10/10/2025
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Beautiful Dreamers Behavioral and Educational Center
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Beautiful Dreamers is a non-profit organization focused on the psychological needs of individuals.
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Norre Gade 43-46 Unit 230
Saint Thomas
00801
Opening Hours
| Monday | 09:00 - 18:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 - 18:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 - 18:00 |
| Saturday | 22:00 - 13:00 |
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Mental illnesses are common in the United States. Nearly one in five U.S. adults lives with a mental illness (44.7 million in 2016). Any mental illness (AMI) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. AMI can vary in impact, ranging from no impairment to mild, moderate, and even severe impairment. Serious mental illness (SMI) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder resulting in serious functional impairment, which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities. The burden of mental illnesses is particularly concentrated among those who experience disability due to SMI.
There were nearly 40 million Americans with a disability in 2015, representing 12.6% of the civilian non-institutionalized population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yet the share of Americans with disabilities varies widely across demographic groups and geography. The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey defines disability status through six types of questions measuring serious difficulty with hearing, vision, cognition, walking or climbing stairs, as well as difficulty with self-care and independent living.
Having a disability places a set of extra demands or challenges on the family system; most of these demands last for a long time (Murphy 1982). Many of these challenges cut across disability type, age of the person with the disability, and type of family in which the person lives. There is the financial burden associated with getting health, education, and social services; buying or renting equipment and devices; making accommodations to the home; transportation; and medications and special food. In an effort to ameliorate these challenges, beautiful dreamers provides supportive services to at-risk and homeless individuals/families to allow these families a fighting chance at closing the gaps between themselves and their non-at-risk, non-disabled and non-homeless counterparts. Such services are provided in school, homes and private practice to meet the unique needs of individuals and families. At Beautiful Dreamers, we are confident that families, as well as students in Special Education with an active Individualized Educational Plan (IEP), diagnosed with a Mental Illness as well as those considered at-risk, if given the opportunity, can cope and learn as effectively as any other student. Access to the appropriate resources by these students at the elementary and secondary level will facilitate their exemplary individualized learning and academic success. In turn, their development as productive and contributing citizens will prove invaluable as mentors and role models locally, nationally, and globally.
