Mayor Brandon Johnson campaigned on a promise to reopen Chicago's shuttered mental health clinics and dramatically expand an alternative response program.
Mayor Brandon Johnson campaigned on a promise to reopen Chicago's shuttered mental health clinics and dramatically expand an alternative response program that frees Chicago police officers from a responsibility to respond to mental health emergencies.
The hearing, she said, was "in the name of Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones, Irene Chavez, Laquan McDonald and so many others who did not receive the care they desperately needed. This work is for them, their loved ones and to ensure this never happens again." Reinhart isn't just urging Johnson and his Council allies to re-open the six mental health clinics famously shuttered by former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. What post-pandemic Chicago really needs, Reinhart said, is to reopen the 19 mental health clinics it had during the 1980s under former Mayor Harold Washington.
"'Treatment Not Trauma' is not simply about mobile, non-police crisis response but is necessarily part of an inter-woven system for building a real public community mental health system in Chicago. Something the city has never had and that, frankly, no American city has ever had," Reinhart said. The Council initially delayed confirmation of Arwady's appointment because she did not support re-opening those shuttered clinics.
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