Compared to Distribution

an indicator guage with the arrow in the green the value is in the best half of communities.

an indicator guage with the arrow in the yellow the value is in the 2nd worst quarter of communities.

an indicator guage with the arrow in the red the value is in the worst quarter of communities.

Compared to Target

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Compared to a Single Value

green diamond with downward arrow inside it lower than the comparison value; red diamond with downward arrow inside it higher than the comparison value; blue diamond with downward arrow inside it not statistically different from comparison value.

Trend

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Compared to Prior Value

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green chart bars Significantly better than the overall value

red chart bars Significantly worse than the overall value

light blue chart bars No significant difference with the overall value

gray chart bars No data on significance available

Child Experienced Verbal Bullying in Past Year (CHS)

Measurement Period: 2018

Filter: none (all Counties)

This indicator shows the percentage of children who have experienced verbal bullying in the past year.

Why is this important?

Bullying is unwanted aggressive behavior by another youth or group of youth, who are not siblings or dating partners, which involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. It can harm someone physically, emotionally, and academically. The damaging effects of bullying do not stop at the individual, and in fact, negatively impacts peers, families, schools, and even neighborhoods. Bullying can occur anywhere. It happens in-person and electronically (known as cyberbullying) as well as in and outside of schools

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