Caring Communities Youth Survey (CCYS)
The Caring Communities Youth Survey (CCYS) is designed to assess students’ involvement in a specific set of problem behaviors, as well as their exposure to a set of scientifically validated risk and protective factors. The risk and protective factors have been shown to influence the likelihood of academic success, school dropout, substance abuse, violence and delinquency among youth. For example, children who live in disorganized, crime-ridden neighborhoods are more likely to become involved in crime and drug use than children who live in safe neighborhoods.
The survey is administered every two years to Louisiana students in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12.
More than 113,000 Louisiana students participated in the 2010 CCYS survey, and the results of the 2010 survey are now available. You can view the state report or reports for each of the parish school systems in Louisiana. (Want a brief summary of the 2010 full report? View the 2010 State Summary.)
2010 CCYS Report for the State of Louisiana (.pdf)
2008 CCYS Report for the State of Louisiana (.pdf)
2006 CCYS Report for the State of Louisiana (.pdf)
Parish CCYS Reports
Reports are also available by Department of Health and Hospitals Regional Service Districts and by Louisiana Department of Education Regions. Note that DHH and LDE regions are not the same; there are different parishes that make up each. Here is a link to the DHH regions and a link to the LDE regions.
DHH Region Reports
Education Region Reports
For individual school reports, send an email request to webmaster@picardcenter.org.