1. Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Council Doug Hall Senior Vice President Pride Surveys

2. www.pridesurveys.com What is Pride Surveys? Founded 1982 in Atlanta More than 32,000 building-level surveys More than 10 million students Parent and faculty surveys

3. www.pridesurveys.com 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

4. www.pridesurveys.com Data collected Alcohol, tobacco, other drug prevalence School safety Carrying guns (at school/outside school) Gang membership School climate/Academic Achievement Suicide Obesity

5. www.pridesurveys.com Academic Achievement

6. www.pridesurveys.com 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 –10 th grade annual drug use (2005) Pride 29.7% MTF 29.8%

7. www.pridesurveys.com Pride Survey and MTF

8. www.pridesurveys.com Where Drug Use Occurs Pride Surveys data supports a community- wide response to adolescent problems

9. www.pridesurveys.com Where the guns are

10. www.pridesurveys.com What parents think and students do A powerful tool to deal with parental denial

11. www.pridesurveys.com What Faculty/Staff Say 12,700 faculty and staff members Responses from Pride Survey for Faculty/Staff Not random sample 2005-06 school year

12. www.pridesurveys.com What Faculty/Staff Say ATOD training needed –Student Refusal Skills70% –Locating and using community resources 69% –Recognizing signs and symptoms of use64%

13. www.pridesurveys.com What Faculty/Staff Say School/student safety training needed –Violence prevention 76% –Conflict Resolution 75% –Recognizing signs and symptoms of violence 75%