She was a STOP mental-health leader, STOP board member, artist, musician, and much more. She passed away last Friday.

Individuals with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed In a police encounter

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Register to Zoom about an ordinance that would direct dollars from the Biden administration to communities hit hardest by disinvestment and now the pandemic.

Register to Zoom about how we can push the money towards what our communities need, like police-free mental-health crisis response — #TreatmentNotTrauma.

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.

We demand that Mayor Lightfoot uphold her campaign promise to reopen the clinics and invest FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS into City-run mental health services.

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.

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.

Calling all STOP and community members! bit.ly/stoptownhall

On Wednesday January 16, at 1pm the City Council will hold a historic hearing about an ordinance calling for a task force to explore re-opening mental health clinics. This is just the beginning.

On November 12, the Community Benefits Agreement coalition marched with over 100 people to stop displacement and demand a CBA Ordinance.