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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in late 2023 released provisional data showing that nearly 50,000 people died by suicide in the United States in 2022—nearly 17 times the number killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This nearly 3% increase from 2021 is the highest number ever recorded and the highest rate since 1941 — during the aftershocks of the Great Depression. According to the CDC, adolescent mental health, especially among teen girls, is at a crisis point.

Yet women attending religious services at least weekly are 68% less likely to die “deaths of despair”—suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol poisoning. Men are 33% less likely, according to 2020 research from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) reported states with declining religious attendance correlated with increased deaths of despair, and vice versa. A literature review appearing in Psychiatric Times reported, “Of 93 observational studies, two-thirds found lower rates of depressive disorder with fewer depressive symptoms in persons who were more religious … Of 22 longitudinal studies, 15 [68%] found that greater religiousness predicted mild symptoms and faster remission at follow-up."

Healthy Faith is a media, musical, and educational campaign designed to illuminate the scientifically-documented mental, physical, emotional, and societal benefits of engaging in regular faith practice centered around belief in the healing power of God. 

• Your support of Health Faith brings messages to heal mental health in schools, churches, colleges, and other community groups.

• Your support of Healthy Faith empowers audiences to heal from mental illness and build Dr. Martin Luther King's "Beloved Community," a vision for an empowered, loving, abundant, and vibrant society.