| Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21
Event Type Totals |
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| Bullying / Cyber Bullying | 175 | |
| Suicide / Suicide Ideation | 153 | |
| Drug Use / Distribution / Possession | 125 | |
| Cutting / Self-Harm | 112 | |
| Smoking (Tobacco, E-Cig, Vape) in School | 87 | |
| Depression / Anxiety | 69 | |
| Inappropriate Language/Behavior/Gesture | 45 | |
| General Harassment | 42 | |
| Threat Against School | 39 | |
| Threat Against Person | 34 | |
| State Wide
Event Types |
2018 – 2019 | 2019-2020 | |
| Bullying / Cyber Bullying | 3,558 | 3,608 | + 50 |
| Suicide / Suicide Ideation | 2,184 | 2,576 | + 392 |
| Cutting / Self-Harm | 2,529 | 2,139 | – 390 |
Safe2Say Something
The Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office released an annual report showing tips to the Safe2Say Something program had dropped since the pandemic sent students home for remote learning.
But an increased portion of the calls, online tips and other reports that did come in were for issues of suicidal thoughts or self-harm, data from the system showed.
Between July 2019 and March 13, when Governor Tom Wolf ordered schools closed for the remainder of the year, about 17 % of tips were related to those two categories. Between March 13 and the end of June, tips related to suicide or self-harm jumped to 37 % of all reports.
Bullying tops local list of calls to Safe2Say state tipline
By Mark Guydish mguydish@timesleader.com
Bullying, both in person and cyber, was by far the most frequent local issue reported to the state Safe2Say Something school tip line last school year, according to an annual report issued Monday by state Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
The data is broken down by Intermediate Unit. The state has 29 of the entities set up to provide a variety of services to schools within their boundaries. L