PCI Receives Planning Grant for School Based Tele-Behavioral Health

Published: February 1, 2017

In December 2016, the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute awarded Partnership for a Connected Illinois with a $21,600 planning grant to implement demonstration projects it the Chicago Public Schools to provide school-based tele-behavioral health.  States across the country have successfully implement these programs that address the huge, unmet need of children to receive behavioral health care. PCI has been organizing communities throughout the state to launch demonstration project.  (See the case statement.) 

The Sprague Institute is a nonprofit foundation established on January 6, 1911 to investigate of the causes of disease and the prevention and relief of human suffering in the City of Chicago.