When residents of some of the city’s most violent neighborhoods need mental health treatment, they often seek help from social service and community organizations in their neighborhoods — help that can be hard to find.

Author Archives: Alexandria Johnson
Alexandria Johnson is an aspiring investigative reporter finishing up her senior year at Northwestern University. She is a participant in the Medill School of Journalism’s Accelerated Master’s Program. She has worked as a consumer investigative reporting intern at ABC News’s The Fixer column, helping viewers resolve their consumer problems; field produced for CBS 2 Chicago for her undergraduate journalism residency; and interned at WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight” program. She also traveled to New Orleans to work on a multimedia package about a potential wrongful convictions case as an investigative reporting student with the Medill Justice Project and traveled to New Orleans to work.