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Radnor outlines action steps after 2023 Pennsylvania Youth Survey, emphasizes vaping education and wellness supports
Summary
District staff summarized the 2023 PACE results and described action steps including SAP-team reviews, health-class curriculum focus on substance use and addiction awareness, Lieutenant Pinto classroom visits on DUI/legal consequences, ‘wellness Wednesdays’, stall-story flyers about vaping, and parent trainings led by Nadine Carroll.
Radnor Township School District presented the results of the 2023 Pennsylvania Youth Survey (PACE) and the district response at the May 13 curriculum committee meeting, highlighting vaping and nicotine use as the top concerns and describing school-level prevention and support measures.
Cara Miller, who led the update, said the survey data were reviewed by building Student Assistance Program (SAP) teams and used to guide action steps. "This is just a brief overview of the Pennsylvania youth survey, the PACE," Miller told the committee, summarizing work the SAP teams implemented: updated health curricula that cover the physical and mental effects of drugs and alcohol, stall-story flyers and visual awareness campaigns at middle and high schools, wellness Wednesdays during lunch-and-learn sessions, and a parent training delivered by Nadine Carroll.
Miller said law-enforcement engagement was part of the response: Lieutenant Pinto of the Radnor Township Police Department visited high school and middle-school classes to explain DUI processes, field tests, legal ramifications for underage use and available community supports. Miller added that empathy interviews, staff outreach and partnerships with counselors and social workers will continue as part of a holistic approach.
Board members asked whether parents and students were surprised by the findings and whether the PACE measures other behaviors such as relationship violence or gambling. Miller and Carroll said parents were generally not surprised by vaping results and that SAP teams are monitoring related concerns (including gambling) that have arisen in parent trainings. The district indicated it will expand student and paraprofessional interviews next year to better understand survey responses and to tailor interventions.
Administrators said the district hosted a parent training and will continue wellness and prevention programming into the next school year.
