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What kind of skills would you like to learn, if there were no barriers in your way.

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Mental health services especially for children. There is not enough providers and waitlist for services is unexceptable for our childern.

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The future of our youth .

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Include student’s voices in the cell phone discussion!

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Impulsive response consists of improvement.

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Low neighborhood attachment was a top 3 for 3 age groups in 2019 and remains in the top 3 for 2 in 2025.

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What do you need from adults to feel more connected at home, school & in the community?

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There is a noticeable decrease in the number of students/participants doing the survey.

A consistent lack of social skills/ commitments in the communities/schools/home.

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What does involvement in the community look like to you?

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What level of importance did your parent/ caregiver put on education and attending school in your early years?

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Civics and citizenship education and opportunities

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Housing , food and transportation

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Youth Disconnection & Institutional Gaps

Programs like the Wayne County Action Program, which addresses risk behaviors by fostering mentoring, vocational training, and supportive relationships, highlight a lack of deep community attachment among students  . Meanwhile, mentoring services (e.g., Mentor New York partnerships, tutoring programs) show that when opportunities for connection exist, they’re impactful  . The fact that such programs are recognized as key suggests they’re not widespread enough to make a systemic difference yet.

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What can your community or school do to make you more invested in your future?

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Ask them what they think it means to "be social."

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Cognitive interviewing to assess how they respond to the current Likert-type anchors: YES! yes no NO!

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Gathering data related to youth who experience trauma, neglect, maltreatment, etc. and how that impacts attendance and suspension rates.

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Give more voice to students and younger kids

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Need to pay attention to historical trending and how to get to the route of the struggle.

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What changes would they like to see happen in school, home and community.

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How is participation in other specific activities associated with outcomes, eg. absenteeism and suspensions?

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What types of opportunities do you feel are important for you to be more invested in family? School? And community?

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Self-Advocacy supports in helping to self direct life successfully.

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Implement exercise into kids lives more. Not just the student athletes but the whole student body. Making them aware of ways they can exercise on their own at home, or together with friends and family!

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What activities most excite you that would make you want to participate in school.

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A majority of our gaps can be resolved with significant funding... Agencies cannot help without funding but have the ability.... How do we increase funding in this area??????????

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How have they changed not just year-to-year, but by cohort as they move from 6th to 12th grade?

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Some overall improvement with numbers going down across most categories for younger age groups.

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What is the knowledge of the services they have access to?

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Youth need to be at the table for all discussions. Their input is valuable no matter the topic.

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Addressing the lack of opportunity in the community

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Are the youth involved in the tech discussion. How are they partnering in the process?

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What incentives would interest you to be more involved in your community

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What do you wish adults were asking you?

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What do youth consider to be opportunities in the community?

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Transportation solutions

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Technology related questions.

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Places to socialize outside of school.

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Common denominator across all age groups for a lack of opportunity for community involvement increasing over time.

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How they want to be supported with changes happening around them?

What do they want for community supports and involvement opportunities?

What type of opportunities do you need to be successful in all levels of school?

What's missing from your school? Community? Home?

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Lack of opportunities for involvement in community have increased, but rewards for involvement in community have increased.

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Higher education falicility within the county.

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Mental health support for the adults working with our youth.

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Can we ask the question to the students.. what does community mean to them?

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Questions that measure exposure to trauma and ACEs

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The value of arts and the need to include and promote these activities

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Ask youth what are their priorities areas. What are they seeing that we are not that they strongly believe needs to be addressed?

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A disconnect in accessibility or information to resources

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Gaining insight into the missing data as it may play a crucial part in the data being presented which would reduce the data bias

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What kind of community opportunities would they take part in and wish to see

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Youth should determine what they want addressed and what questions they want asked to work with the partnership to answer.

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Lack of opportunities for involvement seems to be a major issue

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Sensation seeking remains relevant could be due to a lack of community involvement or stimulation.

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Presented data is very school focused it seems that other pertinent data such as health and mental health has been omitted leading to a perceived bias.

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We need to "refurbish" our communities and to work on revitalizing them for our children and their families.

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What are the questions that are currently being asked?

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What do students want to see as their opportunities for involvement in the community?

What types of questions are asked? How many questions based on each risk factor?

Are families asked the same questions? Does the data correlate??

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Lack of involvement in community is big. However, the students taking the survey may not be connecting the things that they are involved with with the wording of the survey questions. “Opportunity” may be causing confusion.

If this really is such an issue, we should do something to directly address it.

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Gaining a better understanding of some of the categories: community disorganization, transition mobility, poor family discipline

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Sensation seeking has raised significantly from the 2019 6th graders.

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Low neighborhood attachment, family antisocial behavior is remaining stagnant at 10th and 12th grade

Amount of risk factors going over 10% grow in each age group

Lack of commitment to school between 2021 and 2023 are huge jumps!

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Percentages are improving; but not nearly where they were prior to COVID

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More education is needed in 6th and 8th grade around ATOD

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Clarifying questions on lack of opportunities. There are many more events and opportunities from an adult perspective than there were even 3 years ago. Are events run through community schools only seen as school events as opposed to community?

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Lack of opportunities for involvement in community is top risk factor in all age groups

Grows in % based on age

Seniors are staying in those communities and already don't feel connected

Sensation seeking top 5 for all ages

Attitudes that favor ATOD are low in all ages

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Health questions/topics are not identified in the shared data.