Don’t Be A Copagandist: Health Care Workers Edition
A guide for grassroots media, journalists, health care workers, advocates — and anyone! — for challenging copaganda when we talk about ICE/CBP, police, jail and prison officials, and criminalization in hospitals and health care spaces.
Mandated Reporting Harm Reduction: Balancing Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT)
A collaborative resource on harm reduction and navigating risk in mandated reporting. This tool outlines some of the most common questions practitioners and community-based groups encounter when navigating the realities of mandated reporting.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Reclaiming the Narrative: Decriminalizing Pregnancy Through Policy and Advocacy
In this zine and audio story, a patient advocate who was central to passing the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) discusses the limits of legislative interventions in securing access to abortion care, and the importance of challenging criminalization at any stage of pregnancy. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: A Question is an Interruption
In this zine and audio story, a medical student in California prevents security from being called on a patient's family member, emphasizing the importance of speaking up and asking questions. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Fighting Housing Injustice and Detention Through Medical Advocacy
In this zine and audio story, a primary care physician in New York shares a strategy she uses to advocate for patient care while organizing for housing equity and migrant justice. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: The Right to Dignity: Securing Compassionate Release for Incarcerated People
In this zine and audio story, a physician in Georgia utilizes compassionate release as a strategy to advance care for in-custody patients. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Is it a Rule or is it a Law?
In this zine and audio story, a resident physician in Florida discusses the importance of pushing back against cruel rules and policies in hospitals that impact care for incarcerated patients. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: When Healing Becomes Resistance: Interrupting HIV Criminalization
In this zine and audio story, an advocate and an attorney share an intimate story about the power of community and policy, and the role of health care providers in the movement to end HIV criminalization. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Listening, Resisting, Healing: HRNA's Fight Against Recriminalization in British Columbia
In this zine and audio story, a harm reduction nurse in Canada leads his community in a fight against Bill 34, which would re-criminalize public drug use. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: On the Consequences of Policing Patient Behavior in the Hospital
In this zine and audio story, a physician at a community health center challenges the policing of his patients by offering a harm reduction-based approach to care. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Firing a Patient
In this zine and audio story, a physician in Massachusetts prevents a patient from being dismissed from his practice by implementing a restorative justice process. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
Beyond Do No Harm Abolitionist Health Care “Back To School” Reading Guide
A “back to school” reading guide and resource list for people interested in learning more and supporting abolitionist health care workers and providers who are fighting criminalization of care.
Beyond Do No Harm Brief: Refusing Carceral Collaborations
Health care workers are placed in many situations where their loyalty to their patient is in conflict with their (purported) loyalty to the state. And while some legal protections are in place to protect health care workers who refuse to engage in these carceral collaborations, it is often unclear when and where a worker is protected.
Abolitionist Principles for Healthcare Workers
What does it mean when healthcare providers are part of systems that cause patients harm and actively undermine the respect, privacy, and care that patients seek?
Cops Out of Care
The vast majority of people involved in direct or indirect patient care came to this work hoping to help people. Yet, certain policies and common practices in health care settings make it difficult for healthcare workers to fulfill this purpose…
Beyond Do No Harm Discussion Guide
The guide offers prompts for self-reflection, study groups, organizing and advocacy collectives, and to spark conversation within organizing communities.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Nurse Midwife
In this zine and audio story, a nurse midwife helps a patient navigate family court and Child Protective Services so the patient can keep her child. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Medical Doctor and Transgender Patient
In this zine and audio story, a medical doctor talks with her transgender patient about navigating the medical system, and what medical providers can do to support transgender people. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Medical Student
In this animated video and audio story, a medical student discusses the heavy police presence at his teaching hospital, and how to handle escalated situations without cops. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.
BDNH Storytelling Project: Medical Doctor
In this animated video and audio story, a medical doctor fights for an incarcerated patient to get an abortion, through multiple stages of approval and bureaucracy. This story is part of the Beyond Do No Harm’s Storytelling Media Project.