Mental Health Movement

@STOPchicago and coalition organizing to re-open the City's FREE PUBLIC mental-health clinics. And organizing for the #humanright to #healthcare. Since 2007.

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

We're a project of @STOPchicago. Follow us there!

[BLMChicago @BLMChi]

Join @STOPChicago fam & us this Friday as we celebrate TNT Victory https://t.co/qzxW8Ccj0t

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

Starting today, the first $5000 in contributions to us will be matched by the Foundation for Aging!

Support now: https://t.co/LMM0EKX91v

And review our year and cause with Mike Scott, South Side school aide and our treasurer. https://t.co/0MK4gC9NEm

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

Thanks to our Ms Diane Adams for representing us!

[Chicago United for Equity @cueChicago]

Chicagoans have been building the #PeoplesBudgetChicago since last summer.

Our top priority? Mental Health.

Here's why:

[Chicago United for Equity @cueChicago]

So far, 27 City Councilmembers have signed on to direct $10 million to public mental health in next year's budget.

Is your alder one of them?🧐 https://t.co/6k7sRYUaTX

Call / Tag your alder & ask them for their support of #TreatmentNotTrauma today: https://t.co/LGRbBWHs8S

[US Human Rights Network @USHRN]

😼 "We are humans not consumers" **public** health is a human right @ChicagoMHM +

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

We'll be there! Will you? https://t.co/jhWocfaCyv

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

Attention! STOP is seeking to #hire a new #ExecutiveDirector.

After over a decade of service, Alex, our current director, is moving on. We're grateful for his leadership.

Spread the word, or apply! https://t.co/5EiCbVFXaf

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

Join us, @STOPchicago, and Chicago's Collaborative for Community Wellness if you're in the 6th ward! Or invite friends from there!

You're as important as ever to passing #TreatmentNotTrauma -- police-free mental-health response -- in Chicago's City Council.

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

So we just removed one police officer from Hyde Park Academy. It's a dramatic reversal from the school’s decision last year. And it's unprecedented a majority-black South/West Side school. Now your donations are key to getting ALL #CopsOutCPS! https://t.co/qAdCIYjTii

[Rossana Rodriguez 🌹🇵🇷✊🏽🏳️‍🌈 @RossanaFor33]

🧵I introduced a council order in 2020 to create a crisis response and care model that integrates our public mental health clinics. It was modeled after the kind of approach talked about in this article. MLL wanted a co-responder model: clinicians w cops.
https://t.co/DTVGdDHfbD

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

Our organizer, Cheryl Miller, on City clinics:

"We want all of them open."

"Mayor Lightfoot promised to reopen" them, and to "reinvest a minimum of $25 million in rebuilding the public mental health."

"We are now demanding that she honor that.”

https://t.co/KkgAh1ebF7

[small meatball @Chilled_hotdogs]

Maybe you wouldn't see mutual aid as charity if you actually saw poor people as those you build with instead of give to.

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

This evening, meet fellow STOP and community members and leaders!

At 5pm, call or Zoom with us and @STOPchicago's other two member groups - the Chicago Tenants Council and the Hyde Park Academy Social-Justice Club.

https://t.co/QTfZiGBNJU

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

Our bi-annual #membership assembly is TODAY at 5 on Zoom!

That's right, it's time for the People’s Assembly. Shape our organization’s upcoming year with our board reps and staff. Plus, contribute just $5/month in #dues and get #swag :)

https://t.co/PkHkj9Jq8J

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

Asked if she'd reopen public mental health clinics,
@ChicagosMayor Lightfoot said yes. Asked if she'd spend $25M dollars on that, she declared, "Yes and more." https://t.co/RJDcZQHpAq

Call on the mayor to do this with stimulus funds: https://t.co/jDhc4GiAMI #TreatmentNotTrauma

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

Thanks to the ~100 people, 2 aldermen, coalition orgs, and 9+ years of activists who joined us this afternoon -- the 9th anniversary of Mayor Emanuel's closing half of the City's #MentalHealth clinics.

Together we can push @ChicagosMayor Lightfoot to give us #TreatmentNotTrauma!

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

We'll rally today at 4pm at 63rd/Woodlawn! Will you?

[Southside Together @ssidetogether]

TODAY is the 9-year #MentalHealth clinic-closure anniversary. RALLY WITH US AT 4 PM at the Woodlawn Health Center, 6337 S Woodlawn Ave.

Commemorate our struggle -- and demand that
@ChicagosMayor Lightfoot re-open clinics and do #TreatmentNotTrauma with stimulus funds.

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

Now that @STOPchicago has hired us an organizer, help them #hire a #TenantOrganizer! https://t.co/JLn4iZQdCm

[Mental Health Movement @ChicagoMHM]

We have a new #organizer!

South Sider Cheryl Miller succeeds Amika Tendaji, who has become the first executive director of @BLMChi. Congrats to them both :) https://t.co/ZX2JC49STq