The group of teens from across Chicago that advise adult city leaders - like the mayor himself - on how better serve some of our youngest residents.
The 32 bright young minds work inside the Mayor's office. CBS 2'S Lauren Victory on Thursday explained their mission and one of their many accomplishments completed this week.
Lal, a youth commissioner from Lincoln Park, isn't in that footage -- and didn't come in front of CBS 2 cameras -- to demand more resources. "If you're a young person looking for mental health care in Chicago, you'd come across an overwhelming list," she said."It kind of deters you from seeking help for yourself," she said.Joshua Clark
Faith Townsell, a youth commissioner from North Lawndale, says she believes the city is taking the teenage participants seriously.They are willing, various city departments are willing to come directly to the Mayor's Youth Commission and ask them, 'What can we do better?'" Those are just some of the solutions inside 55 pages of ideas the youth commission recently published. Former Mayor Lori Lightfoot signed an executive order to make the pilot project a permanent part of future mayoral administrations."That was really, really exciting. It feels also really good to say as a young person, I belong to an official advisory body in the third largest city in America," said Townsell.
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