Coalition meeting (60 min)
County coalition boards, CTC teams, multi-sector partnerships
Use after the data-walk to align partners on top three priorities.
Discussion Guides
Four facilitation guides for the audiences who matter most
Each guide is timed, scripted at a high level, and pairs directly with the coalition toolkit templates.
How to pick a guide
Start with the audience you have a meeting with in the next 30 days. Each guide assumes basic familiarity with PAYS but no prior data-facilitation experience.
The four guides
School board / leadership (30 min)
Superintendents, principals, school board directors
Focus on school climate and mental-health items most relevant to local policy.
Parent or caregiver night (45 min)
PTA/PTO, parent advisory councils, faith-based parent groups
Translate findings into the conversations parents can have at home.
Youth voice circle (45 min)
Student councils, peer leaders, youth advisory boards
Put PAYS findings in front of the students they describe.
Run-of-show
Facilitator principles
Lead with the headline, not the table
Open with one sentence about what changed. Save the data table for the discussion, not the warm-up.
Translate <GlossaryLink term='Prevalence'>prevalence</GlossaryLink> into people
'14% of 10th graders' lands harder as 'about 4 students in every classroom of 30.'
Capture decisions, not just discussion
Every guide ends with a named owner and a 30-day next step. If you skip that, the meeting doesn't move work.
Pair these guides with the Responsible Use checklist
Before you finalize any handout or slide an AI helped draft, run it through the Responsible Use of AI review checklist.