How to Modify the Community/School Health Check-up Template

• Replace all references to “Anytown” with your community/school’s name and modify the year as needed

• The template is designed to present highlights from one year of PAYS risk/protective factor scale data – the first step is to decide which data you want to highlight (see section on Risk and Protective Factors)

• After selecting which scales to highlight, you can modify the text and numbers in the below two slides accordingly

• Modify text: The text for the scale descriptions in the two slides below is taken directly from the text in your local PAYS report – feel free to shorten text as needed to fit in the boxes or modify the text boxes by clicking on them and dragging them to fit your text

• Modify numbers: – See your local report for the risk/protective factor percentages

for your chosen scales – modify the numbers above the white arrows accordingly

– See your local report for the state risk/protective factor percentages for your chosen scales –to modify the numbers below the black arrows accordingly.

• Please note that currently, all of the scores are the same across factors, but this dummy data for demonstration purposes. Your scores will be different across factors.

– Click on the score/arrow (they are grouped as one object) and adjust the placement of the white and black arrows according to the key at the top of the page based on each individual scale score.

PROTECTION SCALESHigher scores are better.

 

 

Anytown Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS) School and Community Health Check-up

Protective Factors 

It PAYS to ASK, It PAYS to KNOW.The PAYS is PA’s premier survey tool. This Check-up represents a snap-shot of the health of Anytown’s 6th, 8th, and 10th graders in 2013 . 

 

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Community Protection

Community Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement: When young people become involved in their communities by participating in activities and organizations that foster healthy development, they are more likely to form connections with prosocial peers.

Community Rewards for Prosocial Involvement: Young people experience bonding as feeling values and being seen as an asset. Students who feel recognized and rewarded by their community are less likely to engage in negative behaviors.

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School Protection

School Opportunities for Prosocial Involvement: Giving students opportunities to participate in important activities at school helps create a feeling of personal investment in their school. This results in greater bonding and adoption of school’s standards of behavior and less problem behavior.

School Rewards for Prosocial Involvement: Making students feel appreciated and rewarded for their involvement at school further strengthens school bonding, and helps reduce the likelihood of their involvement in drug use and other problem behaviors.

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Family Protection

Family Attachment: If children are attached to their parents and want to please them, they will be less likely to threaten that connection by doing things that their parentsstrongly disapprove of.

Family Rewards for Prosocial Involvement: When family members reward their children for positive participation in activities, it further strengthens the bonds the children feel to their families, and helps promote clear standards for behavior.

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RISK SCALESLower scores are better.

 

 

It PAYS to ASK, It PAYS to KNOW.The PAYS is PA’s premier survey tool. This Check-up represents a snap-shot of the health of Anytown’s 6th, 8th, and 10th graders in 2013.  

 

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Community & School Risk

Laws & Norms Favorable to Drug Use: Students’ perceptions of the rules and regulations concerning alcohol, tobacco and other drug use that exist in their neighborhoods are also associated with problem behaviors in adolescence.

Lack of School Commitment: Lack of commitment to school means the child has ceased to see the role of student as a positive one. Young people who have lost this commitment to school are at higher risk for a variety of problem behaviors.

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Family Risk

Family Conflict: Bonding between family members, especially between children and their parents or guardians, is a key component in the development of positive social norms. High levels of family conflict interfere with the development of these bonds, and increase the likelihood that young people will engage in illegal drug use and other forms of delinquent behavior.

Poor Family Management: Children who experience poor family supervision and poor family discipline are at higher risk of developing problems with drug use, delinquency, violence and school dropout.

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Individual & Peer Risk

Early Initiation of Drug Use: If children are attached to their parents and want to please them, they will be less likely to threaten that connection by doing things that their parentsstrongly disapprove of.

Peer Rewards for Antisocial Behavior: Students’ perceptions of their peer groups’ social norms are an important predictor of involvement in problem behavior. When young people believe that their peer groups are involved in antisocial behaviors, they are more likely to become involved themselves.

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Anytown Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PAYS) School and Community Health Check-up

Risk Factors 

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Pennsylvania Average 

 

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