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Our mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote independent functioning and to facilitate personal growth for adults with a history of mental illness. To achieve this, Independence Center provides ongoing social, educational, vocational, housing opportunities and an onsite crisis intervention center.

Members come to us from all over Lake County. Their ailments don't care about the color of their skin, their religious affiliation or their household income. Regardless of their differences, they are the same in their struggles to rise above their mental illness.

• 56% of American adults with a mental illness do not receive treatment.
• Each day an estimated 18-22 veterans die by suicide based on mental illness.
• 90% of suicide victims have an underlying mental illness.
• Adults with mental illness die an average of 25 yrs earlier, largely due to treatable conditions.
• 50% of adults battling addiction have a co-occurring mental illness, about 10 million.
• 26% of homeless adults live with a serious mental illness.