(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Illinois U.S. Senator Dick Durbin says federal funding for metal health programs will help keep communities safe in the coming months.
Durbin was in Chicago to announce a million dollar grant for the Mental Health Services Agency, Thresholds, which plans to expand their young adult program building.
The senator said this is part of President Biden's bipartisan, Safer Communities Act, which includes $3 billion in additional money for school and community- based mental health care.
"Kids Exposed to violence, exposed to a dysfunctional family struggle to deal with things that other children never even consider and to give counseling or at least make it available makes us a safer place," he said.
You can hear more on mental health and other issues from Durbin on our At Issue program Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m.
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