“We are going to reopen the mental health clinics,” Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said in an interview with WTTW News, putting it first in a list of his top priorities.
Mayoral candidate Brandon Johnson has said he would not keep on Dr. Allison Arwady at the Chicago Public Health Department. She says regardless, she'll continue to work in public health, wherever that may be.
The proposal would require human service organizations that contract with the city to agree not to disrupt efforts by their employees to unionize as long as workers agree not disrupt the company’s operations while they organize.
Chicago's Trauma Informed Centers of Care, or TICC for short, will provide community-based mental health services regardless of health insurance, immigration status or ability to pay.