See you this Friday for the second webinar in our series #WeTakeCareofUs: Community Crisis Response! We’re delighted to host our friends Elizeth Virrueta and Anthony Robles from the Youth Justice Coalition, who’ll be talking to us about their inspiring and innovative model, CAT-911: Community Alternatives to 911. Come learn how they are training teams in the community to respond to neighborhood emergencies without calling 911, including sexual assault, domestic violence, inter-neighborhood conflict, substance abuse and overdose, wounds and injuries requiring emergency medical care, mental health crises, and police violence.

About the Series

Each week we will showcase an innovative model from across the state of how communities are stepping up to address crises themselves without relying on the police.

Our six-week series will lift up alternative responses to mental health crisis, intercommunal violence, substance abuse, and intimate partner violence. These approaches center healing and transformative justice and prove that we don’t need cops when we have community. #WeTakeCareOfUs

May is #mentalhealthmonth, and we know that alternatives to the police for mental health crisis are more important than ever. Up to 50% of the people killed by law enforcement are in the middle of a mental health crisis. Law enforcement agencies are not equipped to handle these calls, they don’t have adequate training and many of them don’t want the job. These result in unnecessary deaths, trauma and pain. And those who are killed disproportionately Black.

Come learn the tools you will need to bring these innovative models to your community!
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