[From our founder Vincent Sinclair]
Why do I walk in NAMI Walks?
Because...
The largest housing facilities for sufferers of mental illness aren't mental health facilities, they are jails.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/americas-largest-mental-hospital-is-a-jail/395012/
Because...
Every year there are more officers killed by suicide than feloniously in the line of duty.
http://www.badgeoflife.com/police-suicide-studies/
Because...
For the second year in a row, in the United States, suicide ranked the 10th as the leading cause of death...homicide was 16th.
http://www.suicidology.org/resources/facts-statistics
Because...
To continue to not talk about mental health is literally killing us.