Community engagement and mental health expert, Dr. Marc Atkins, comments on Mayor Johnson’s plans to reopen Chicago’s mental health clinics
Brandon Johnson campaigned on reopening mental health clinics. Will he follow through?
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“Clinics are just ‘one tool in the toolbox’,” said Marc Atkins, UIC professor of psychiatry and psychology and director of CCTS’s community engagement and collaboration core.
Newly appointed Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, campaigned on reopening the city’s shuttered mental health clinics. However, his new administration not determined how they will approach their goal of creating “a more comprehensive system of care and structures of care that ultimately are driven by public resources in collaboration with community.”
As a mental health practitioner and community engagement expert, Atkins shared his perspectives on the mayor’s policy options with WBEZ’s Tessa Weinberg.