The dataset in this task was obtained from Ray Foundation. This is an Agency whose main goal is to ensure that children and the youth aged from 5-18 years undergo through counseling services especially those that are traumatized, ( Sohlberg, & Mateer, 2017) . Therefore, the data helped to evaluate whether the general mental health services being provided by the Agency are targeting a relatively equal distribution of children and youth, in terms of ages, who seek services. The data on age were obtained from a total of 90 children accessing mental health counseling services.
According to the results, Table 1 shows a frequency distribution of the number and ages of children who accessed services within the past month from the Agency.
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| Table 1: Age category of the children accessing services | |||||||||
| Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent | ||||||
| Valid | 5-9 Years | 40 | 44.4 | 44.4 | 44.4 | ||||
| 10-14 Years | 40 | 44.4 | 44.4 | 88.9 | |||||
| 15-19 Years | 10 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 100.0 | |||||
| Total | 90 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||||
According to the findings in Table 1, the trend is that majority of the children who are accessing services from the agency are aged between 5-9 years and 10-14 years at 40 (44.4%) each respectively. In addition, only 10 (11.1%) of the children accessing services are aged 15-19 years.
Furthermore, the findings in Figure 1 indicates that the mean age of the children accessing services is 1.67 with a standard deviation of 0.67. Additionally, looking at the distribution curve, the data is positively skewed with most of the values being on the right. This implies that majority of the children being reached with services are aged between 5-14 years. Therefore, the agency needs to come up with strategies of reaching out to the youth aged between 15-19 years. This may include creating awareness and education on the services available at Ray Foundation to the children aged 15-18 years, ( Neuber, 2014) .
Figure 1 : Histogram on age of number of children accessing services
References
Neuber, K. A. (2012). Needs assessment: A model for community planning (Vol. 14). Sage.
Sohlberg, M. M., & Mateer, C. A. (2017). Cognitive rehabilitation: An integrative neuropsychological approach . Guilford Publications.
