The YRBS monitors six categories of priority health-risk behaviors among high school students-behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence; tobacco use; alcohol and other drug use; sexual behaviors that contribute to unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV infection; unhealthy dietary behaviors; and physical inactivity-plus the prevalence of asthma and obesity.
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.
Planning Meeting: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 9:00-11:00am at The Learning Coalition, 841 Bishop Street. #301. (*Meeting not on usual 2nd Tuesday of the month)
We will continue our discussion of HE'E priority items at the July 22 meeting. At the June 10, 2014 HE'E Planning Meeting, Planning Group participants continued to discuss the prospective priority items for the Coalition. Representatives Parents for Public Schools, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice and Kaho'omiki all presented detailed information about the initiatives, respectively, and will be preparing a written brief so Coalition members may review. Here are the priority items with brief descriptions of the initiatives via links to websites.
1. Safe Routes to School (Parents for Public School Hawaii)
2. Breakfast After the Bell (Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice)
3. Statewide Afterschool Network (Kaho'omiki)
We will present more information in upcoming newsletters and ask members to give feedback on which priority they would like to support. If there are suggestions for other priority items, or there is feedback on current priority items under consideration, please send to cheri@heecoalition.org.
