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Community Visions for Public Mental Health Services in Chicago: Findings from Citywide Listening Sessions & Survey
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…
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Treatment Not Trauma 2024 Policy Paper
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…
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We Gotta STOP Crimininalizin’ Mental Illness: Experiences with Mental Health Crisis Response in Chicago
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…
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Mental Health Crisis Support in Chicago: Findings from a City-Wide Survey
To help ensure that community perspectives inform future recommendations for the expansion of Chicago’s mental health crisis response system, the CCW surveyed community residents across the city of…
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Examining Barriers to Mental Health Service Accessibility in Chicago’s Privatized Network of Trauma-Informed Centers of Care
Although the Lightfoot administration promoted the Trauma Informed Centers of Care network as offering “no-barrier access to mental health services…across all 77 Chicago community areas,” findings from the…
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Photovoice Project: Mental Health Access for the Chicago Latinx Community in the time of COVID-19
A community-based photovoice project As part of a larger study about the experiences of Latinx and Muslim community members during the Trump administration, this project involved a partnership…