• The U.S. spent $64.31 per capital on mental health in 2002.

• Texas spends $38.46 per capita on mental health care, making it 49th in the country.

• Texas ranks 32nd in per capita income (Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce).

• Tarrant County spends only $20.76 per capita on mental health care.

• Tarrant County ranked 31st out of 35 reporting counties in per capita mental health allocations in 2002.

• 244 Texas children were relinquished by their parents in 2002 as a last resort to obtain mental health care.

• Those 244 children cost the State of Texas $9.7 million for a year of care.

• Community-based services for those children would have cost the State of Texas $6.3 million.

• Only 3 percent of violent behavior is attributable to a mental disorder.

• Approximately 16 percent of prisoners in Texas have a mental illness.

• 50 percent of youth in the Texas Youth Commission have a mental disorder.