Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped

Mission

Mission: Actively Promoting identification, acceptance, inclusion and equal opportunities for persons with mental disabilities and their families in Kenya

The society is, in addition promoting the mainstreaming of specialized support services in the country’s development programs for PWID and their families in order to make their inclusion a reality.

Values

Values: Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped (KSMH) is a society for Kenyans living with mental disabilities and their families that uphold the following values;

• Caring
• Kindness and Compassion
• Human rights and social justice
• Equality and Non-discrimination
• Inclusion
• Dedication
• Commitment
• Openness

Goals

Goals: KSMH GOALS provides a framework for mainstreaming the special needs of persons with mental disabilities and their families in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Kenya, by year 2015.
The Goals on behalf of persons with mental disabilities and their families, provides time-bound and measurable development goals for combating poverty, hunger, disease and discrimination.

Mental Disability is not Mental Illness!

Mental Disability is not Mental Illness!

It is generally defined as limitations in intellectual functioning and areas of adaptive skills. It covers all different aspects of mental disabilities such as Down Syndrome, Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Dyslexia, severe cerebral palsy and epilepsy

The Society: Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped is an agent for change, to perform and to carry out, for the care and welfare, interest, treatment, education and advancement of intellectually disabled persons and their families, the following actions in areas of priority affecting their lives:

1. Identification, visibility and recognition of persons with mental disabilities in Kenya
2. Acceptance by the mother, family and the community at large
3. With respect to all special needs, supported access to basic care, treatment, rehabilitation,education and training
4. Inclusion in all aspects of everyday family and community life
5. Supported access to human rights and social justice with respect to individual decisions
6. Family support through adequate services and support networks to families with an intellectually disabled member
7. Inclusive legal and policy frameworks that are operational