A Roadmap to Need: Where Does Your County Stand?
A Roadmap to Need, a new report by the NC Center for Afterschool Programs, uses a variety of indicators to rank North Carolina counties in a “wellness index.” Specifically, the report looks at graduation rate, short-term suspension rate, adults with high school diploma, median household income, single parent households, children without health insurance, teen pregnancy rate, juvenile delinquincy rate, child abuse/neglect reported cases and children in DSS custody.
The top five:
- Camden
- Orange
- Wake
- Union
- Irdell-Statesville
The bottom five:
- Greene
- Lenoir
- Halifax
- Robeson
- Edgecombe
