Figure 16 is titled "Mental Health Treatment among Adults Aged 18 or Older with Serious Mental Illness, by Race/Ethnicity: 2002." It is a bar graph, where the horizontal axis represents race/ethnicity and the vertical axis represents percent receiving mental health treatment. There are three race/ethnicity categories: White (Non-Hispanic), Black (Non-Hispanic), and Hispanic. For each race/ethnicity, the percentage receiving mental health treatment is as follows:

Of whites (non-Hispanic) with serious mental illness (SMI), 51.9% received mental health treatment.
Of blacks (non-Hispanic) with SMI, 36.9% received mental health treatment.
Of Hispanics with SMI, 37.8% received mental health treatment.

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SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.