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New Illinois initiative aims to improve children’s behavioral health services

Guiller Ako wheels her 15-month-old son Alejandro Ako into a meeting with the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in Chicago. In March of 2022, Governor JB Pritzker announced a new interagency working group involving the IDHFS and five other state agencies to better support children in need of behavioral health services and their families.

M. Spencer Green

New Illinois initiative aims to improve children’s behavioral health services

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

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