The Florida Legislature’s 1999 Drug Control Summit recommended the establishment of an annual, multi-agencydirected, statewide school-based survey effort, combining several survey instruments, with specific variations in odd and even years. The Florida Youth Substance Abuse Survey (FYSAS), one of these instruments and the focus of this report, is administered to a county-level sample of students in even years, and a smaller statewide sample in odd years.
The FYSAS is based on the Communities That Care Youth Survey, developed from the nationally recognized work of Dr. J. David Hawkins and Dr. Richard F. Catalano. It not only measures the prevalence of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and delinquent behavior, but also measures the risk and protective factors related to these behaviors.
The 2008 FYSAS was administered to 632 Wakulla County students in grades 6 through 12 in the spring of 2008. The results supply a valuable source of information to help reduce and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by school-aged youth.
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