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Reports on Student
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Using Pride data, Ohio policymakers noticed a troubling increase in inhalant usage. A successful anti-inhalant campaign was launched. Ohio was able to target its objectives by creating age-specific strategies. In a statewide follow-up survey, inhalant use had been reduced. Perhaps your school has a goal to increase parent involvement. Using a combination of the Pride Surveys for students and parents, you can establish targets and measure your success. Pride's faculty survey will help you set goals and objectives for school personnel.
The 11-school district Coastal Plains Regional Educational Services Agency is using Pride student, faculty and parent surveys to help plan its overall prevention program and to evaluate its success. “The Pride data is especially helpful in clarifying the role of school personnel, parents and community leadership,” said the agency’s director. Our 28-page report, Safe and Drug Free Schools: Evaluating School Safety and Student Drug Use with Pride Surveys, explains how Pride Surveys can assist you in evaluating your programs. Many community coalitions also depend upon Pride Surveys, including the nationally recognized effort begun by Congressman Rob Portman.
Most schools that administer Pride Surveys are commended for taking an open and evidence-based approach. After more than two decades, Pride has never found a case in which drug use was more prevalent during school than after school. You can use this information to demonstrate that behavioral problems are everyone’s responsibility. A Texas newspaper observed “only a small percentage of drug use actually occurs at school.” When Jonesboro, Arkansas, was ridiculed by the national media following a tragic shooting, local educators turned to Pride Surveys. Using Pride data they proved that Jonesboro students were less likely than US students to carry guns to school, threaten other students and be hurt at school. The shooting was an unpredictable departure from the rule.
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