Mental health Archives – South Side Weekly

Crisis Response In Turmoil: Chicago’s CARE Program at a Tipping Point

by Rachel Heimann Mercader and Claire Murphy July 25, 2025August 1, 2025

Chicago’s mental health crisis teams were meant to replace police with clinicians. Bureaucratic dysfunction and fading federal support now threaten their survival.

Latina Frontwomen Redefine Sisterhood

by Jocelyn Martinez Rosales February 27, 2025September 15, 2025

Two Mental Health Districts Added to South Side

by Curtis Black December 17, 2024December 17, 2024

Chicago Advocates and Clinicians Come Together to Support Mental Health of Immigrants in Peril

by Alma Campos and MIndSite News December 12, 2024December 12, 2024

Latest, Lit, The Exchange

The Exchange: KonMari and Yoga

by Chima Ikoro and Victoria Mendiola May 24, 2024May 24, 2024

Public Meetings Report. Illustration by Holley Appold/South Side Weekly

Public Meetings Report — February 1, 2024

by Scott Pemberton and Documenters February 5, 2024February 12, 2024

City Council Moves Forward on Treatment Not Trauma

by Jim Daley October 5, 2023October 5, 2023

‘Doesn’t Make it Wrong’

by Jim Daley September 1, 2023January 13, 2024

Op-ed: Referendum Results Show Chicago Wants Treatment, not Trauma

by Asha Ransby-Sporn November 30, 2022November 30, 2022

Medicaid Patients Struggle to Access Mental Health Care

by Emma Ricketts September 17, 2022September 26, 2022