Goal Statement:
Youth Risk & Resiliency Survey
Purpose:
The New Mexico State Departments of Education and Health conduct the
Youth Risk & Resiliency Survey (NM-YRRS) every year in
partnership with UNM's Center for Health Promotion & Disease
Prevention. This survey is funded through the New Mexico Department
of Health and in part through a cooperative agreement with the
Centers for Disease Control, Division of Adolescent and School
Health (CDC/DASH); United States Department of Education, Title
IV, Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities; and collaboration
with other units and divisions of the Public Education Department.
The NM-YRRS is comparable to the CDC/DASH Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which is conducted at the state and national levels in order to obtain important evaluation data for the support of school health issues. The survey allows the state to monitor trends in student health and risk behavior and to assess both the risk and resiliency of youth.
Multiple state agencies, local community groups and schools use the data to plan and allocate resources for the benefit of students around New Mexico.
Definition:
The NM-YRRS is an annual student surveillance tool
developed in New Mexico in order to assess the prevalence of health
risk and protective factors of New Mexico youth. It is offered to all
of New Mexico's 89 school districts and is currently administered in
public high schools and middle schools.
Updated 01/11/07
QUESTIONS?
For questions about this survey, please call
Lonnie Barraza at the School and Family Support Bureau, New Mexico
Public Education Department, at (505) 222-4742,
or
Dr. Linda J. Peñaloza, University of New Mexico, Center for
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, at (505) 272-4462, (email: LPenaloza@salud.unm.edu)
2003 Report
2005 Report
Epi Report
2007 YRRS Questionnaire
