Empathy Riot

**training alert** 🚨
Islam+Muslims+Challenging Islamophobia in Mental Health Settings-Fri 11/11 on Zoom 10am-12pm Pacific time. Reduced fee for bipoc folks. Register at drhixson.com

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“Patient attempted su***de because they can't afford their rent anymore. The system is convincing me their behavior was due to their depression, impulsivity, personality disorder & unhealthy coping mechanism.

We are too afraid to mention capitalism, and housing crisis.” - Dr.

LET’S BECOME UNAFRAID.

We can’t continue to practice medicine how we used to. Patients don’t exist in isolation; they exist as part of a social context. Providing effective care to patients means taking into account that context.

Let’s become unafraid to name and to dismantle the social and economic systems and policies that adversely impact the health of our patients.

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Tomorrow, July 12 at 5 PM ET: Join us for this month's Mental Health Practice Space. This is a monthly 2-hour, virtual space for organizers and groups envisioning, designing, and implementing non-police mental health crisis response programs. These sessions are not recorded. ASL, Spanish interpretation, and live captioning will be provided.

As a reminder, this is an abolitionist space. This is NOT a space for law enforcement or people or organizations engaged in police training or mental health crisis response models that involve police in any way. In this space we do not support forced medical treatment and psychiatric incarceration as a carceral and punitive response to mental health needs.

Register at:
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/practice-space

It’s been a while since we’ve posted but how about how this is our whole job as radical providers! 🤔🤔🤔🤔 with
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Brief Culturally Specific Counseling for Folks Impacted by COVID-19.

This project is intended to serve Multnomah County residents who are impacted by COVID-19 and would benefit from brief counseling. There is a culturally specific element to this program-eg, a person who identifies with a cultural community related to ability/disability, race, gender, language currently qualify.

If you have a client or someone caring for your client who lives in Multnomah County who meets the following criteria, they can call our Multnomah County Call Center Referral Line at 503.988.6388. A LWNW counselor should be calling them back within 48 hours.

Lifeworks Cares Criteria:
-Resident of Multnomah County
-Impacted by COVID-19
-Does not require a higher level of care
-Has the ability to participate in telehealth (phone or web-based video)
-Interested in brief counseling services
-No immediate safety concerns (SI, HI)

Please share and sign this petition demanding that Kaiser Permanente halt the decision to restructure the Gender Pathways Clinic and stop the effort to unnecessarily layoff highly qualified gender affirming Mental Health specialists!

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/kaisersupporttranshealth

Link to petition in profile.

Turning Towards Each Other & Embracing the Gifts of Conflict for Social Change Jovida Ross & Weyam Ghadbian

Alternatives to Policing Based in Disability Justice The main part divides into: Cripping Abolition, Guiding Principles Based on Disability Justice, and Reforms to Oppose. Click the section title below to access each part or use the menu bar. Crippin…

Pods and Podmapping We encourage you to attend this webinar with your pod!