{"id":16379,"date":"2015-05-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/tapia-is-first-black-woman-to-head-cook-county-jail\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:09:58","slug":"tapia-is-first-black-woman-to-head-cook-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/tapia-is-first-black-woman-to-head-cook-county-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapia is first Black woman to head Cook County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation focuses on mental health during Mental Health Awareness Week, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Tuesday, May, 19 clinical psychologist Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia will be the new executive director of the Cook County Jail. Tapia testified in front of the city council last year when she warned Mayor Emanuel and other city leaders to not close mental health clinics as the jail was becoming the \u201cdumping ground\u201d for patients who needed assistance. Tapia\u2019s advice was ignored and six mental health clinics were axed by the city.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>05\/21\/2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagocrusader.com\/chicago\/news-detail.aspx?cityID=1&amp;typeID=1&amp;newsid=8604\" target=\"_blank\">Link to Source<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the nation focuses on mental health during Mental Health Awareness Week, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Tuesday, May, 19 clinical psychologist Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia will be the &#8230; <a title=\"Tapia is first Black woman to head Cook County Jail\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/tapia-is-first-black-woman-to-head-cook-county-jail\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tapia is first Black woman to head Cook County Jail\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-16379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tapia is first Black woman to head Cook County Jail<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tapia is first Black woman to head Cook County Jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As the nation focuses on mental health during Mental Health Awareness Week, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Tuesday, May, 19 clinical psychologist Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia will be the ... 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