The SHARP project and its associated surveys (Youth Tobacco Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and Nebraska Risk and Protective Survey) are utilized by a number of organizations and institutions across the state of Nebraska. The surveys are directly supported by the CDC, Nebraska Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services. It also helps support projects and causes within local health departments. Check with your local organization on how they can utilize student response data to improve youth health care in your area.
Data from these surveys is endorsed by the following organizations:
- The American Cancer Society, High Plains Division Inc.
- The American Lung Association
- Health Education Inc.
- Nebraska Office of Highway Safety
- Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition
Nebraska Office of Highway Safety
Fred Zwonechek
Administrator
"The data collected provide our program with another important source of information that we use to more effectively plan, implement, and evaluate our unintentional injury prevention traffic safety initiatives."
The AIM Institute
Dr. Michael W. Shain
Director of Evaluation Services
"I am currently working at the AIM Institute as a program evaluatior for various grant-funded projects. The funding sources (ie. the US Department of Education, Sherwood Foundation, etc.) like to see data that can be validated by such data sources. I also find a gap in data in school districts that do not allow such means."
Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition
Dr. David Miers
Co-Chair
"The data obtained are very important to the Coalition as we apply for grants and also help us monitor progress and trends."
District Health Department for Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Saline, and Thayer Counties
Jane Ford Whitthoff
Director
"As Health Director for a 5 county rural area, I see great benefit when schools and parents agree to allow their children to participate in the surveys regarding health behavior. We need information about the health related behaviors of children to set a baseline and then to measure whether initiatives that we help communities implement are actually making a difference in the behavior of children."
Norris School District
Dr. John Skretta
Assistant Superintendent
"We have benefited from participating in the student health surveys by sharing the information with stakeholders about the behavioral choices of our students, and for curriculum planning and evaluation. It has also allowed us to interface with external agencies with valid data regarding the needs of our students."
Area Substance and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Hastings
Wendy Keele
Executive Director
"The local data provided by the NRPFSS are extremely valuable when talking to your community about alcohol, drugs, and other risk behaviors. In addition, the data are crucial for our local coalitions when applying for federal and state funding for prevention programs."
Lincoln Public Schools
Dr. Marybell Avery
Curriculum Specialist for Health, Physical Education, and Character Education
"YRBS data are critical when applying for grants, such as the Carol M. White Physical Education Program grant that the Lincoln Public Schools recently received from the U.S. Department of Education. The data also help us focus on the needs of our students when we conduct regular reviews of our health education and physical education curricula."
SPF/SIG Southeast Coalition
Carlece Kenner
Project Director
"These surveys are needed on the local, state and national level. We just finished writing the DFC grant and without these tools we would have not been able to even think about taking on writing this grant."