you are not alone! Mental health awareness....

• Up to 1 in 5 children (20%) living in the United States experiences a mental disorder in any given year (Perou et al, 2013).
  
• Only 20% of those children receive mental health services, and most of those services are through the school (Rones & Hoagwood, 2000).
• Half of all lifetime cases of mental illness have their onset by age 14 (Kessler et al, 2005).
• 50% of high school students ages 14 and over who are living with mental illness drop out of high school (US Dept of Education)
  

*Take emotional and behavioral symptoms seriously! (i.e. excessively inattentive, exceptionally irritable, overly anxious, extremely sad, etc.) They are as important in predicting your child's success in school as your child's vision and hearing screenings!