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Radio Extra: Neighbors Rally to Build First Community-Funded Health Center

By Jon Hansen | October 30, 2014 10:25pm
 Executive Director Angela Sede�o handles ribbon-cutting duties at the grand opening of the The Kedzie Center, Chicago's first community-funded mental health clinic.
Executive Director Angela Sede�o handles ribbon-cutting duties at the grand opening of the The Kedzie Center, Chicago's first community-funded mental health clinic.
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IRVING PARK — As the city was eliminating mental health facilities, one neighborhood decided to take matters into their own hands. 

The Kedzie Center — Chicago's first mental health clinic paid for directly by the community members it will serve — opened Wednesday in Irving Park, the result of a decade-long advocacy effort that culminated in residents voting to tax themselves in order to fund mental health services.

On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Patty Wetli dives into the red tape the group had to cut through to build the facility, and whether similar clinics are expected in other neighborhoods soon:

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