Statistic: Creating Career Opportunities 2
More than half a million Greater Clevelanders lack the skills to obtain jobs that provide a
decent standard of living.
Source: The Literacy Cooperative
Statistic: Stopping Violence 6
Approximately 50 to 80% of all child abuse and neglect cases substantiated by child protective services involve some degree of substance abuse by the child’s parents.
Statistic: Stopping Violence 5
Health care is 16% higher for women who were sexually abused as children.
Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Statistic: Stopping Violence 4
Rape is the most under-reported crime, with 63% of sexual assaults not reported to police. Only 12% of child sexual abuse is reported to the authorities.
Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Statistic: Stopping Violence 3
1 in 5 women is raped during her lifetime.
Source: National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Statistic: Stopping Violence 2
In 2016, 239 fatalities resulted from gun violence in Cuyahoga County. 150 of those fatalities were homicide.
Source: Cuyahoga Medical Examiner Statistical Report 2016
Statistic: Stopping Violence 1
In Ohio, someone is killed with a gun every 8 hours.
Source: Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence
Statistic: Treating Substance and Mental Health 2
In 2018 (through July) there were 1,728 fatal and non-fatal overdoses in Cuyahoga County.
Source: CCS
Statistic: Treating Substance and Mental Health 1
There were 4,690 fatal and non-fatal overdoses in Cuyahoga County in 2017.
Source: Health Data Dashboard, Summit County Public Health
Statistic: Managing Chronic Health 3
In 2015, 187,500 persons (15.1% of the population) in Cuyahoga County were living with a disability.
Source: CCS
