Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic Revenue and Competitors

Our mission is to provide accessible community-based mental health services and advocacy that promote healthy and resilient lives for children and families. Our nationally recognized programs and multi-disciplinary approach to therapy have made us a leader since our founding in 1913. In fact, we are one of the oldest community-based non-profit outpatient mental health clinics in America. Statistics Tell the Story* Nationally: Child abuse occurs at every socio-economic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education. Children who have been sexually abused are 2.5 times more likely to abuse alcohol and 3.8 times more likely to become drug addicts. Four children die every day as a result of child abuse, and three out of four of these victims are under the age of four. Men and women serving time in the nation's prisons and jails report a higher incidence of abuse as children than the general population. In Connecticut: A child is abused or neglected in Connecticut every 41 minutes. In Connecticut, 9.5% of male students reported that they carried a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club on school property on one or more of the past 30 days. 60% of the children served by the Clinic report being exposed to a traumatic life event.