“Treatment that resembles us”: How the behavioral TMH redefines the mental health in Chicago “
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 5:29 pm
The original dream of Tytannie Harris was to become a sports broadcaster. Her specialization in the press and education soon turned to social work, reluctantly at the time, but the change turned into divine redirect.
She grew up in the nursery system, she never imagined that she would become a therapist, not to mention the construction of an organization, in part due to the lack of representation in this field. “I didn't have the processors like me,” she says. “So I needed him.”
Today, Tytannie is the processor that was once needed – the founder and the power behind it Behavioral services (TMH)The prosperous mental health organization, which provides a care that focuses on healing and culturally related to societies that lack resources in Chicago.
Growth through grays and community support
During the first three years, Tytannie TMH ran alone. One woman, all hats. “I realized that I could not be insight and make the vision speak myself.” She showed a team. The goal of the Vision Council turned into a “one -process reunification” into six from April of the same year.
TMH now offers yoga treatment, audio therapy, mother and daughter workshops, new mother's support groups, teenage workshops, all of which are designed through a lens that focuses on healing. This work is supported by Blue Cross and Blueshield from Illinois. Most of the team lives in the same societies they serve. They meet with customers in homes, helping living facilities, schools, and libraries. Access is wide, and the effect is real.
Later in 2020, just four years after her work, a friend sent her a request to the small Chicago Sky business camp. I applied the day before the deadline, and entered.
That group changed everything.
“Before, I did not think about the fact that I was a business owner,” she says. “I was just doing.”
The boot camp helped her in building infrastructure and driving – an hour, operations, and marketing – and give it access to financing and mentors. The first stadium competition was also held at all during the regiment. During the same year, her grandmother passed.
In honor of her grandmother, Annie Harries's grant launched a gift, which now provides funding and consulting to other businessmen. This year, the program obtained an unknown donation of $ 15,000 and turned it into five grants 5 thousand dollars to the black -owned wellness companies.
While Tytannie realizes the value of money and granting money, it emphasizes the importance of incubators such as the small business camp. Feeling of vision and cultivation of a business owners is an invaluable experience. It includes its way of pushing it forward guidance, sharing resources, and encouraging entrepreneurs to continue.
Its advice to all business owners, ambitious and veteran: Be clear in “Why”. Building a team. Acquiring work skills. And I know that there is strength in the trip.
From nursing to a complete circle
Her journey to treatment was not on theory, as she lived an experiment. Her childhood leaders who spent in a transitional house and the group houses group to a distinctive relationship with Ra called TINA. This connection planted the seeds.
Years later, she is building a house in honor of Tina: Tina's house, a transitional living place (TLP) for young women between the ages of 18 and 24 who suffer from custody or aging care from the incubating care system while facing the lack of housing. It is a complete circle-Tytannie has once relied on such services, and it is now creating a contemporary version of it.
Everything will be implemented in the TINA home in the company: cases management, community support, individual therapy, job function, gardening, after care, and more. The goal is a path to permanent housing, sustainable healing, and unique futures for every young woman.
Tmh Mancave: healing for men and black children
But Tytannie did not stop there. She saw what black men are often left out of mental health conversation after watching her father's struggles.
Therefore, TMH MANCAVE, a non -profit institution devoted to the mental wellness of men and black children. It is led by a male council, and it provides a monthly group treatment, healing circles, boxing and mental health sessions, workshops around sadness, armed violence, and emotional organization-all free.
“We give men their own space. Not just an angle at home – a full house,” explains Titani.
The legacy of healing, a vision for the future
Tytannie goals are clear and do not waste it that they live daily:
Open 4-5 TLP under Tina's house by 2030
Expanding the TMH MANCAVE range throughout the city
Launching more roots of community healing initiatives
Helping other black processors in building and preserving special practices
For Tytannie Harris, treatment is not just a profession – it's an invitation. And TMH is not just a job. It is the lifeblood.
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