Past HYS Trainings

2016 Healthy Youth Survey Regional Workshops

In Spring 2015, regional workshops were held at Washington’s nine Educational Service Districts. The workshops were sponsored by OSPI, DOH, DSHS-DBHS, WSLCB and Looking Glass Analytics. Workshops presented information about 2014 survey results, how to access HYS results, products available on www.AsKHYS.net, and how to interpret and communicate HYS results.

• Training Presentation (PDF)
• Training Workbook (DOC)

2012 HYS Training Webinars

In Spring 2013, staff from Washington State agencies sponsoring the Healthy Youth Survey and Looking Glass Analytics conducted 3 training webinars:

• Getting access to your 2012 Healthy Youth Survey Results (PPT)

• HYS 101. What your HYS results say and how to talk about them (PPT)

• HYS 201. Digging Deeper into your HYS results (PPT)

Training Tools

Data Analysis & Technical Assistance Manual

• Analysis Manual for 2014 and 2016 - standard and simple methods for analyzing healthy youth survey data in stata (PDF)

Testing for Significant Differences

Need to determine if two survey results are different from another. Here is a tool for testing statistical significance. You need the percentage and confidence interval for two results.

• Tool for Determining HYS Statistical Significance (XLS)