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Teen Insights

Wondering What Parenting Factors Can Predict Teen Alcohol Use? Check This Out!

ByMargaret BroderickDecember 7, 2021

The only parenting factor that predicted an increase in youth alcohol use and alcohol related problems two years later was perceived availability of alcohol at home

Teen Insights

Wondering if our Data on Teen Substance Use in Cortland County is Accurate? We’ve got the answers!

ByMargaret BroderickOctober 26, 2021

It does provide an excellent (valid and reliable) point in time snapshot of over 2,000 Cortland County students

Teen Insights

Here’s What Cortland County Teens Say are the Impacts of COVID-19

ByMargaret BroderickApril 29, 2021

While it will take several years for us to understand how COVID-19 has impacted the mental health and substance use behaviors of youth in Cortland County and beyond, we can provide parents and community members with a quick snapshot of how it is impacting teens here in

Teen Insights

Wondering How We Surveyed Cortland County Teens During Covid-19?

ByMargaret BroderickDecember 3, 2020

Collecting data in a community can be difficult even in the most optimal circumstances. Add in restrictions on gathering sizes, business closures, and hybrid learning in schools and it makes it seemingly impossible! Since early this summer, our Executive Director and I have

Health & Wellness

Bullying—6 Cortland County Statistics Parents Need to Know

ByMargaret BroderickOctober 18, 2020

October is Bullying Prevention Month.

Teen Insights

Triple the Percentage of Cortland County 8th Graders Reported Vaping Compared to 7th Graders in 2019 (and Other Vaping Facts You Need to Know)

ByMargaret BroderickSeptember 9, 2020

Looking back, it sometimes feels as though vaping came out of nowhere.