Title
Resolution establishing a Mental Health Coalition to study and collaborate with stakeholders and service providers to affect mutual community level goals of reducing and preventing mental, emotional and behavioral health illnesses in Lake County.
Staff Summary
• Mental health challenges impact each and every community, creating crisis situations that affect the individuals with a mental health condition, as well as their families, friends, communities, and workplaces.
• There are many strong programs and providers serving this population, and through greater community collaboration, can leverage these existing programs, collect and share data, and enhance and improve these services for our community members.
• Lake County Chairman Aaron Lawlor and former Senator Susan Garrett will lead a community based initiative focused on data-sharing and evidence-based practices to address gaps and develop a connected sustainable continuum of care on mental health.
• The group will work to address factors in communities that increase or contribute to the risk of mental illness, promoting aspects that support, expand, and enhance preventative strategies and reducing risk.
• The Coalition will consist of treatment providers from various organizations, including representatives of the County Board, other current or former elected officials, local hospitals, health department, homeless and housing agencies, education and employment agencies, consumer agencies, and law enforcement and justice.
Body
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, mental health challenges impact each and every community, creating crisis situations that affect the individuals with a mental health condition, as well as their families, friends, communities, and workplaces.
WHEREAS, there are many strong programs and providers serving this population, and through greater community collaboration, can leverage these existing programs, collect and share data, and enhance and improve these services for our community members.
WHEREAS, Lake County Chairman Aaron Lawlor and former Senator Susan Garrett will lead a community based initiative focused on data-sharing and evidence-based practices to address gaps and develop a connected sustainable continuum of care on mental health
WHEREAS, the group will work to address factors in communities that increase or contribute to the risk of mental illness, promoting aspects that support, expand, and enhance preventative strategies and reducing risk; and
WHEREAS, the Coalition will consist of treatment providers from various organizations, including representatives of the County Board, other current or former elected officials, local hospitals, health department, homeless and housing agencies, education and employment agencies, consumer agencies, and law enforcement and justice.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by this County Board of Lake County, Illinois, that a Mental Health Coalition be created.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the following members be appointed:
(Co Chairs):
o Aaron Lawlor, County Board Chairman
o Susan Garrett, Former Illinois Senator, 29th District)
County Board Member
o Sandra Hart, County Board Member, Vice Chair of Health and Community Services
Hospitals:
o Barbara Martin, Vista Health System
o Dr. Debra Susie-Lattner, Advocate Condell Medical Center
o vacant, North Shore Health System
o vacant, Northwestern Hospital
Health Department
o Timothy Sashko, Lake County Board of Health
Housing/Homelessness
o Mary Ellen Tamasy, Lake County Residential Development Corp.
o Mark Ishaug, Thresholds
Employment/Education
o Jennifer Harris, Workforce Development Board
o Rich Haney, College of Lake County
Consumer
o Mary Jouppi, NAMI Lake County
o Kathy Pierson, Lake County United
o Ernest Vasseur, Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County
o Dora Maya, Arden Shores representing the Lake County Mental Health Collaborative
Justice
o Michael Nerheim, State’s Attorney
o Mark Curran, Sheriff
o Christen Bishop, 19th Judicial Circuit Court
DATED at Waukegan, Illinois, on this 8th day of November, 2016.