Background:
B. Weyland Smith Consulting (BWSC), LLC has been offering youth behavioral health survey services for eight years. In this time our survey product and process has evolved, and our team has become increasingly aware of cost barriers to accessing high quality, easy to interpret youth survey services. In the interest of enhancing community data and program capacity we are offering up to four reduced cost survey processes per calendar year.
The lower end of the price range provides substance use core measures needed for competitive grant applications and data-driven prevention planning as well as mental health indicators and related risk and protective factors. The upper end of the price range additionally includes optional sections on bullying, toxic stress, extracurricular activities, and sexual behaviors as well as the choice to include analysis of the data by subgroups, sex, gender, sexual identity and race/ethnicity, with special reporting on mental health and substance use risk factors.
Costs and Services:
A regular priced survey package starts at $5,500. For our reduced-price process, BWSC will offer our “Core Survey” for $2,250, with optional Add-On Sections for $130 each. This survey is available in Spanish. If other languages are needed, the recipient would be responsible for the cost of translation, which ranges from $300-$700+ depending upon the language needed and the length of the survey (i.e. how many add-on sections are included). Recipients would receive the same survey services as offered to clients paying full price which includes support in planning and preparing for survey implementation, a full survey report (PDF), a PowerPoint of key findings and an Info brief. Please note this does not include in person meetings with coordinators, school administrators or Board of Education.
Eligibility:
1: Schools, Town/City Governments and non-profit organizations that have never had youth substance use prevention funds outside of Local Prevention Council DMHAS Block Grant funds including but not limited to Drug Free Communities (DFC), Partnerships for Success (PFS) (State or Local), Prevention in Connecticut Communities (PCC), or Building Resilient Youth & Communities with Prevention (BRYCWP).
2: Schools, Town/City Governments and non-profit organizations that have had youth substance use prevention funds outside of Local Prevention Council DMHAS Block Grant funds, that concluded 3 or more years from the time of application including but not limited to Drug Free Communities (DFC), Partnerships for Success (PFS) (State or Local), Prevention in Connecticut Communities (PCC), or Building Resilient Youth & Communities with Prevention (BRYCWP).
3. The above criteria are met and the applicant School, Town/City Government or non-profit organization has not received a reduced-price survey in the past three years.
All survey processes must include passive parental consent, not active parental consent.
Process:
Applications will be reviewed, based on demand, but minimally twice per calendar year. Applications will be reviewed on completeness and need.
