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Title: Safe Schools/Healthy Students 2005 Report to New Hanover County School Youth Risk Behavior Survey and School Security Assessments 2005 Prepared by the UNCW Evaluation Team August 2005


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Safe Schools/Healthy Students 2005Report to
New Hanover County School Youth Risk Behavior
Surveyand School Security Assessments2005Prep
ared by the UNCW Evaluation Team August 2005
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What is Safe Schools/Healthy Students?
  • Federal partnership
  • School and community partnership
  • University partnership

3
SSHS
  • 6081 students participated in Second Step Social
    Skills/Violence Prevention curriculum
  • Including 573 three to five year olds in
    childcare centers
  • 236 received Anger Management therapy
  • 708 participated in substance abuse prevention
    classes
  • 722 received conflict resolution training in
    their schools
  • 351 received alternative to out of school
    suspension services
  • 91 received mental health therapy in their schools

4
  • Youth Risk Behavior Survey

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What is the YRBS?
  • Youth risk behavior surveys were conducted by the
    CDC and UNCW evaluators over a two week period in
    April of 2005
  • UNCW evaluators surveyed eight schools not
    already surveyed by the CDC
  • 5 classrooms in 3 high schools
  • 5 classrooms in 5 middle schools
  • Surveys examined health risk behaviors including
    violence, tobacco and alcohol use, sexual
    behavior, drug use, and psychological health

6
Materials Used
  • YRBS Survey
  • Middle School Questionnaire (49 items)
  • High School Questionnaire (87 items)
  • Scantron forms
  • Directions for questionnaire completion
  • Completely confidentialstudents put form into
    envelope

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Procedure
  • Classes were randomly selected- five from middle
    and high schools not selected by the CDC
  • Schools selected times and dates for
    administration (within a two-week period)
  • Classroom packets were assembled

8
Procedure
  • Survey Administration
  • Six Safe Schools/UNCW evaluators administered
    surveys in assigned classes, and monitored by
    SSHS staff
  • Evaluators read standardized directions to each
    class and monitored completion of the surveys by
    students
  • Administration of surveys took approximately one
    hour

9
  • Middle School Results by Category

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Violence Related Behavior
11
Alcohol Use
12
Other Drug Use
13
Sexual Behavior
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High School Results by Category
15
Violence Related Behavior
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Alcohol Use
17
Other Drug Use
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Sexual Behavior
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School Security Assessment
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What were the School Security Observations?
  • Authorization procedures
  • All New Hanover County public schools visited
    twice by two different evaluators
  • Assessed security and school climate

22
Materials Used
  • Pocket PCs
  • Hand held computers with Noldus behavioral
    observation software allowing evaluators to enter
    times and descriptions of observations

23
Procedure
  • All evaluators received approximately eleven
    weeks of training prior to observations
  • All constructs were operationally defined
    precisely in order for evaluators to become
    reliable

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Procedure
  • Evaluators were instructed to enter schools by
    the front door and continue walking until stopped
    and escorted to the office
  • If stopped but not escorted, evaluators continued
    walking
  • Those not stopped left school grounds without
    going to the office
  • Time to contact with school personnel, total time
    in school, and quality of contacts were assessed

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School Observations by Level
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Elementary School Observations
Category Not Stopped at all Stopped but not escorted Escorted Total time spent in school
Number of Evaluators 3 5 36 44 Observations
Average Length of Time 45 minutes 23 minutes 9 minutes 14 minutes (average)
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Middle School Observations
Category Not Stopped at all Stopped but not escorted Escorted Total time spent in school
Number of Evaluators 3 3 8 14 Observations
Average Length of Time 45 minutes 11 minutes 10 minutes 21 minutes (average)
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High School Observations
Category Not Stopped at all Stopped but not escorted Escorted Total time spent in school
Number of Evaluators 4 4 2 10 Observations
Average Length of Time 41 minutes 15 minutes 12 minutes 25 minutes (average)
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Summary and conclusions
  • New Hanover County students are engaging in
    violent behavior, sexual activity and drug use in
    alarming numbers
  • While consistent with North Carolina data the
    magnitude of the numbers clearly demonstrate the
    need for early sustained interventions targeting
    such behavior
  • The health and societal consequences of not
    addressing these issues are lifelong

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The good news
  • The Safe Schools/Healthy students federal grant
    initiative has programs targeting these specific
    issues.
  • The challenge is to build and sustain these
    partnerships.
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