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ForestParkReview.com Vol. 108, No. 3
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REVIEW JANUARY 22, 2025
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Board of Health launches mental health survey
It’s one of the board’s first initiatives since it was recreated in 2023 By JESSICA MORDACQ Staff Reporter
Is there a mental health service or resource you wish there was more of in Forest Park? Put in your two cents by taking the Forest Park Board of Health’s community survey on mental health. The questionnaire, launched earlier this month, is one of the board’s first official efforts since it was restructured in 2023. “You have to have a goal and a task for people to know what you’re doing,” said Karen Considine, the Board of Health’s secretary. “That’s what we’re hoping to achieve with the survey, and hopefully we can come up with some good recommendations that are realistic for the village to pursue.” The Forest Park Board of Health was founded in 2002, but became inactive before village staff decided to resurrect it over a decade later. In 2023, the mayor appointed, and the village board confirmed, new members: Chair Mishawn Purnell-O’Neal, Leah Shapiro, Susan Buss, Karen Considine and Lindsey Baish-Flynn. But the new group was given little to go off. Considine said there were no records or details about what the previous board had completed. “We started off with very little official directive,” Considine said, outside of the village ordinance that says the board should
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