Poverty in America

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF POVERTY AND ITS IMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH IN AMERICA Poverty level has an impact on the mental health status of all Americans. Those living below the poverty line are three times more likely to have serious psychological distress as compared to those living above the poverty level. POVERTY DEFINED 51.4 : percentage of Americans who wll live in poverty at some polnt In their life before age 65. 0000 1 in 8: number of people In the United States living below the poverty line. 0000 1 in 4: number of African Americans living below federal poverty line 0000 Caucaslans American $22,811 Family of four 12% Indlans 27% E $17,568 Famly of three, e (one parent, two children) Alslans 12% $11,500 Poverty line for an Individual The DEMOGRAPHICS of POVERTY Annual Income at the Poverty Line African Amerlcans Hispanlcs 23% 26% $0 $10k $15k $20k CHILDREN THE MENTALLY ILL DID YOU KNOW ...1 in 17 Americans suffer 14.5 23 35 from a serious mental illness? FACTOID #1: In 2005-2010, the prevalence of depression among adults age 45-64 was 5 times as high for those below poverty level Percentage of US. households, Including 16.2 mllion chil dren that Percentage of Amerlcan children, overall, who live Percentage of black children who live In households struggling to put food on the table In poverty. FACTOID #2: Suicide rates in the U.S. tend to struggle to put food on the table. rise during recessions, according to study from the Center for Disease Control THE BOTTOM FIVE SUICIDES PER 100,000 PEOPLE POVERTY AND D.E .51 Percentage of children in the 5 poorest states who live in 0.5 0.4 poverty: 0.3 0.2 Mississippi: 32% .12 0.1 New Mexico: 31% THE HOMELESS D.C Louisiana: 29% 1997 - 2008- 2007 TODAY South Carolina: 28% Approximately 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year. After the Great Recesslon of 2008, the U.S. sulcide rate Increased signlfigantly Arkansas: 28% 633,782 250,000 On any given day, the number of people experiencing homelessness in America 250,000 Mentally Ill are homeless, and the number is increasing. (SHAMEFUL) FACT: The natlonal rate of homelessness Is 20 homeless people per 10,000 people In the general populatlon. The rate for Veterans Is 29 homeless Veterans per 10,000 Veterans In the general populatlon. MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS HAVE 39% 66% MENTAL HEALTH report some form of mental health Issue report elther substance use and/or mental health problems PROBLEMS: Between 150-200,000 Salt Lake City, Utah Des Moines, lowa of the homeless have SCHIZOPHRENIA or Richmond, Virginia BIPOLAR DISORDER. Dayton, Ohio This is the rough equivalent to the population of any of these cities: Grand Rapids, Michigan Fort Lauderdale, Florida Money Matters Proper care for metal health Issues often comes at a price those living In poverty can't afford $; THE TRUTH HURTS Lack of money is the #1 reason why adults in America do not receive proper mental health services ... •..... ...... ..... ...... Lack of No money treatment A SAD CYCLE Lack of Mental work Health deteriorates ... could it also be the reason so many mentally ill contunue to live below the poverty line? | Brought to you by: BestMSWPrograms.com Sources http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus11.pdf http://journals.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?Volume=53&page=565&journallD=18#R53510911 http://mentalillnesspolicy.org/consequences/homeless-mentally-ill.html http://homeless.samhsa.gov/ResourceFiles/hrc_factsheet.pdf http://anxletypanichealth.com/2008/10/15/a-national-shame-the-mentally-Ill-homeless/ http://www.naml.org/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm?ContentFilelD=126233 http://www.bread.org/hunger/us/facts.html 2010 Annual Social and Economic Supplements from the Current Population Survey. U.S. Census Bureau, 2011. Urban Institute, Transitioning In and Out of Poverty. 2007. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-20/local/37193481_1_poverty-rates-blacks-hispanics nkprogress.org/health/2013/01/24/1489091/americans-Just-cant-afford-mental-health-treatment/?mobile=nc http://www.endhomelessness.org/library/entry/the-state-of-homelessness-2013 http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/526/homeless-facts.html http://www.tacreports.org/bedstudy http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/sulcide.htm