Did You Know?
- Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.
- More than 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection.
- There are 750,000 teen pregnancies every year.
- The typical high school student hears anti-gay slurs 25.5 times a day.
- Over 70% of girls age 15 to 17 avoid normal daily activities, such as attending school, when they feel bad about their looks.
- Every year, one out of every five people is a victim of a crime in the United States.
- One in 20 Americans live with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression.
- More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease, COMBINED.
Half of people reading this will ignore it
So…What Matters to You?
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Sources
Jason Foundations
http://jasonfoundation.com/prp/facts/youth-suicide-statistics/
Dosomething.org