1. Presenting the Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth (MiPHY)
Michigan Department of Education

2. We’ll Cover: Importance and features of local needs assessment
Advocate for local needs assessment
A resource for local needs assessment: MiPHY
Comparison of MiPHY and Michigan YRBS

3. Importance of Data: State Level
Michigan Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS)
Drives decision making for health prevention and promo throughout the state
Directly supports Safe and Drug-Free Schools (SDFS) funding, teen health centers, family resource centers, Michigan Model for Health®, school resource officers
Provides evidence to federal level to sustain funding for state health prevention and promotion programs
Provides benchmarks for local level data
Demonstrates connection between health behaviors and academic achievement

4. Importance of Data: Local Level
Why?
Communities and schools across MI want/need local data to inform a variety of efforts:
Community-wide prevention efforts
Community collaboratives
Community anti-drug coalitions
Regional Substance Abuse Coordinating Agencies
Title V Delinquency Prevention
Local public health
Title IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act and Governor’s Discretionary Grant (GDG) programs
Coordinated School Health Programs
District/School improvement (e.g., MI Education Yes)

5. Importance of Data: Local Level
“Without data you’re just another schmuck with an opinion.”
"Without data, you are just another shmuck with an opinion"
Without data, we're just another schmuck with an opinion. -- D. Chris Anderson, PhD OR
Alan Greenspan
D. Chris Anderson, PhD

6. Local Needs Assessment: The First Step in Prevention
SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework

7. Key Features of Local Needs Assessment
Describe the makeup and history of the community to provide a context within which to collect data on its current concerns.
Describe what matters to local people
Describe the needs identified by community stakeholders
Compile and describe the evidence suggesting that identified issues should be a priority
Describe the resources available in or to the community that help address this issue
Source: Community Tool Box, University of Kansas.

8. Getting Traction with Local Needs Assessment
Build recognition of and support for the need for some type of initiative and action
Involve critical sectors and key stakeholders of the community to ensure the process is relevant for identifying actual needs
Acknowledge and validate barriers or promoters to local-level change
Develop a plan to handle potentially negative needs assessment results
Plan for time, resources, and expertise

9. Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth (MiPHY)
Why?
Best Practice for prevention science and at MDE/MDCH
Closes Capacity Gap. Most communities do not have the time, resources and/or skills to collect, enter, manage, analyze, and report drug and violence data, especially trend data
Opens up much-needed resources for other steps of a strategic prevention framework at state, regional, and local level

10. MiPHY Overview Developed by MDE in collaboration with MDCH
Meets needs assessment and reporting requirements for SDFS and aligns with school health improvement initiatives
Reduces the burden of conducting multiple student surveys
Reliable and valid
Free of charge to districts and communities
Private
Parental notification required
Third bullet – focus on this issue for superintendents and the numerous requests for surveys.
MiPHY is a virtual One-stop shop for assessing student health risk behaviors and risk/protective factors.
5th bullet – emphasize “free”
add some motion

11. MiPHY Survey Features LEA use and local-level decision making
Adapted from reliable, valid surveys (Communities that Care and Youth Risk Behavior Survey)
Offered every other year, starting in FY 2007/2008 (off year of the state YRBS)
Provided at no cost to districts
Online administration (secure site)
Grades 7, 9, and 11 (middle and high school students): census or sample populations
3rd bullet- emphasize that this is the year to sign on or wait for 2 years

12. MiPHY Survey Tool Domain Individual Peer School Family Community
Lifetime and past-30-day SU
Poor health and safety behaviors
Depression, suicide, sexual risk behavior
N/A
Age of initiation of SU
Favorable attitudes toward SU
Perceived harm of SU
Peers who engage in SU and violent behavior
Academic failure
Low commit-ment to school
Perception of school as unsafe
Parental attitudes favorable toward SU
Low neighborhood attachment
Perceived availability of drugs
Perception of neighborhood as unsafe
Belief in moral Order
Social skills
Perception of peer disapproval of substance use
Opportunities for involvement
Rewards for involvement
High family attachment
Risk Behaviors
Risk
Factors
These risk behaviors are those identified by CDC that contribute to the top causes of morbidity and mortality – includes violence, tobacco use, alcohol and drug use, sexual behaviors that lead to HIV/STDs and pregnancy, physical activity, and nutrition.
Risk and Protective factors are the leading indicators for the development of risk behaviors – canary in the coalmine
Example – academic failure leads to greater likelihood for subst use
Opportunities and rewards for school involvement leads to lower likelihood for substance use
Protective
Factors

13. Supporting Coordinated School Health
MiPHY
Health
Services
Healthy
School
Environment
Promotion
for Staff
Nutrition
Family/
Community
Involvement
Physical
Education
Counseling,
Psychological
& Social
MiPHY
MiPHY
MiPHY
The MiPHY addresses 7 of the 8 components of a Coordinated School Health program.
MiPHY
MiPHY
MiPHY

14. Supporting Coordinated School Health
MiPHY
YRBS
Health
Services
Healthy
School
Environment
Promotion
for Staff
Nutrition
Family/
Community
Involvement
Physical
Education
Counseling,
Psychological
& Social
MiPHY
YRBS
MiPHY
MiPHY
YRBS
The MiPHY addresses 7 of the 8 components of a Coordinated School Health program.
MiPHY
YRBS
MiPHY
YRBS
MiPHY
YRBS

15. Supporting Coordinated School Health
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT
Health
Services
Healthy
School
Environment
Promotion
for Staff
Nutrition
Family/
Community
Involvement
Physical
Education
Counseling,
Psychological
& Social
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT
MiPHY
HSAT
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT
HSAT
The MiPHY addresses 7 of the 8 components of a Coordinated School Health program.
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT
MiPHY
YRBS
HSAT

16. MiPHY Versions
MiPHY- all risk behavior and risk and protective factor domains
Violence Weight and nutrition
Bullying Physical activity
Alcohol Depression and suicide
Tobacco Sexual activity
Other drugs
MiPHY Basic – the MiPHY survey excluding the suicide and sexual behavior questions
Refer back to slide #2
Wouldn’t it be nice to have data-driven decision making for all of your districts health and prevention programming?
The MiPHY was designed to be that comprehensive.

23. MiPHY Report Availability
Building
District
ISD / RESA / ESA / RESD
County - schools and districts not identified
County report housed at an alternative location – anonymous participation.
All requests can be met without identifying your district.

24. Summary Tables
Graphical Reports
SID and SRSD Reports

25. Great Partners! Michigan YRBS State-level “Odd” years Grades 9-12
Risk behaviors
Trends
Provide benchmarks
MiPHY
Local-level & aggregated to county
Web-based
“Even” years (starts 2007/2008)
Grades 7, 9, 11
Risk behaviors, risk and protective factors
Great Partners!

26. Michigan Department of Education Contacts
For the MiPHY:
Bob Higgins Project Director (517)
Byron Doty Project Coordinator
(517)
Nicole Kramer
Project Specialist
(517)
For the Michigan YRBS:
Kim Kovalchick Michigan YRBS Coordinator (517)