For schools that participated in 2008, you should have received your initial report before the end of the 2007-2008 school year. Included in this report was a feedback form with a request for a follow-up report when it became available. At this point, we have only received requests for the follow-up report from a small number of schools. School contacts were emailed on May 5, 2009 if their school had a follow-up report available but had not yet requested it.
The follow-up report puts your individual school data in perspective. It compares your use rates for the gateway substances (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants) plus binge drinking over the past two weeks with the aggregated use rates of similar schools, and also provides this data from your last survey results, if applicable, for comparison. The second report section rates your school on several key risk and protective factors that are known to be powerful contributors to community-wide substance use rates, are highly correlated with community-level substance use scores in Illinois, and can be addressed with prevention strategies and/or programs already proven to be effective.
If you have not aready responded requesting your follow-up report be sent or would like another copy of your initial report, please email Jessica Thomas at jcthomas@chestnut.org with your name, title, school name and address where the report should be sent. We will attempt to send them before the end of the 2008-2009 school year.
To see if your school participated in 2008: http://www.illinoisyouthsurvey.org/register/2008_IYS_participation_list_9-3-08.xls
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