More than 200,000 adults in Washington live with serious mental illness and more than 70,000 children live with serious mental health conditions. Nationally, suicide is the eleventh-leading cause of death overall and is the third-leading cause of death among youth and young adults aged 15-24. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. We recently invited Cynthia Macklin, President on the Board of Director’s for NAMI Pierce, to talk about his. Listen to our talk right here.