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May is Mental Health Awareness Month and La Rabida Children’s Hospital has been working to address the mental and behavioral health needs of young Chicagoans. Photo Credit: La Rabida Children’s Hospital

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South Side Children’s Hospital Offers Mental And Behavioral Health Care For Young People

Since 1949, Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in the United States during the month of May and while mental health is important in every corner of the world, activists in Chicago have been begging the city to reinvest in mental health services since 2012 when half of the public mental health clinics in Chicago were closed.