What you need to know about the Bach Harrison Prevention Needs Assessment:

Essex County and its Youth Commission work with The Prevention Team to make available the Bach Harrison Prevention Needs Assessment (survey). As a NYS OASAS agency, The Prevention Team must administer some form of a Prevention Needs Survey to determine cultural and community need for evidence based prevention and resource efforts. The Bach Harrison is one of the very best in survey evaluation and methodology.

Findings of each district’s Bach Harrison stays within the ownership of administration. For feedback to the Essex County Community Services Board or Youth Commission, only the general trends based off from the total Essex County numbers is ever discussed. No school data is ever distributed to staff at our agency, county agency, or school district.

We are available to discuss/interpret findings with staff or school boards as necessary.

The entirety of the survey can now be completed online. It takes between 1-2 class periods to complete. We have found better compliance with completion and validity with schools proctored by Prevention Team staff- especially if we’ve been working in the school.