healthy kids colorado survey
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Low participation on 2021 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey fails to yield data for El Paso County
For the second time, not enough El Paso County secondary students took a voluntary, confidential survey that asks about eating habits, substance use, sexual activity, suicidal inclinations, bullying and other personal health questions, to gather a large enough sample to produce a statistical data set. While that leaves El Paso County Public Health somewhat “blindsided,”…
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Colorado budget proposal cuts youth surveys on drugs, sex
Colorado schoolchildren may not be asked about their drug use and sex habits in anonymous surveys anymore, under a bipartisan budget proposal moving through the Legislature. The budget draft introduced Monday cuts about $745,000 to end the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. The youth-risk surveys are sent every other year to randomly selected middle and high…
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Coffman on more veterans’ woes, time changes of death, the big budget shortfall and more
March 20, 2017 Good morning and Happy Monday. Whether we like it or not, those Mondays keep on a comin’. Thank you sir, may I have another! Read on for this week’s rundown of intel straight from Colorado’s political pipeline … COLORADO KUMBAYA: The Neil Gorsuch Support Ticker (confirmation hearings begin this week): Steve Farber of…
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With much grumbling, Senate votes overwhelmingly for state budget
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate want you to know they don’t love this year’s $27 billion budget, but they voted for it in a landslide. “The bottom line is, I’m going to vote yes on this budget because of the great work of the Joint Budget Committee members (who drafted it). I’m proud of…