Beyond Do No Harm Principles Session #2: Non-Punitive Mental Health Crisis Response

This session's topics focus on BDNH Principle #5, how health care providers can stop calling police on people with unmet mental health needs.

Speakers: Vinny Eng (Safer Together), Erica Woodland (National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network), Mimi Kim (Creative Interventions), Olivia Park (Do No Harm coalition) and Asantewaa Boykin (MH First).

Event Recording

Graphic Notes

Illustrated by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman

Image Description: Graphic Notes by Sara Yukimoto-Saltman from Beyond Do No Harm Session 2: Non-Punitive Mental Health Response including the names of panelists Olivia Park, Mimi Kim, Erica Woodland, Asantewaa Boykin, and Vinny Eng. Panel #1 image of a burning police hat, "Care work training deputizes caregivers as agents of the state 'soft policing'", Panel #2 plants rising up, Imaginative Openings towards Abolition - honor self-determination, expands what it means to be well, getting comfy not having the answers, act from an understanding we have more power than we think." Panel #3. waves of quotes, "It's about time for revolution... the tides are rising... when songs of solidarity drowned out the sounds of police cars... its time" - Asantewaa; "Take that imagination and translate it into reality because something better is possible when we care for one another in community" - Vinny Eng.

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