A new report suggests that the city of Chicago has not fully kept
track of some of its patients amid the closing of mental health
clinics.
The study released this week by the AFSCME Council 31
public employees union and the Mental Health Movement coalition finds
that on March 1 the city counted 3,282 patients using Chicago Department
of Public Health, or CDPH, mental health services.
By July 24, following the April closing of six the city's 12 CDPH mental health clinics, the number of patients dropped to 2,798. Read more »
Almost exactly six months after protesters occupied the since shuttered
Woodlawn mental health clinic in Chicago, a Cook County Judge ruled yesterday that four protesters who took part are guilty of criminal trespass.
Foes of Chicago closing six of its 12 mental health clinics in
April will air their grievances today in a new venue – the Cook County
Criminal Court.
Five protesters charged with trespassing at the
since closed Woodlawn mental health clinic will use the
“necessity defense” according to their attorney James Fennerty, who
spoke at a press conference this morning outside the courthouse.
Defendants invoke the necessity defense when they claim to have
committed a crime so as to benefit the public good.
“These people
don’t deny that they trespassed,” Fennerty said. “But they were doing it
to prevent a greater evil — meaning the closing down of the clinics and
people not getting their mental health care, and not getting their drugs
or seeing their therapist.” Read more »
More than 2,000 NATO and anti-war protestors gathered in Grant Park
Sunday before they took to the streets and descended on McCormick Place
where world leaders are meeting for the summit.
Protestors with
various causes such as ending drone attacks and promoting women’s rights
overseas held signs, chanted in megaphones and waved peace signs as a
heavy police presence lined the park and the surrounding streets. Read more »
Mental health advocates intensified their opposition today to the city’s plan to close six of 12 mental health clinics by occupying the lobby outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office – even as the city confirmed that they would go forward today with the last four clinic closings. Read more »
Mental Health advcates are occupying the lobby of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall office to protest the city's plan to close four mental health clinics later today.
Ten mental health advocates were arrested last night outside the Woodlawn clinic and their tent city was taken down by police as they camped out in protest of the closing of six facilities.
A new report suggests that the city of Chicago has not fully kept
track of some of its patients amid the closing of mental health
clinics.
More than 2,000 NATO and anti-war protestors gathered in Grant Park
Sunday before they took to the streets and descended on McCormick Place
where world leaders are meeting for the summit.
Mental health advocates intensified their opposition today to the city’s plan to close six of 12 mental health clinics by occupying the lobby outside Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office – even as the city confirmed that they would go forward today with the last four clinic closings. 