug– Internal inconsistency
• Iteration studies– 10th grade annual drug use (2005)
• Pride 29.7%• MTF 29.8%
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Pride Survey and MTF
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Pride Survey, 12th Grade Monitoring the Future (MTF), 12th Grade
Annual Use -- Any llicit Drug
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Where Drug Use Occurs
• Pride Surveys data supports a community-wide response to adolescent problems
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At School Nights Weekends
When do youuse marijuana(12th grade)
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Where the guns are
School Outside
Carrying Guns
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What parents think and students do• A powerful tool to deal with parental
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Alcohol Drugs
8th gradersself reportParentalperception
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• 12,700 faculty and staff members• Responses from Pride Survey for
Faculty/Staff• Not random sample• 2005-06 school year
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• ATOD training needed– Student Refusal Skills
70%– Locating and using community
resources 69%– Recognizing signs and symptoms of use
64%
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• School/student safety training needed– Violence prevention
76%– Conflict Resolution
75%– Recognizing signs and symptoms of
violence 75%
