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Reporting PAYS Data

To help you get started, we’ve created a PAYS How-to Guide and Workbook, along with other supplemental materials to assist you in understanding and using PAYS data. Want to learn more about how to process your PAYS report? Check out the PAYS Guide and Workbook below!

PAYS Guide and How-To-Workbook

The PAYS Guide was designed to help you and your team to get the most out of your PAYS data. In each module, you will find:

  • An extensive library of worksheets
  • Report examples/templates
  • Other supporting resources that will assist with successful PAYS analysis and planning.
  • The Workbook is linked here: PAYS User Guide

For more information about the PAYS Guide, check out our YouTube Playlist with short instructional videos here: YouTube Playlist

PAYS Data Presentation Resources: PowerPoint and Other Presentation Materials

Below are valuable PowerPoint and other presentation materials to help you understand PAYS, the value of PAYS Data, and more. This page will be updated with new information as it becomes available for use and dissemination.

PAYS State Report Snapshot Template

This report is used to:

  • Explore county youth behavior trends
  • Highlight risk and protective factor strengths and challenges for county data
  • Showcase key data points for high-interest topics

Data Highlight Report Template and Example

This report is used to:

  • Explore youth behavior trends
  • Discussing the importance of this data for understanding youth outcomes.
  • Pinpointing specific risk and protective factor strengths and challenges!

Focusing on Youth Development Report Template and Example

This report is used to:

  • Showcase a cohort trend analysis of your youth
  • Focus on statistically significant protective factors
  • Highlight trends and discover possible or probable explanations for them, as well as ways to influence them.
  • This is an excellent tool for a bird’s-eye view of how your youth navigate through adolescence.

Utilizing PAYS Prevention Priorities to Examine Community Health Report Template and Example

This report is used to:

  • Showcase risk and protective factors and their related youth behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes
  • Create visually interesting sliding scale graphics and tables, and show the “healthiness” of your youth as reported by the PAYS.

For more guidance, here is a curated video library of general presentation creation resources

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