IF…
parents had to give up custody of their children for them to receive treatment for cancer...If people with heart disease ended up on the streets or in prisons because they couldn't get help...If businesses lost billions of dollars due to avian flu...If 30,000 people died each year due to airplane accidents...

This nation would demand action.
When it comes to mental health disorders, there are no "ifs."   Loss of child custody, homelessness, incarceration, lost productivity, and an epidemic of suicide are realities in communities across the country. Mental health is fundamental to overall health and research confirms the link between mind and body and demonstrates that mental illnesses are treatable when individuals have access to appropriate services.

Over 3,000 individuals and 200 organizations have already called for action by signing onto Mental Health America’s national petition drive.  Please join me in this important effort by adding your name to the petition today!/>/>

http://takeaction.mentalhealthamerica.net/vision_for_change

Please sign this and pass it on... I've been rereading some of the post's from last year, it has been a year since 60 minutes, please do not let Timmy's Death be just 5 minutes of out rage last year.

Please... Please.... let's not be so busy that we can not take 15 minutes this year;  today,  to read this petition and past it on to our groups and friends.

We can make a Difference.

You will improve someones life and you will save another mother's child by getting involved. It could someday be your child or your grandchild.

God Bless,

t.