{"id":618,"date":"2014-05-24T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=618"},"modified":"2024-05-07T14:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:10:02","slug":"survey-in-portsmouth-nh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2014\/05\/24\/survey-in-portsmouth-nh\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey in Portsmouth, NH"},"content":{"rendered":"

Parents need to look closely at what information the school will be gathering on your children. \u00a0A good question to always ask is, where is the DATA that proves the programs being used in the school has had significant success in reducing alcohol\/drugs use on the student population?<\/p>\n

Surveys should be Opt-IN vs Opt-out. How much time does this take away from instruction time in the core subjects?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Parent:<\/p>\n

The Portsmouth School District is implementing two new programs at the middle and high school called Project Alert and Project Success.\u00a0 These new initiatives are funded by a Federal Grant distributed by the NH Department of Health and Human Services.\u00a0 The goals of the programs are to prevent and reduce alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and to improve school performance. To accomplish these goals, students will have the opportunity to participate in additional school wide awareness programs, expanded class curricula, extracurricular activities, small groups and individual meetings to correct erroneous perceptions about substance use and learn skills to identify and resist social and situational pressures to use substances.\u00a0 Parent meetings, workshops and collaborative family \u201chomework\u201d assignments will also be available to assist you in prevention efforts.<\/p>\n

In order to assess the effectiveness of these initiatives, and to comply with the Grant requirements, we will be asking students to participate in a survey that will measure changes in attitudes and behaviors that decrease the risk of substance misuse and abuse. Student\u2019s participation in the survey is voluntary.\u00a0 Your child does not have to participate and you do not have to provide a reason.\u00a0 Students can answer as many questions as they wish and do not have to answer any questions they do not want to answer.\u00a0 The survey was given November 12, 2013 and will be given again on Wednesday, May 28, 2014 <\/b>during the course of an extended homeroom period.\u00a0 The survey is confidential.\u00a0 Your child\u2019s and the school\u2019s privacy are protected.\u00a0 No names are on the survey.\u00a0 No one at the school will ever see the survey. The survey will be used by our school district and the NH Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services to evaluate the program\u2019s effectiveness.\u00a0 A copy of the survey is available at your child\u2019s school for your review.<\/p>\n

Contact your Middle School Principal, John M. Stokel, at 436-5781 or
\njstokel@portsmouth.k12.nh.us<\/a> no later than May 27, 2014 if you DO<\/b> want your child to participate in this activity.<\/p>\n

If you have any questions about this new programming or the survey, please contact your child\u2019s principal.\u00a0 We are hopeful that working together we can support healthy decision making and prevent substance abuse.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nLaura Burbine, MEd
\nWellness Coordinator
\nPortsmouth School District<\/p>\n

John M. Stokel, Principal
\nPortsmouth Middle School
\n155 Parrott Ave.
\nPortsmouth, NH\u00a0 03801
\nTel. (603) 436-5781<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parents need to look closely at what information the school will be gathering on your children. \u00a0A good question to always ask is, where is the DATA that proves the programs being used in the school has had significant success in reducing alcohol\/drugs use on the student population? Surveys should be Opt-IN vs Opt-out. How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[119,118,116,117],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","category-misc","tag-alcohol","tag-drug","tag-portsmouth","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}