• Increasing parents' awareness and involvement in the    issues and concerns of their adolescent children.

• Providing educators and other professionals with insight into and ways to address local teen problems and concerns.

• Providing convincing data to inform administrators and policy makers of program and curriculum needs.

• Setting a baseline from which to evaluate the effectiveness of prevention programs.

• Providing empirical evidence which has become
increasingly necessary for obtaining private and public funding.

• Communities who have participated in TOP-AZ have helped strengthen their community by using results from the youth survey for the following purposes:

    Program evaluation
    Address specific concerns identified in the report
    Needs assessment for grants
    Allocate resources for existing programs
    Highlight strengths and assets of existing programs
      for young people             

Confidentiality

It is important to note that while TOP-AZ data is the property of the participating school district the University uses the anonymous data for related research. Each school decides how and with whom they share their results. The University does not identify schools or communities in research publications.