WJW Mental Health Legal Fund increases the quality of legal and other assistance for the indigent diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness (SMI), to ensure these disabled citizens have resources and representation needed to prevent criminalization, avoid homelessness, to preserve their rights and to live safe, stable, productive lives.
~For all the Jeffs~
WJWMHLF is a proud sponsor of this PBS documentary
By the numbers…
There are over 22 million Americans diagnosed with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)
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adults aged 18+ in the United States (5.5% of all U.S. Adults)
14M
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children
8M
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Higher among females (7.0%) than males (4.0%).
7%
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Young adults aged 18-25 years had the highest prevalence
11.40%
