Mental Health Facts
Missed educational opportunities and failure in school
58 percent of children with a mental illness do not graduate from high school.
Lost productivity and unemployment
Employees who are depressed are twice as likely to miss work and seven times more likely to be less productive on the job. Yet, treatment for clinical depression has a high success rate.
Increased crime and incarceration
More than half of Ohio’s inmates have some type of mental illness; 12 percent are diagnosed with a severe mental
Inappropriate use of hospital emergency departments
Comprehensive community-based mental health services can cut public hospital admissions and lengths of stay.
Premature death, including suicide
In Ohio, more than 1,300 lives are lost to suicide each year.