Special Meeting: Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 4:00-5:30pm at The Learning Coalition, 841 Bishop Street, #301 (See map here. Validated Parking at Ali’i Place at 1099 Alakea Street.) For those needing special accommodations, please contact cheri@heecoalition.org.
HE’E is please to have Tonya Lowery St. John, MPH Epidemiologist, from the Hawaii State Department of Health and Susan Saka from the University of Hawaii Curriculum Research & Development Group give a presentation on the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). To register for meeting please click here. Tonya and Susan will review the 2013 Hawaii results as well as lead a Q&A session. HE’E members in the past have been interested in school safety which includes bullying and cyber-bullying but if there are other areas that you would like to hear about, please contact cheri@heecoalition.org.
The Hawaii YRBS is part of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For a comparison of Hawai’i data to the nation, visit http://nccd.cdc.gov/youthonline/App/Default.aspx.
For more information on the Hawaii YRBS visit http://health.hawaii.gov/school-health/health-survey/ or http://apps.hidoe.k12.hi.us/research/Pages/YRBS.aspx.
Detailed YRBS data reports by topic areas are available the Hawaii Health Data Warehouse www.hhdw.org.
For a pdf of the 2013 Hawai’i YRBS report, click here.