Collaborative for Community Wellness

This op-ed clearly explains why continued investments in TNT are more important than ever!!! Please read and connect with our efforts by signing up at collaborativeforcommunitywellness.org chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/20…

The 2025 Chicago City Budget passed through the City Council this past Monday. Swipe to read the statement from the Public Health & Safety Coalition. We'll keep organizing until the public health, safety, and equity are a reality for the people of this city.

At city hall this morning before expected budget vote, calling to fortify public health & safety infrastructure by rightsizing the CPD vacancies they can not spend.

🚨🚨Urgent alert! Please take a minute to reach out to your alder as we have the opportunity to establish sustained funding for program and departments that support healthy and safe communities!✊ Use this link to get connected to your alder bit.ly/chibudgetaction

Join us Monday at 11am at city hall as we rally to invest in public health and safety!

Join us tomorrow morning at 9am at City Hall as we continue to endure the budget is not balanced on the back of the public health and safety of our communities!

Rossana Rodriguez, 33rd Ward - The more we take care of people the less we are going to need police when people are in crisis.

We are tired of our neighbors dying preventable deaths. Wesley Epplin, Policy Director at the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group passing this amendment will help fix that.

Reynia Jackson, youth organizer with GoodKids MadCity @GKMC18 explains how right sizing police vacancies could fully fund peace book and provide chicago youth the resources they need to reduce violence and make neighborhoods safer.

Muriel Jones Handy, Greater Grand Crossing resident shares how taking out officer vacancies, that can not be safely or reasonably filled, could avoid property tax increase and fully fund CDPH and guaranteed income pilot.

Arturo speaking at health and safety press conf at city hall calling for rightsizing CPD vacancies in order to avoid property tax increase and cuts to CDPH.

We're at City Hall with the Public Health and Safety coalition giving a solution to close the budget gap and avoid a property tax x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

💭This is a huge campaign win and only the beginning. There needs to be sustainable funding to expand services to ensure every Chicagoan can receive the care they deserve. 📞Call your alder: bit.ly/tnt-call to say we will not allow cuts to CDPH!

Starting off our Wednesday with good news ✨ 🫂 The Pilsen South Ashland Health Hub is now providing bilingual mental health services - one of the mental health centers promised to reopen by the end of this year.

Sonya Massey is why we fight so hard for #TreatmentNotTrauma, no one deserves to lose their life for having a mental health crisis at the hands of the police escalation. Chicago and all the state of IL need to move faster to establish non-police response to mental health crises!

During Mental Health Awareness Month, we are rebuilding our City’s mental health care infrastructure to serve all Chicagoans. My administration will not stand for more cuts, privatization, or neglect of our City’s mental health care system.

Cheryl Miller repping @STOPChicago, grounding us in the work of the Mental Health Movement and honoring the lives of those who fought to see the reopening of the clinics.