Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will announce a plan to give children access to mental health treatment

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker will announce his plan to give residents, especially younger people, better access to mental health support.

"It’s all really geared toward creating an experience for families, where the boundaries between those different state agencies that are there to serve them are less visible," said Dana Weiner, whom Pritzker tabbed for the initiative. She is on loan from the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, where she is senior policy fellow.

"What families (should) experience is a simplified, centralized, clear way to get access to services to understand what their children are struggling with and to identify the things that might help address those challenges," Weiner.