Late last month, Gov. Bruce Rauner announced the appointment of Colette Lueck, an Oak Park village trustee, as chair of the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership. Lueck recently retired as the managing director of the partnership, which was formed out of the Children’s Mental Health Act of 2003.
According to the organization’s website, the partnership was developed “to build a comprehensive, coordinated Children’s Mental Health System” to replace a system that, at the time, was considered “highly fragmented, limited in scope, under-resourced and alarmingly inadequate in providing a full range of treatment services.”
Lueck was appointed to the Oak Park village board in 2008 and elected outright in 2009 and again in 2013. In addition to her time on the board, Lueck has served as chair of the Oak Park and River Forest High School PTO Liaison Program, chair of the Oak Park Plan Commission and a member of the District 97 Finance Work Group, among other volunteer functions.
Lueck was named Oak Park’s “Volunteer of the Year” in 2006 for her outstanding community service.
In June, according to a Wednesday Journal report, Lueck announced that she would not seek a third term on the village board when her seat is up in 2017.
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