A Roadmap to Need: A Look at Cross-Sector Data

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A Roadmap to NeedA Look at Cross-Sector Data
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The 10 Indicators

• Cohort Graduation Rate
• Short-Term Suspension Rate
• Adults with a High School Diploma
• Median Household Income
• Single Parent Households

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The 10 Indicators

• Children Without Health Insurance
• Teen Pregnancy Rate
• Child Abuse / Neglect Reported Cases
• Children in DSS Custody
• Juvenile Delinquency Rate

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Methodology

• Ranked counties on each individual indicator
  1-100
• Summed the rankings for each county
• Ranked counties 1-100 by the sum of their rankings

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Striking Extremes Between Counties

• Income levels vary from
• 64,487 (Wake) to 29,043 (Bladen)
• Graduation rates go from
• 81 (Orange) to 57 (Tyrrell)

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Two North Carolinas?The Top 10

• Camden County
• Orange County
• Wake County
• Union County
• Iredell County

Cabarrus County Watauga County Currituck
County Carteret County Avery County
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One Caveat is Necessary
Countywide averages mask need.
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If we had data by zip code
We would find pockets of need in our highest
ranked counties.
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Two North Carolinas?The Bottom 10

• Warren County
• Rutherford County
• Martin County
• Anson County
• Tyrrell County

Greene County Lenoir County Halifax
County Robeson County Edgecombe County
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Two North Carolinas?
Alleghany
Northampton
Camden
Gates
Ashe
Stokes
Surry
Caswell
Person
Rockingham
Warren
Currituck
Vance
Hertford
Pasquotank
Granville
Halifax
Watauga
Perquimans
Wilkes
Yadkin
Chowan
Forsyth
Avery
Orange
Guilford
Alamance
Franklin
Bertie
Durham
Mitchell
Nash
Caldwell
Alexander
Edgecombe
Davie
Yancey
Madison
Martin
Washington
Tyrrell
Wake
Burke
Iredell
Dare
Davidson
McDowell
Wilson
Randolph
Chatham
Catawba
Rowan
Buncombe
Beaufort
Pitt
Haywood
Johnston
Hyde
Greene
Swain
Lincoln
Lee
Cabarrus
Rutherford
Graham
Harnett
Henderson
Montgomery
Wayne
Gaston
Jackson
Stanly
Polk
Moore
Cleveland
Lenoir
Mecklenburg
Craven
Transylvania
Macon
Pamlico
Cherokee
Clay
Cumberland
Hoke
Jones
Union
Anson
Richmond
Duplin
Sampson
Carteret
Scotland
Onslow
Robeson
Quartile I (counties ranked 1-25) Quartile
II (counties ranked 26-50) Quartile
III (counties ranked 51-75) Quartile
IV (counties ranked 76-100)
Bladen
Pender
Columbus
New Hanover
Brunswick
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• You Proved the Obvious!
• Now What?

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• Can all of us working on behalf of young people
  and their families work more effectively together
  than we do separately?