From dgordon@smtpgate.snohomish.wa.gov Wed May 27 08:26:32 1998 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id IAA75310 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:26:32 -0700 From: dgordon@smtpgate.snohomish.wa.gov Received: from nina.snohomish.wa.gov (nina.snohomish.wa.gov [198.238.193.10]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id IAA07477 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:26:31 -0700 Received: from smtpgate.snohomish.wa.gov by nina.snohomish.wa.gov with SMTP (1.39.111.2/16.2) id AA114282894; Wed, 27 May 1998 08:28:14 -0700 Received: from cc:Mail by smtpgate.snohomish.wa.gov id AA896282936; Wed, 27 May 98 08:23:37 PST Date: Wed, 27 May 98 08:23:37 PST Message-Id: <9804278962.AA896282936@smtpgate.snohomish.wa.gov> To: ph-assess@u.washington.edu Subject: Re[2]: YRBS Update -Reply I have a couple of thoughts about better school representation. Maybe you need to hold some regional area meetings so school folks don't have to travel so far- this may be ok for the Olympia, Seattle folks but not for folks from up north or ont he east side. What about school board representation? I think school boards and PTAs will drive the decision to participate more than anyone. We are planning on going directly to our school boards, etc. up here in Snohomish County and we do have school representation on our local advisory committee. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: YRBS Update -Reply Author: ph-assess@u.washington.edu at smtpgate Date: 5/26/98 6:01 PM Our plan is that for the questionnaire development we would include schools who are in the statewide sample in our mailing of the preliminary survey instrument for comment. This should happen in the next 2 weeks (since our questionnaire workgroup did such a bang up job on agreeing to 60 questions). These schools would then be asked to comment on the questions and contribute other questions (since we can do up to 99). On the external advisory group who will give us advise on the overall project we had the first meeting today and only 1 local school was in attendance. We have lots of state organization representing school principals, administrators, nurses, PTA, etc but we do not have very many schools. I am also not sure if reps from single schools are a good approach since there is so much diversity from schools across Wa. We are trying to brainstorm who is the opposition so we can invite them to these groups and give them honest information about the survey. That way if they are upset they are upset about reality and not about myths. If you have any ideas let me know. The only school rep today was from Longview. We need to get the word out but are not sure how to get representation. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katryne Lukens Bull, MPH, CHES Phone: (360) 664-9381 Washington State Department of Health Fax: (360) 586-7424 Office of Planning Pager: (360) 971-0586 1112 SE Quince St. E-mail: kal0303@hub.doh.wa.gov PO Box 47890 Olympia, Wa 98504-7890 .