Did You Know?

Of the top fifteen concerns identified in the South Lake Hospital 2016-2019 Community Health Needs Assessment, mental health/depression is listed as #1.

“Lake County had the highest suicide rate among children, as well as the most children aged 5-11 in the region experiencing sexual violence and the highest rate of children who are emotionally handicapped.”

- Community Health Needs Assessment 2016 Report (Collaboration of Lake, Orange, Osceola & Seminole Counties)

“In 2016, an estimated 2.2 million adolescents aged 12 to 17 in the United States had at least one major depressive episode with severe impairment. This number represented 9.0% of the U.S. population aged 12 to 17.”

- National Institute of Mental Health

“Students, on average, are far behind where they would have been without the pandemic and this reduced learning is much greater for groups of students who were already more likely to be struggling in school.”

Susanna Loeb, Professor at stanford university

Only 51% of Lake County students are proficient in Reading, and only 54% are proficient in Math.

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