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Youth & Family Needs Survey - Carter & Love Counties, Oklahoma

We are interested in understanding how the local community feels about youth and family services in Carter and/or Love counties of southern Oklahoma. Youth and focused organizations need YOUR INPUT to know what we are doing well and what needs improvement. The data from this assessment will directly affect how we spend our funding and which programs we seek to fund!!

All answers are ANONYMOUS. We need your honest feedback, especially if you think it might be hard to hear. 

Note: Results will be provided to Community Youth Services of Southern Oklahoma; HFV Wilson Community Center; The Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma; and United Way of South Central Oklahoma. 
Note: personal demographics will not be associated with any specific answers. We collect this information to ensure all people are properly represented in the results. 
1.Personal Demographics: What is your age?
2.Personal Demographics: With which race do you identify?
3.Personal Demographics: What is your educational level?
4.Personal Demographics: What is your household income?
5.Which best describes your position in the community?
6.Do you live in Carter or Love county?
7.In which city do you live or which city is nearest your home residence?
8.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Academic struggles
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
9.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Access to internet
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
10.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Access to quality healthcare, including mental health care
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
11.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Access to quality research-driven sexual education
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
12.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Access to Spanish-speaking providers
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
13.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Accessibility throughout community
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
14.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Affordable housing
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
15.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Alcohol, drug use and/or abuse
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
16.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Bullying
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
17.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Child abuse
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
18.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Child neglect
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
19.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Cyber abuse and/or addiction
Not an issue facing our youth
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Moderate
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
20.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Delinquency 
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
21.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Discrimination
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
22.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Disregard for authority
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
23.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Disruptive behavior
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
24.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Exposure to sexual content
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
25.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Family conflict, domestic violence and/or dysfunction
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
26.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Family support
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
27.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Financial Literacy in youth/young adults/young families
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
28.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Food insecurity and/or hunger
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
29.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: High risk sexual activity 
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
30.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Homelessness, houselessness, being unhoused
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
31.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Household violence
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
32.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Human trafficking
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
33.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Issues affecting LGBTQ+ youth
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
34.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Life Skills
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
35.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Mental health, including suicidal ideations
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
36.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Parenting skills
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
37.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Quality& affordable after school care
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
38.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Quality& affordable summer child care and programming
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
39.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Quality& affordable childcare
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
40.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Racism
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
41.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Recreation or pro-social fun activities
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
42.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Runaway youth
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
43.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Safe walking infrastructure throughout town
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
44.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Self-esteem/self-efficacy
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
45.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Sense of community
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
46.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Services for children and/or families with special needs
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
47.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Social isolation
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
48.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Teen pregnancy
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
49.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Tobacco use, including electronic devices
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
50.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Transportation
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
51.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Truancy
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
52.How would you rate the following issue affecting our youth and/or families: Victimization
Not an issue facing our youth
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The most significant issue facing our youth today
53.Which social issue or issues facing our youth did we miss in our survey?
54.Have you ever experienced barriers to receiving/looking for/finding or using services for youth and/or families in Carter & Love counties? If yes, please identify those barriers below. Example: transportation, affordability, business hours, etc.
55.Would you participate in or attend a town hall focused on youth issues?
56.If you have any issues, comments, or concerns that you would like Community Youth Services to know, such as barriers, problems, particular issues, etc., please leave those in the following comment box. 
57.If you have any issues, comments, or concerns that you would like HFV Wilson Community Center to know, such as barriers, problems, particular issues, etc., please leave those in the following comment box.
58.If you have any issues, comments, or concerns that you would like the Family Shelter of Southern Oklahoma to know, such as barriers, problems, particular issues, etc., please leave those in the following comment box.
59.If you have any issues, comments, or concerns that you would like United Way of South-Central Oklahoma to know, such as barriers, problems, particular issues, etc., please leave those in the following comment box.
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