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Mayor Brandon Johnson is expanding city-run mental health services at three locations across Chicago, a crucial step toward implementing the so-called “treatment, not trauma” plan he promoted during his election campaign.
Mayor Johnson is scheduled to announce the measures this morning outside the closed Roseland Clinic in the city’s south end, which is scheduled to reopen by the end of the year. According to plans shared with the Tribune by the Johnson administration, the city also plans to add mental health services to a Chicago Department of Public Health clinic in Pilsen in August and at the Legler Regional Library in West Garfield Park in June.
The move comes more than a decade after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel closed six of the city’s 12 public psychiatric clinics, a decision that sparked outrage from patients and union members who lost their jobs at those clinics, sparking a campaign that has dogged Chicago politicians ever since.
Read the full article by the Tribune’s Jake Sheridan.
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