Interpretation reports included the level of risk and protection for each of the functional domains and could be used by school districts to target prevention resources and programming based on student needs. In addition, school districts utilized the information to enhance the school profile, plan staff development activities, and serve as a baseline for longitudinal analysis with future youth risk data. In contrast, Kansas students indicated a smaller percentage of having ever used marijuana, for all grades surveyed. The data has been utilized by the State agency in two major endeavors. First the risk and protective data has been utilized as the framework for the annual contract that local prevention programmers submit to the State agency.
Contractors use the data as they determine programming needs and fiscal resources.
In addition, the data has been the driving force behind a State-wide management and evaluation system.