Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Advisory Council
Doug Hall
Senior Vice President
Pride Surveys
What is Pride Surveys?
•	Founded 1982 in Atlanta
•	More than 32,000 building-level surveys
•	More than 10 million students
•	Parent and faculty surveys

Family of Surveys
•	Pride Survey for Grades 6-12
•	Pride Survey for Grades 4-6
•	Pride Survey for Faculty/Staff
•	Pride Survey for Parents
•	Risk and Protective Factor Survey
•	Communities That Care Youth Survey
Data collected
•	Alcohol, tobacco, other drug prevalence
•	School safety
•	Carrying guns (at school/outside school)
•	Gang membership
•	School climate/Academic Achievement
•	Suicide
•	Obesity

How do you know they are telling the truth?
•	Test-retest
–	97% exact agreement for cocaine use
•	 Built-in “lie detector”
–	Fake drug
–	Internal inconsistency
•	Iteration studies
–	10th grade annual drug use (2005)
•	Pride	 29.7%
•	MTF	 29.8%

Pride Survey and MTF
Where Drug Use Occurs
•	Pride Surveys data supports a community-wide response to adolescent problems
Where the guns are
What parents think and students do
•	A powerful tool to deal with parental denial
What Faculty/Staff Say
•	12,700 faculty and staff members
•	Responses from Pride Survey for Faculty/Staff
•	Not random sample
•	2005-06 school year
What Faculty/Staff Say
•	ATOD training needed
–	Student Refusal Skills				70%
–	Locating and using community resources 	69%
–	Recognizing signs and symptoms of use	64%
What Faculty/Staff Say
•	School/student safety training needed
–	Violence prevention					76%
–	Conflict Resolution				 	75%
–	Recognizing signs and symptoms of violence	75%