What is the PPS?The Prevention Planning Survey (PPS) is a questionnaire that provides information about risk and protective factors related to substance use and violence. The survey focuses on the risk and protective factors in the social environments that make up most teens’ daily lives: the factors involving the students’ peer groups, family, and school environments. Importantly, questions also address experiences with violence and victimization. The PPS will help you understand the differences between students who are drug-involved and students who are drug-free, and the characteristics of youth that have the potential to act out violently. This information aids in creating prevention programs, messages and activities that are relevant to specific subgroups of young people.
The PPS is available in an 8-page paper-pencil questionnaire booklet that also includes the Adolescent version of the American Drug and Alcohol Survey (ADAS). The Adolescent ADAS is also available by itself. The Prevention Planning Survey, however, is only available in the booklet that combines the ADAS with the PPS. The questionnaires are given in school classrooms, using procedures to carefully protect the students’ anonymity.
The booklets of the adolescent ADAS with the PPS are completed in a single class room period, with most students finishing the booklet in about 45 to 55 minutes. The surveys are then returned to R.M.B.S.I. where they are scanned in to our computer and analyzed. We prepare reports on the results for the group of students. No individual results are ever provided. Reports are returned to the client within 30 days after we receive the completed surveys.
The report based on the Adolescent ADAS includes 21 tables and is approximately 55 pages long. The PPS report will be presented in a separate section of the same three-ring binder. The PPS report includes 23 tables and 17 bar charts, and is approximately 56 pages long. We provide a presentation script and a set of graphics on overhead transparency film with both the ADAS and the PPS report, so that you can easily give presentations of the survey results. To see examples of the graphics provided with the PPS report, click here.
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