Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Council
Doug Hall Senior Vice President Pride Surveys
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
60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Pride Survey, 12th Grade Monitoring the Future (MTF), 12th Grade 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Annual Use -- Any llicit Drug
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Where Drug Use Occurs
• Pride Surveys data supports a communitywide response to adolescent problems
25 20 15 10 5 0
At School Nights We e ke nds
Whe n do yo u us e marijuana (1 2 th grade )
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Where the guns are
C arrying G uns
S chool
O side ut
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What parents think and students do
• A powerful tool to deal with parental denial
45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0
Alcohol Drugs
8 th grade rs s e lf re po rt Pare ntal pe rce ptio n
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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%
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