2004-2005 Needs Assessment (.pdf)
Westchester County Department of Planning: Databook 2005 - Link www.westchestergov.com/planning/research
Other Resources for Data and Statistics
Drug & Crime Facts Web Site Updated. "Drugs & Crime Facts" (electronic only).
Web site summarizes U.S. statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from BJS and non-BJS sources. The site provides policymakers, criminal justice practitioners, researchers, and the general public with online access to easy-to-understand information and links to the original sources. (BJS)
Access report at: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/contents.htm
The Annie E. Casey Foundation announces the release of the 2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book and online database.
The 17th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book is now available reports that while national trends in child well-being have been positive over the past decade, there is still wide variation among states along several critical indicators. Despite the positive trends of the last decade, the report makes it clear that this progress is fragile, threatened by what the Casey Foundation terms "the high cost of being poor." Although more than 2.5 million parents have transitioned from welfare to work in the last decade, these and other low-income working families have to pay more for basic goods such as housing, food and transportation, hindering their efforts to build financial security for their children.
High School Dropout
Rates: The Gap Narrows Between Blacks and Whites
A new indicator on the Child Trends Databank reports that non-Hispanic
black high school dropout rates have hit a historic low in 2001 of 11
percent, further narrowing the black-white education gap. Hispanics, on
the other hand, continue to lag far behind blacks and whites, with a
dropout rate of 27 percent. Information on trends in dropout rates is
available on the Child Trends DataBank at http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/attendance.cfm