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MAY 0 3 1994 800K 92 Pac1:964 Kathy Marshall reported on the savings if we invest in preschoolers. Some facts about spending for children who are considered at risk of health or mental problems, abuse, school failure, drug use or getting into trouble with'the law: • Every $1 invested In quality child care and early education programs Is estimated to save $7.16 in reduced expenditures In Nater years for welfare, crime and c6mpensatory education. • Quality preschool programs can reduce crime costs by $148,714 per child over a lifetime. • Children considered at risk are 50 percent less likely to fail a grade in elementary school if they have had early educational intervention. During the 1990-91 school year, almost 15,000 Florida children failed kindergarten or first grade. • For every $1 spent on early intervention programs, the state can save $4.54 that would be spent on programs to deal with learning, emotional or mental disabilities. Of children with disabilities receiving preschool education, about 62 percent required special education, compared to 93 percent of the disabled children who did not get early help. • Florida has the second-highest dropout rate In the nation. • Almost one of every five children In Florida fives in poverty, and 36 percent of violent Juvenile offenders reportedly live in poverty. • Average cost to Incarcerate a juvenile for one year in Florida: $38,601. Average cost of a year of college education at a state university, including food housing and tuition for two semesters: $8,090. SOURCE: Florida State Unkwdw Center for Prevention and Early htwm tion Polky comes to kids, -it's not whether we .pay. It's when. wise - will save millions of dollars in avoided illness, school *tt like baniters know the value of a good down payment to estment in children pays bountiful dividends. Among vestment choices: ad immunizations OR $10 rchensive prenatal care .ion through Medicaid OR $3.38 Aallty preschool education OR $4.78 .neasles shot oft ot"r.0o0 per month for homelessness prevention and support services OR $3.000 per family for family preservation services that help keep families together OR $10,000 3.921% complete prenatal cars OR $70,000 arid obstetric health package $6,000 drug treatment services for an addicted mother for nine months OR $30,000 '$8.700 per youth per year for intensive 1 Community-based services OR -• $40,000 4 In later medical costs In later medical costs for later special education. ohne, welfare and other coats hosplt hmilon for a child with measles to shelter a homeless family in a hotel for one year of intensive child abuse therapy for the first year of a baby born low birth- weight and wtth develop- mental delays for medical care of it drug -exposed baby for 20 days to maintain it youth at a correctional facility