CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Delivering on a campaign promise, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Thursday the opening of a Roseland mental health clinic.
The closed Roseland clinic is now set to reopen by the end of year, the mayor declared outside the Roseland Community Health Center at 200 E. 115th Street.
“We are standing here on the Far South Side to make it clear that we are prioritizing those who have been left behind and discarded by previous administrations,” Johnson said.
The Roseland clinic is one of 14 mental health clinics since 1989 that has closed in the city, according to the mayor’s office.
The mayor also announced the addition of mental health services at the Pilsen clinic run by CDPH as well as a partnership with the Legler Regional Library in West Garfield Park to offer mental health services, with those programs rolling out this summer.
The Roseland reopening was one of the major recommendations from the Mental Health System Expansion Working Group, which was established by the City Council last October.
CPD and CFD will also be phased out of the City’s alternate response program, relying instead on care teams staffed by CDPH mental health professionals.
“Because our police officers and firefighters deserve to focus on holding criminals accountable and putting out fires and not responding to mental crises, this is just simply the right and smart thing to do,” said Johnson.
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