New Illinois initiative aims to improve children’s behavioral health services
The plan builds on the Pritzker administration’s increased funding for child welfare and wellbeing.
By Stephanie Kim
New Illinois initiative aims to improve children’s behavioral health services
The plan builds on the Pritzker administration’s increased funding for child welfare and wellbeing.
By Stephanie Kim
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Governor JB Pritzker says the children’s health system in Illinois is “inefficient, confusing and difficult to navigate” for families. His new Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative aims to make it easier to access holistic, wraparound services for adolescents in need.
Reset learns more about how the new plan is working to improve the system.
GUESTS: Dana Weiner, director of the Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative
Sara Anderson, associate director of the Center for Children and Families at Erikson Institute