City Council voted unanimously to fund the development of a walk-in mental health crisis center in Evanston with up to $900,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act on Monday. Designed to emulate the cozy feeling of a living room, the Living Room Program will offer a free alternative to hospitalization and law enforcement intervention for.
One year after its establishment, the Alternative Emergency Response Subcommittee will begin working with the state to implement a plan for alternate responders to address behavioral- and mental-health related 911 calls. The committee made progress on a plan replacing police officers with mental health crisis workers for responses to mental health emergency calls, Subcommittee Chair.
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Ellen Galland
Ellen Galland has lived in Evanston since 1977. Her three daughters went through the Evanston school system and her twin granddaughters are now at Dewey School. She has had an architectural practice in Evanston since 1983, until recently located in the storefront of a former bakery on Florence Avenue. She graduated from Vassar College and the University of Illinois School of Architecture. She has served on the boards of Housing Options for the Mentally Ill in Evanston, now Impact Behavioral Health Partners, the Evanston History Center, and the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse.For more than 20 years she has written articles for the RoundTable, including, at one time, the biweekly column “Ask An Architect.
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