Trilogy’s Public Policy Platform

Through our public policy work, Trilogy seeks to uplift the experiences of our clients and our staff, address differences in access and outcomes, and work collaboratively with partners and stakeholders to advance healthcare access.  Our public policy platform consists of four pillars: 

1. Protect Public Benefits. Advocate for access to public benefits for healthcare, food, income, and housing. Work to reduce harm of the federal budget reconciliation bill, advocate against further changes, and support expanding access to benefits.
2. Expand Safe & Accessible Housing. Advocate for accessible and affordable housing and a comprehensive and compassionate emergency housing system.
3. Comprehensive Crisis Care. Advocate for fully establishing a mental health crisis continuum of services in Chicago through strategies including funding, program development, and strong oversight. Promote crisis services as an avenue to reducing entanglement with the criminal court system. 
4. Expand the Workforce. Expand and diversify the behavioral health workforce by advocating for investments that increase pay equity, address student loan burden, and create easier pathways across all professions in the sector. 

As part of this work, Trilogy monitors, educates and advances legislation in the Illinois General Assembly. The legislation we follow relates to mental health and substance use services and treatment generally, and particularly focuses on protecting public benefits that support access to mental health and substance use treatment, expanding access to safe and accessibility housing, advancing mental health crisis care that is separate from the criminal court system, and promoting workforce development across the sector. Check out the bills we are tracking for the Spring 2026 session!

Want to connect about our public policy work? Reach out to Jen McGowan-Tomke, VP of Policy & Health Equity at [email protected].