Mental Illness is no LAF-ing matter

Did you know that:

• According to the National Institute of Mental Health, an estimated 10 million adults are living in the United States with Severe Mental Illness. This number excludes those with substance use disorders
  
  
• In 50 years, the number of psychiatric beds was reduced by 2000% from 340 to 17 beds per 100,000  http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/the_shortage_of_publichospital_beds.pdf page 4

• Health Affairs Blog says: “According to the American Psychiatric Association, on any given day, between 2.3 and 3.9 percent of inmates in state prisons are estimated to have schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder”
  
  
• “People with untreated psychiatric illnesses constitute one-third, or approximately 250,000, of the estimated 744,000 homeless population” http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/resources/consequences-of-lack-of-treatment/homelessness/1379-homelessness-one-of-the-consequences-of-failing-to-treat-individuals-with-severe-mental-ilnesses
  
  
• The National Coalition for the Homeless and the  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration report that on any given night in January 2010, 26.2% of all sheltered persons who were homeless had a severe mental illness

As a society, we are abandoning our severely mentally ill to homelessness and incarceration. We "got mad as hell" and founded the Living Assistance Fund (aka LAF). We are paying for residential care when individuals and families cannot afford it. Help us help others by making a donation

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