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Know the facts

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 Approximately 20 percent of youth ages 13 to 18 experience severe mental disorders in a given year. For  ages 8 to 15, the estimate is 13 percent.

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Seventy percent of youth in juvenile justice systems have at least one mental health condition and at least   20 percent live with a severe mental illness.

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One-half of all chronic mental illness begins by the age of 14; three-quarters by age 24.

Over 50 percent of students with a mental health condition age 14 and older who are served by special education drop out−the highest dropout rate of any disability group. 

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. (more common than homicide) and the third leading cause of death for ages 15 to 24 years.


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Sources

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1. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health. (n.d.). Any Disorder Among Children. Retrieved March 5, 2013, from http://www.nimh.nih.gov/statistics/1ANYDIS_CHILD.shtml 

2. Skowyra, K.R. & Cocozza, J.J. (2007) Blueprint for Change: A Comprehensive Model for the Identification and Treatment of Youth with Mental Health Needs in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System. The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; Policy Research Associates, Inc. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Delmar, N.Y: The National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice; Policy Research Associates, Inc. 

 3.  Kessler, R.C, et al. (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IVdisorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(6), 593-602.

4  U.S. Department of Education. (2006). Twenty-eighth annual report to Congress on the implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 2006, Vol. 2.Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education.  

5. McIntosh, J.L.. & Drapeau, C.W. (for the American Association of Suicidology). (2012). U.S.A. suicide: 2010official final data. Washington, D.C: American Association of Suicidology. 

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