• Treatment Not Trauma Collaboration

    Treatment Not Trauma seeks to create a 24-hour crisis response hotline for mental health-related emergencies and to reopen Chicago’s shuttered mental health clinics.
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    Centering the heart of the campaign

    Tonal Simmons captured the faces of the mental health justice movement through these evocative images and quotes that highlight why mental health services and investments matter.

    Telling the history of the campaign

     

    Mia Festo researched, conducted interviews, and edited this informative and powerful video, which tells the story of the Treatment Not Trauma campaign through the voices of leaders and elected officials who were there.

     

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