KSMH Vision
To realize a Country where recognition, equality, justice and inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families is respected and actualized.
KSMH Mission Statement
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.
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.
KSMH therefore aims at achieving the following goals by the year 2015:
• By 2015, 20% of people with mental disabilities and their families in urban slums and rural Kenya, will live free of poverty and social, political and economic discrimination.
• By 2015, 20% of children with mental disabilities will receive improved quality, inclusive education with appropriate supports to ensure that each child reaches their highest potential.
• By 2015, the mortality rate of children who are born with a disability or become disabled in the early years will be reduced by two thirds.
• By 2015, the rights of children with mental disabilities, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities, will be respected in Kenya.
• By 2015, the spread of HIV/AIDS in the community of people who have mental disabilities will begin to be reversed and children with mental disabilities who have been orphaned will be supported and cared for in the community.