You are warmly invited to "Community Crisis Response: A Reflection & Praxis Meeting about the Current Conditions, a virtual gathering for groups and organizations building and implementing community-based non-carceral responses to mental health crises and unmet mental health needs hosted by Interrupting Criminalization and Just Practice taking place November 5th from 11 AM to 6 PM ET / 8 AM to 3 PM PT.

Emerging from the overlapping work of One Million Experiments, the Building Coordinated Crisis Response Learning Space, and the Beyond Do No Harm Network, this gathering will create space for candid conversations  about where and how community-based crisis response programs have rooted, grown, faltered, and flourished since the 2020 uprisings demanding divestment from policing and investment in community-based violence prevention and intervention programs. We'll explore what we have learned over the past 5 years, unpack the tensions and thorny issues that have arisen, including questions of scale and engagement with the state, share strategies and successes, name obstacles we have faced and overcome, and harvest the seeds and compost of our experiments to bring forward into the next season of our work. And, we'll examine the critical role of community crisis response programs under repressive, authoritarian, and fascist conditions, particularly in light of executive orders and heightened policing targeting unhoused, disabled, migrant, and trans and queer communities.

To register for the convening, please complete the encrypted form linked at the button below.

We strongly encourage you to listen to the latest season of One Million Experiments podcast which focuses on community crisis response programs, before the convening!