Chapin Hall

To commemorate Mental Health Awareness Month, Illinois high school students moderated a roundtable discussion on May 27 with Governor JB Pritzker, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health Sameer Vohra, State Superintendent Tony Sanders, and Chapin Hall’s Dr. Dana Weiner. The youth asked questions of state leaders about the impact of social media on youth mental health and measures being taken to safeguard youth well-being.

“I was very impressed with the young people who facilitated our discussion, and encouraged by their initiative, commitment, and courage in using their own lived experience to motivate and inform policy advocacy on behalf of all Illinois youth,” said Dana Weiner, who is currently serving in Pritzker’s administration as the Chief Officer for Children’s Behavioral Health Transformation.

Weiner is leading the implementation of the Blueprint for Transformation: A Vision for Improved Behavioral Healthcare for Illinois Children, the data-driven roadmap she developed for the state in 2022. Explore that here:https://www.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/gov/documents/childrens-health-web.pdf

Chapin Hall is an Associate Researcher for a 2-year fellowship to serve as a Data Liaison for the OPT-In For Families initiative funded by the Doris Duke Foundation.

This is a multi-state pilot designed to strengthen community-based responses for families screened out from the Child Protective Services Hotline.

Explore the role and apply through the Current Job Openings button on this page: https://www.chapinhall.org/why-work-at-chapin-hall/