(WTTW News) A decade-long push to reopen public mental health clinics closed in 2011 and expand efforts to respond to 911 calls for help not with police officers but with social workers... Read more »
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A proposal to reopen the city’s mental health clinics and expand non-police responses to 911 calls — signature pieces of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive platform — received a symbolic boost at a... Read more »
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters here. Her daughter’s anxiety was spiraling out of control and Jaquetta Johnson couldn’t find help. Last fall, as the Delaware... Read more »
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Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inauguration pledge to reopen Chicago’s city-run mental health clinics puts him on the clock to deliver a win for advocates who have been waging that fight for more than... Read more »