2o2o Risk & Protective Factor DAta Assessment

This group, officially known as the "Risk & Protective Factor" work group reviews youth survey and public data to help the community board select priority youth outcomes, and priority risk and protective factors. Also, they will monitor changes in community-level outcomes over time.

• Healthy Kids Colorado Survey 2019: https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/healthy-kids-colorado-survey-data

• Key Findings HKCS 2019: please email for report

• Smart Source Survey Data 2019: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XU3ibR6cyymzemZQQImqbnK5PMk0k5SO/view

• 2019 Jefferson County CTC Youth Town Hall Data 2019 & 2020: please email for report

• Jefferson County Community Health Assessment: https://insight.livestories.com/s/v2/cha-home-page/b08c9eba-221c-41de-b1fb-3540bcc51a76/

• US Census Quick Facts on Jefferson County: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/jeffersoncountycolorado,CO/PST045219

• Community Needs Assessment Jeffco: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uGAZxh1XN_IqZk_AIBY6AQcoYfLzEfVi/view?usp=sharing

Background information

• Mission & vision

  • Data-driven

  • Equity & social justice informed (also specifically included in sections * below)

  • Coalition led/ Community owned & operated

  • Youth as co-leaders

• COVID-19 impacts (also specifically included in sections * below)

• Prevention = changing the underlying risk & protective factors that local data confirm that our youth face

• About our geographic area

• Projects underway

CTC Colorado will supply our coalition with a risk & protective factor comparison table (for the "focus area" of Wheat Ridge HS, Lakewood HS, and Jefferson Jr./Sn. only) that uses HKCS data to see which factors are higher in our community, both compared to other factors and to other communities. This is expected in late August.

Community

Risk factors:

• Community laws and norms favorable toward substance use

• Extreme economic deprivation

• Transitions and mobility

• Availability of substances

• Low neighborhood attachment and community disorganization

Protective Factors:

• Opportunities for prosocial involvement

• Recognition for prosocial involvement

School

Risk factors:

• Lack of commitment to school

• Academic failure beginning in late elementary school

Protective Factors:

• School rewards for prosocial involvement

Family

Risk factors:

• Family history of substance abuse

• Family management problems

• Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in substance use

Protective Factors:

• Family opportunities for prosocial involvement

Individual

Risk factors:

• Early initiation of substance use

• Favorable attitudes toward substance use

• Perceived risk of substance abuse