2316 Medico-legal Update, January-March 2020, Vol. 20, No. 1 Model of Social Support for Adolescent Mental Health with Disabilities Tri Riana Lestari 1 , Atikah Adyas 1 , Agusni Karma 1 , Elsye Rachmawaty 2 , Yopi Harwinanda Ardesa 3 , Ester Syeffty Pasaribu 4 , Mayke Ruth Loyali 5 1 Associate Professor, Department of Orthotics-Prosthetics, Poltekkes Kemenkes Jakarta I, 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Jakarta I, 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Orthotics-Prosthetics, Poltekkes Kemenkes Surakarta, 4 Laboratory Assistant, Department of Orthotics-Prosthetics, Poltekkes Kemenkes Jakarta I, 5 Student, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Indonesia Abstract For adolescents, disability is more than a physical limitation. Discrimination, social stigma, and pressure from the environment can induce a social limitation that excludes them from social. The lack of support causes them to suffer from physical limitations that will affect their mental health, and worse will create not only physically disable but also impact their life. This study aims to fnd an appropriate social support model for maintaining the mental health of adolescents with disabilities from examining the factors of adolescents’ characteristics, family, peers, health workers, and community leaders. This research method used cross sectional study, a total of 100 adolescents with disabilities from Cerebral Palsy Center Jakarta and Surakarta special schools were involved in this observation. This research consisted of collecting data, conducting FGD with teachers, health workers, family, and processing data with Smart-PLS. The results was that the adolescent mental health with disabilities were formed by individual characteristics (such as age, gender, education), the role of family, friends and teachers. Support from family, friends, teachers, community leaders in their roles are needed in stabilizing emotions and maintaining mental health of adolescents with disabilities. Keywords: adolescents; disabilities; support; social support model; mental health Corresponding author: Tri Riana Lestari (tririanalestari@yahoo.co.id) Address: Jl.Wijayakusuma Raya 47-48 Cilandak-Jakarta Introduction Children with special needs have physical disabilities, or intellectual disabilities: Autism, Down-Syndrome, low intelligence quotient defciencies associated. This may be due to genetic errors, problems during pregnancy and birth or social conditions of living. 1 Young persons with disabilities are like young people everywhere: they have dreams and ambitions, interests and desires, also hopes for their futures. 2 Disabilities categorized into four health conditions, developmental disabilities (DD), mental health conditions (MH), physical disorders (PD) and the fourth condition is a combination of the three. 3 Worldwide, as many as more than 1 billion humans live in various form of disability. 4 The number of people with disabilities live in our environment sometimes makes us feel that we ‘know’ them. However, understanding the meaning and impact of the disabilities they have in relation to their ability to be actively involved in social, political, cultural and economic matters is a challenge that can distort. Not only have physical challenges, millions of people with disabilities across the world still have to struggle with social and legal challenges that limit them in accessing education, physical and sexual health care, employment, recreational activities, and harmony in family life. 5 Such obstacles are a serious challenge for persons with disabilities who are still adolescents. 2 In fact, adolescents with DD and MH cannot access health care facilities freely. A large proportion of children with DD have unmet preventive health and therapy services. 6 DOI Number: 10.37506/v20/i1/2020/mlu/194653