You've heard that it takes a village to raise a child.
Working together, we can also raise a community of children who go on to become strong, drug-free adults.
The Coalition For A Safe & Drug-Free Fairfield focuses prevention efforts to our youth on underage drinking, marijuana use, and misuse of prescription and over-the-counter medicines. We care about the success and futures of our young people in Fairfield.
We all agree that no mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather, or friend wants to see their child or friend become an addict. Let’s stand up together to make OUR LIFE… safe and drug-free.
See what the Mayor's saying about it. Click here.
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OUR LIFE in Fairfield can be safe and drug-free.
Student Drug Use Survey
The Student Drug Use Survey is a project of the Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati (CDFGC) that provides in-depth analysis of the self-reported drug use patterns of area youth. Since 2004, the Coalition For A Safe & Drug-Free Fairfield has partnered with CDFGC to implement the unprecedented Student Drug Use Survey in Fairfield to collect youth drug use data from seventh through twelfth graders in the Fairfield City Schools and Sacred Heart. CDFGC leads the nation in collecting and disseminating current, reliable adolescent regional drug use data. This survey is recognized across the region and nationally as a current and reliable source of validated information on local youth substance abuse and is the largest of its kind in the country.
Methodology
A total of 54,366 seventh through twelfth grade students in 133 public and private schools in five Ohio counties of Butler, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton and Warren, and three Kentucky counties of Boone, Campbell, and Kenton completed the localized version of the PRIDE survey between October 22, 2007 and December 7, 2005. Since 2004, approximately 11,000 Fairfield students have participated in the survey. No sampling was conducted. Every student in school on the day the survey was administered completed the survey. No surveys were conducted outside of the school building.
How to Use the Data
- Data gathered from this survey drives the Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Fairfield strategy by identifying risk and protective factors that influence youth choices to use and planning to decrease those risks and increase protectors.
- The Coalition for a Safe and Drug-Free Fairfield and its partner organizations utilize data from this survey to evaluate the effectiveness of their programs. Community groups including schools, businesses, social service agencies, funders, parents, faith organizations, law enforcement agencies, and others are utilizing the data to evaluate programs, plan future initiatives, and make funding decisions.
- Data collected through this survey has been used to leverage more than $14 million in local, state and national funding to expand targeted drug prevention and treatment programs in our region.
- Data has been presented to state and national congressional sub-committees to drive legislation and expand federal and state funding.
To view the complete Student Drug Use survey results, click here.
Special Thanks to:
Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati
Fairfield City School District
Sacred Heart
