Calling all Oakland and Sacramento Mental Health clinicians, community healers, transformative justice practitioners, and those directly impacted by the criminalization of Mental Health Crisis!

Mental Health First (MH First) is holding an onboarding orientation training on zoom from 10am to 5pm February 27th for BIPOC who want to get involved in this groundbreaking program to destigmatize and decriminalize crisis response. Register today at bit.ly/MHFirst-Feb27 !

The goal of APTP's Mental Health First program is to respond to mental health crises including, but not limited to, psychiatric emergencies, substance use support, and domestic violence situations.

Our purpose is to interrupt and eliminate the need for law enforcement in mental health crisis first response by providing mobile peer support, de-escalation assistance, and non-punitive and life-affirming interventions, therefore decriminalizing emotional and psychological crises and decreasing the stigma and silence around mental health, substance use, and domestic violence, while also addressing their root causes: white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism.

This training is only open to Black, Brown, and Indigenous community members, we will schedule additional trainings for other community members in the future.

NOTE: you do not have to be a clinician to take this training. MHFirst considers dealing with your own and your family's struggle with mental health as critical experience that is crucial to grounding the program in community and making sure it is led by those directly impacted.

For questions, please contact rebeccaruiz510@gmail.com.