# Mental Health Foundation launches children's appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/05/24/mental-health-foundation-launches-children039s-appeal/
- Published: 2005-05-24T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Mental Health Foundation has launched an appeal to raise money for a project
to help children of parents with a severe mental health problem.
The Mental Health
Foundation hopes its May 2005 appeal, which will be mailed to current donors, will
raise over £26,000 for its Children of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness project.
The money will be used to discover exactly how services can help children build 
resilience to their parents’ illnesses.

According to the Foundation, 60% of women with a serious mental illness have children
under the age of 16. These children are at a much higher risk of developing a mental
health problem than others but there are very few centres in the UK dedicated to
their needs.

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