- As many as 1 in 10 children aged 10 - 17 will experience at least one episode of depression.
- 15% of children with untreated depression are at risk of suicide.
- Anxiety disorder usually starts in childhood or early adolescence.
- More than half a million depressed children attempt suicide each year.
- More than 15,000 Texas children and adolescents have been diagnosed with severe mental illness.
- Drunk driving is the number one killer of fifteen to twenty-four year olds.
- Suicide is the number three killer of fifteen to twenty-four year olds.
- 1in 5 have a Mental Health Disorder
- One in five fifth graders has already been drunk.
- Six to nine percent of school aged children have ADHD.
- Seventy percent of children who need mental health care simply aren't getting it.