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13 <br /> Children <br /> and Youth <br /> Fast Facts <br /> • An estimated 30% of pre-school aged African American children live in <br /> poverty, compared to 9% of White children. <br /> • In 1994, there were 828 reported cases of child abuse and neglect and 336 <br /> substantiated cases. <br /> • The Orange County Rape Crisis Center responded to the needs of 54 <br /> children in 1993 and 45 children in 1994. <br /> • In the Orange County school systems, the nurse to student ratio is <br /> approximately 1 to 1900. <br /> • The Healthy People 2000 Objective with respect to childhood asthma is to <br /> reduce hospitalizations for asthma among children age birth to 14 to no <br /> more than 225 per 100,000 people. Orange County's 1992 hospitalization <br /> rate for childhood asthma was 97.5 per 100,000. These figures indicate <br /> that Orange County has fully achieved the Healthy People 2000 objective. <br /> Orange County Health Assessment 105 <br />