CSC's Palm Beach County 2023 Zip Code Report
As part of its Community Assessments, Children’s Service Council (CSC) annually updates a zip code report that examines 11 indicators in Palm Beach County. The indicators are primarily based on CSC’s focus areas – increasing healthy births, reducing child abuse and neglect, and increasing the number of children ready for school. CSC continues to offer this report to strengthen community planning and action. Contact: Elizabeth Clark elizabeth.clark@cscpbc.org for inquiries and/or to provide information on the report’s application in the community.
The rise in drownings of children with autism in Florida
At least 63 children with autism have drowned in Florida since 2021 with 10 of those drownings happening in Palm Beach County, according to a report by Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County. The study- believed to be the largest of its kind in the United States related to autism and drownings- identified 109 drownings in Florida involving children with autism since 2012. Download the report below. If you would like Appendix A and B, please e-mail Jon Burstein at jon.burstein@cscpbc.org or call him at 561-374-7616.