SPF Schools 2009 IYS

This year we surveyed schools in select communities who received a grant for prevention planning (SPF Schools) along with some others who have not yet participated in the past or that needed yearly data for special circumstances. For more information on the SPF project, please see our website: http://www.illinoisyouthsurvey.org/SPF-SIG/ or contact your project coordinator.

The survey period has been extended to 5/15/09 for all eligible schools in a SPF community who have not yet participated. Please be sure to schedule and administer the survey to your students on or before 5/15 and request your completed materials to be returned before 5/22. This will allow us to receive the data back from scanning and send out reports before the end of the school year. At this point, we are still waiting to receive materials back from 24 schools and for 6 schools to complete surveying online. To see a listing of schools and their progress with the 2009 IYS, please visit our website. Schools are listed by community and updated weekly on Fridays.

This year we are sending reports to the school contact via email attachment as they are available. If you would like a print copy of your report, please contact Jessica Thomas at jcthomas@chestnut.org or 309-451-7849. To maintain confidentiality reports are only sent to the individual school unless a signed release from school administration is received. To release your individual school data to an outside agency, please fill out the Release of School Results form that came with your materials and fax to 309-451-7764.

All schools who have received their report are welcome to provide feedback on this year's administration: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB228YGKUK7PN
If you have received your report but have not yet supplied feedback, please do so. We review the feedback as well as all suggestions for improvement.

Thank you to all SPF Community Coordinators for your work with the schools this year in successfully obtaining more complete data from more schools!