According to the Kentucky Mental Health Services Planning Council, it is estimated that approximately 49,000 children with severe emotional, behavioral, or mental health disabilities live in Kentucky.

Major mental disorders like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and panic disorder are found worldwide, across all racial and ethnic groups. In the United States, the overall annual prevalence of mental disorders is about 21% of adults and children (DHHS, 1999).

In one year 25 million Americans are affected with a brain disorder (mental illness). More than 7.5 million children and adolescents suffer from these illnesses. Biological brain disorders interfere with normal brain chemistry and they are treatable! (NAMI Family-to-Family)
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Since the enactment of IDEA, graduation rates for students with disabilities age 14 and older have climbed steadily since the early 1990’s.

Due to IDEA, by 1995, 73 percent of students with disabilities age 6-21 attended classes in regular classrooms or resource rooms combined in a regular school building.
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• Fifteen percent (15%)of the United States population or one in seven Americans have some type of Learning Disability (National Institute of Health)
• Thirty-five percent (35%) of students with learning disabilities drop out of high school. This is twice the rate of their non-disabled peers.
• Fifty percent (50%) of the criminal offenders tested were found to have previously undetected learning differences. (Coordinated Campaign - Learning Disabilities (CCLD) Statistics, March 2000.)

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• Did you know that your child has the right to receive a free and appropriate education in a regular classroom with supports?
• About Home and Community Based Waiver or Supports for Community Living?

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