You can reach 700,000 people monthly with your message by becoming a proud sponsor of this award-winning Web site. Click here for more information and contact. Sixty-six percent reported the lack of health insurance parity for the treatment of a mental illness, which 49 percent said impeded needed care. Managed care, families' report, is a significant barrier to needed treatment for everything but medications.
Money matters as well.
Fifty-five percent of respondents believe that their child's treatment and service options are limited by their family's income. In some instances the services are just not there. And 43 percent said the types of treatments most helpful to their children are not available. We are the parents of three little boys-one of whom has a severe mental illness. This wasn't the first time our son was in the hospital-nor will it be the last.