Between February 15 and March 18, 2024, representatives from the Collaborative for Community Wellness (CCW) hosted a series of seven listening sessions across the city of Chicago. The aim of the listening sessions was to facilitate small group conversations where community members could share past experiences with public mental health services, if applicable, and their… Read more

Treatment Not Trauma (TNT) is a plan that seeks to break this cycle with a public health model for community mental health and shared safety that invests in a community care worker corps backed by City-run mental health centers integrated with both mental health crisis call lines and non-police crisis response teams. TNT begins from… Read more

​From July through October 2023, a team of sociologists from the University of Illinois at Chicago interviewed 23 residents of Chicago about their experiences with mental health crisis response. In partnership with the Collaborative for Community Wellness, we set out to learn about people’s actual experiences with mental health services and crisis response in our city.… Read more