Full Text of SR0224 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate support | 3 | | Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, John Marshall Law School, | 4 | | Northern Illinois University College of Law, University of | 5 | | Chicago Law School, Southern Illinois University School of Law, | 6 | | Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University College of Law, | 7 | | Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and University of | 8 | | Illinois College of Law and their pledge to improve the | 9 | | well-being and mental health of their campuses and to better | 10 | | address mental health issues among lawyers, starting with law | 11 | | students; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Improving wellness and advancing legal education | 13 | | are synchronized interests; addressing these issues within the | 14 | | State's communities will result in happier and healthier | 15 | | individuals and better students and contributing members of the | 16 | | legal profession; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The legal profession has a lengthy history of | 18 | | substance abuse and often penalizes individuals seeking help; | 19 | | poor student or practitioner health is not a necessary | 20 | | byproduct of a rigorous legal education and needs to be treated | 21 | | as the scourge of the profession that it is; students left | 22 | | behind are not due to a failure of personal strength but are | 23 | | testaments to the collective failure to uplift one another and |
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| 1 | | raise the standards of the legal trade; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Law school administrations are joining efforts to | 3 | | facilitate well-being and recognize mental health issues, to | 4 | | listen to the concerns of the students and be responsive to | 5 | | their well-being and mental health struggles, and to build a | 6 | | school atmosphere where well-being and mental health is | 7 | | recognized as an immediate issue which deserves attention and | 8 | | resolution; therefore, be it
| 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 10 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize the need | 11 | | to end the stigma surrounding mental health, stand in support | 12 | | of the efforts by the law schools of our State to provide | 13 | | better access to care, and urge them to continue in their | 14 | | efforts to address this issue; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to Richard C. Minott, President of Northwestern | 17 | | Pritzker School of Law, Hannah G. Johnson, President of John | 18 | | Marshall Law School, Victor Zamora, President of Northern | 19 | | Illinois University College of Law, Mihai F. Chitulescu, | 20 | | President of University of Chicago Law School, Jacob Welch, | 21 | | President of Southern Illinois University School of Law, Dawn | 22 | | Peacock, President of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Ashlee | 23 | | Germany, President of DePaul University College of Law, Brian |
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| 1 | | P. Gibbons, President of Loyola University Chicago School of | 2 | | Law, and Ashley G. Kennedy, President of University of Illinois | 3 | | College of Law as an expression of our esteem and respect.
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