Treatment Not Trauma
Track the movement ward by ward — petition and email activity, where each alder stands, and the elected officials and organizations backing the campaign.
What is Treatment Not Trauma?
A Chicago campaign to reopen public mental health centers and build a citywide, non-police crisis response — so care, not criminalization, meets people in crisis.
Preventative care
Reopen all closed public mental health centers and expand where neighborhoods need them.
Care, not criminalization
24/7, citywide non-police mobile crisis response focused on real care in the moment of crisis.
Post-care
Community-based centers that check in after a crisis, plus expanded ongoing services.
Our vision for Chicago
Universal, barrier-free access — everyone can get free, quality mental healthcare.
A full range of care at every center, culturally grounded in community needs.
Citywide non-police crisis teams as first responders, integrated with CDPH public mental health centers.
A unionized public workforce of Community Care Workers — peer specialists for crisis and ongoing care.
Local community advisory boards at each center for accountability and quality.
What we're fighting for
Reopen the 12 closed centers
Restore public infrastructure by reopening every public mental health center closed under prior administrations — and expand where there's need.
Citywide "Living Rooms"
24/7 integrated facilities for immediate de-escalation and triage, freestanding or built into existing centers.
24/7 citywide non-police response
Scale the CARE team to be the default citywide response for behavioral and social crises, around the clock.
A Community Care Worker Corps
Hire and train peer support specialists with lived experience through the City Colleges of Chicago.
Where every ward stands
Petition and email activity, each alder's alignment, and the electeds and organizations backing the campaign — across all 50 wards.
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