The Council for Youth Development is looking to hear how teens feel about their community and is holding weekly raffles to reward respondents.
The organization has created an online survey for youth ages 13-19, which can be accessed at cydbartholomew.org/groupchats. The site includes links to both English and Spanish versions of the survey.
Teens who fill out the survey and provide their contact information will entered to win weekly prize drawings throughout the summer. According to the organization’s social media, teens only need to fill out the survey once to be entered to win, and prizes have included $100 gift cards to American Eagle Outfitters and Amazon.
“After reviewing the results of the Resilience through Strengths Survey that was conducted last year, we realized we had more questions about what the youth in our community needed,” CYD officials stated in a recent newsletter. “The Youth Empowerment Workgroup decided to create a new survey to collect more data. We hope to share this data with community partners to make our neighborhoods more teen-centric with their ideas.”
Initial questions on the survey include how old the student is, what school they attend, which races they identify with, and what gender they identify with. The last two have the option “Prefer not to share.”
The survey then poses about 30 open-response questions split into the following categories:
- What are your opinions about adults?
- What kind of stuff do you like to do with your friends?
- How do you know that adults care about you?
- How do you know that your voice is heard?
- How do you make decisions to stay safe and healthy?
- How do you communicate and find out about stuff to do?
Students who wish to be entered into the weekly drawing should provide their email address or phone number in their survey responses. According to CYD, all information provided in the survey “will remain anonymous and confidential.”
“We hope to gather more information so our community can learn, grow, and be a better place for you and your friends,” the organization stated in its survey introduction.
