The city will also add mental health services to a Chicago Department of Public Health clinic in Pilsen in August and inside the Legler Regional Library in West Garfield Park.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is expanding city-run mental health services at three locations across Chicago, a decisive step to fulfill the so-called Treatment Not Trauma plan he pushed during his campaign.
“I believe a commitment to mental health and to treating individuals experiencing trauma and not criminalizing them would have extended his time on this Earth,” Johnson said. “For me this work is personal.” Johnson’s team had shared few details about its Treatment Not Trauma plan in recent months, leading some supporters of the campaign to fear the administration would tone down their sweeping vision. Their ideas go far beyond a few clinic reopenings and include calls for the creation of a “community care corps” of workers tasked with proactively preventing mental health crises.
Rodriguez-Sanchez said the city’s past pivot to funding private mental health providers was less sustainable than a public system because it led to worse working conditions and a reliance on impermanent grants. The AFSCME International Union PAC contributed $100,000 to Johnson’s mayoral campaign last year, according to state campaign finance records. And AFSCME Illinois Council 31’s PAC contributed $56,750 to Johnson in 2018 during his successful run for Cook County commissioner.The city has already altered the CDPH’s slow hiring processes to add around 20 clinical workers since January to staff the three expansions, according to the report.
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