Mayor announces re-opening of clinic our member chained himself to
THREE mental-health sites will open — one in Roseland. And police have been removed from "CARES" crisis response.
Let the memory of Carol Sawall Smith be a blessing
She was a STOP mental-health leader, STOP board member, artist, musician, and much more. She passed away last Friday.
Cops, clinics & mental-health crisis response: get the facts!
Individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed In a police encounter
Criminalizing people in crisis: Chicago’s new law
Our coalition is troubled by creation of a new crime: so-called battery against emergency services personnel. Under it, no actual physical contact is required to be charged with a misdemeanor and fined or jailed.
93% of voters want Treatment Not Trauma
The referendum of voters in the 6th, 20th, 33rd Wards called for the City to re-open all of its closed mental-health centers — and to do so in support of police-free mental-health emergency response.
6th Ward aldermanic forum on mental health: Feb. 4
We’ll get to ask candidates what they’ll do in light of 6th Ward voting overwhelmingly that the City should re-open mental-health centers and run police-free mental-health emergency response.
WE can vote on the clinics & housing we want! Zoom 10/25
Join our town hall at 6pm on October’s fourth Tuesday. We’ll talk about the referendum on mental-health clinics now on November 8 ballots, and an affordable-housing referendum we want on February 2023 ballots.
Zoom on re-opening clinics & the City budget: 9/27 6pm
We just put a mental-health referendum on key areas’ ballots! We now have more opportunity than ever to re-open clinics through annual budgeting this fall. Let’s discuss at our town hall.
6th ward: Zoom on Treatment Not Trauma
City Hall is holding a hearing on an ordinance to help fund a robust PUBLIC mental health care system. Join us on Wed. 2/23, especially if you live around Chatham, Englewood, Grand Crossing, or Auburn-Gresham!
Celebrate and de-brief our clinic victory: 11/30 5pm on Zoom
For the first time since Mayor Emanuel closed most of Chicago's clinics a decade ago, we and our coalitions won an increase in spending on City mental-health clinics.
Mental-health victory: after a decade’s fight, more funding for public clinics!
We and allies won a 72% increase in staffing. Our organizer said, “We will remain in this fight until there is a free public mental health center in every ward of Chicago!” Read our statement.
$2 billion Chicago Rescue Plan: town hall on 9/28 6pm
Register to Zoom about an ordinance that would direct dollars from the Biden administration to communities hit hardest by disinvestment and now the pandemic.
Chicago’s budget + $1.8 billion for communities? Town hall on 8/24 6pm!
Register to Zoom about how we can push the money towards what our communities need, like police-free mental-health crisis response — #TreatmentNotTrauma.
Town hall on city AND STATE non-police response! This Tues., 5/25, 5-6pm.
We’ll hear about the Community Emergency Services and Support Act. It developed with the family of Stephon Watts, an autistic teenager killed by police in his home.
Petition — and rally on April 12, the 9-year clinic-closure anniversary
We demand that Mayor Lightfoot uphold her campaign promise to reopen the clinics and invest FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS into City-run mental health services.
Welcome our new public-health organizer, Cheryl Miller!
She has been active in social justice causes ranging from anti-war and peace movements, anti-domestic violence, and AIDS activism. Most recently, Cheryl helped to lead the fight to organize a union for cab drivers.
Apply to be our public-health organizer!
The full-time organizer will lead the campaign for opening and fully funding the City’s public mental-health clinics, and will assist the youth-led campaign to remove police from schools and reinvest in restorative alternatives.
Town hall on mental health Tues., May 19, 5-6pm
Calling all STOP and community members! bit.ly/stoptownhall