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Does Grandview have ‘Healthy Youth”?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Do our students feel safe in our schools? Do they feel safe walking to and from school? Are our students healthy? Are they overweight, under-weight? Are they using drugs? These are all questions that were presented to the Grandview students.

A presentation on the school safety survey results will be presented. The Healthy Youth Survey is taken by students to find out their perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding a wide range of health-related issues and is a collaborative effort between OSPI, the Department of Health, the Office of Community Development, and the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

Grandview United is currently surveying the community about some of these same issues. Surveys are available online at www.grandviewunited.org. The community is invited to participate in this survey. The data will be used to develop a data bank of people interested in providing mentoring or other skills with the youth of Grandview. The surveys focus on safety and activities that youth of Grandview would like to see in our community.

Grandview United will be hosting a community meeting on May 5th at 5:00 p.m. at Compass High School/Administration Building. The results of the Healthy Youth Survey as well as look at the current responses from the survey underway by Grandview United will be presented. Parents, students, and community members are invited to attend.

Yakima, WA – 02/26/09

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Events
Gang Prevention Next Steps/Action
When
Thursday, February 26, 2009
8:00am - All Ages
Where
Central Lutheran Church (map)
1604 W. Yakima Avenue
Yakima, WA 98902
Other Info
The nature of this day will be to allow time for you to work with community members and school personnel from your local geographic area. Toward that end, it would be helpful if you could bring knowledge of resources currently available within your community working with youth including but not limited to church outreach efforts, mentoring programs, Boy and Girl Scouts, Camp Fire, 4-H clubs, etc. It would also be helpful to know what the local schools in your area are teaching with regard to violence prevention (e.g. Second Step programs) and responsible decision-making and at which grade levels these programs are offered. If your school has a GREAT program that would be another resource.

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