Recovery Point consumers Send DVDs to Lawmakers

With 600 people at risk of losing substance use and mental health services at C4 Recovery Point, some consumers made DVDs describing the impact C4 has had on their lives.

Herbert Cobbs, Recovery Point counselor who filmed the interviews, forwarded the DVDs to Illinois legislators in hopes of convincing them to restore the cuts that will end services for 600 Recovery Point consumers and 900 other people who depend on C4 services.

"Nearly all were homeless when they began services at C4; many had repeated hospitalizations in psychiatric institutions or were incarcerated," Cobbs wrote in a letter that accompanied the DVDs.

"Unless funding of the human service cuts is restored, many of the people whose voices you will hear will be among the 1,200 men and women now receiving C4 services who will have nowhere to go except the Emergency Room of John Stroger Hospital. "