Quality of Life Indicators
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Mental Health & Social Wellbeing Data
Suicide rates are a marker of mental wellbeing and represent a cost to the community in terms of productive lives cut short; business employee assistance programs provide access to treatment when needed. This is a new indicator identified by the community in the 2006 update process.
Juvenile Services mental health case evaluations -- new 11/11/10
youth suicidal risk behavior -- updated 2/23/12
suicide rates -- updated 12/18/10
treatment capacity
percent jail inmates with mental illness
Juvenile Services mental health case evaluations -- new 11/11/10
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Washoe County Juvenile Services collaborates with Social Services to provide youth under 18-years of age under their care with unified mental health assessment, treatment and care management services. Juvenile Services also collaborates with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and community partners in evaluating substance abuse as a part of the ADAPT program.
suicide rates -- updated 12/18/10
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Suicide rates are a marker of mental wellbeing. Nevadans commit suicide at a rate that continues to be almost twice the national average. Suicide is one of the data measures likely impacted by economic and health risk factors. According to the Department of Health & Human Services suicide statistics research, Nevada ranked 2nd in the nation for suicide deaths in 2004 and 2005; and ranked 4th in 2006. The majority of Nevada suicide deaths are between the ages 26-64. In 2004, 9.8% of suicide deaths were under the age of 25, which increased to 14% in 2006.
According to Washoe County’s senior citizen’s strategic plan 2006-2016, 22% of Nevada suicides in 2003 (96 persons) were persons ages 65 or older. Washoe County Senior Citizen’s Strategic Plan In contrast, 2.9% of adolescents in 2003, grades 9-12, reported suicide attempts in the past 12-months.
The Kaiser Foundation, State Health Facts site, reports Nevada mental health expenditures per capita in fiscal year 2004 were $54.45, compared to $93.04 for the US. Kaiser Foundation, State Health Facts
Fast Facts reported by the Reno Gazette Journal, December 6, 2007, 90% of Nevada suicide victims had a mental health and/or substance abuse problem but had not been seen by health professional. The rate of depression in Nevadans 26 and older is the highest in the nation. According to the draft 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey results, 13.6% of WCSD students reported actually attempting suicide in the past 12-months vs. 13.8% of Nevada students.”
treatment capacity
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Measures are unclear and currently being researched.
percent jail inmates with mental illness
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Nevada State Supreme Court Selected to Participate In National Criminal Justice/Mental Health Initiative
Release Date: February 28th, 2007
Source: http://www.nvsupremecourt.us/info/news/index.php?contentID=111
Nevada has been selected as one of seven states to participate in a national project to assist state Supreme Court Chief Justices in addressing treatment options for people whose mental illnesses bring them in contact with the criminal justice system. An estimated 24 percent of Nevada’s 12,800 prison inmates suffer from mental illness or are developmentally disabled, increasing the costs of incarceration, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
s 12,800 prison inmates suffer from mental illness or are developmentally disabled, increasing the costs of incarceration, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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