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Join CLASP for a quarterly learning series focused on decolonizing mental health care; i.e., not relying entirely on the biomedical model, and emphasizing the importance of healing-centered care. Each quarter, we will host a conversation with mental health experts about the colonization of mental health systems, the key frameworks required to decolonize mental health, programs that are healing-centered frameworks into action, and how public policy can support these movements.
April 13: How the Transformative Justice and Healing Justice Movements Inform How We Must Approach Mental Health Systems
The first session in our series will focus on transformative justice and healing justice: two key frameworks that underpin our understanding of how to decolonize mental health systems. In this conversation, we will provide insights into both movements, speak to leaders in the movement around transformative mental health, and discuss why understanding cross-movement organizing is critical to transforming mental health systems and policies.
Speakers:
- Jessie Roth (she/her); Director, Institute for the Development of the Human Arts (IDHA)
- Noah Gokul (they/them); Program Coordinator, Institute for the Development of Human Arts
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This series is part of the healing-centered liberation policy framework we launched in 2020. Healing-centered liberation policy thinks beyond what is and demands what should be. It requires new decision-making structures, acknowledges failed and abandoned policies, and recognizes both historical harms and ongoing discrimination. Because our current mental health system is steeped in historical and structural racism, we must reimagine how public policy can respond to inequity beyond our existing systems.
Register now to continue receiving updates on the rest of the series:
- May: Confronting the Medical-Industrial Complex
- September: Healing-Centered Frameworks in Practice
- December: Policies to Decolonize Mental Health
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