Beyond Do No Harm
Resource Documents
Below are a few of the documents and principles that we have written and compiled for the Beyond Do No Harm network, as well as some from our partners. We hope that you find them helpful in your work, and encourage you to discuss these resources with the health care workers around you!
If you are able to donate to help us continue to create these resources, particularly if you are part of an institution, you can do so by heading to our Paypal donation link and writing "Beyond Do No Harm" in the "add a note to your donation" field!
Beyond Do No Harm Principles
This document was developed by a group of health care providers, public health workers, impacted community members, and organizers working across racial, gender, reproductive, migrant and disability justice, drug policy, sex worker, and anti-HIV criminalization movements to inspire a re-commitment to the ethical values of health care provision and principles of public health.
Beyond Do No Harm Discussion Guide
This guide was created to help health care providers, nurses, midwives, doulas, hospital and clinic staff, public health, social work and allied health workers, organizers, researchers, students and people curious or concerned about the criminalization in the context of access to health care, to explore and reflect on the Beyond Do No Harm principles, and to inspire collective action to prevent and interrupt criminalization of people seeking care.
The guide offers prompts for self-reflection, study groups, organizing and advocacy collectives, and to spark conversation within organizing communities.
Beyond Do No Harm Brief: We Must Fight In Solidarity With Trans Youth
This brief is intended to help organizers working to stop the violence of surveillance, policing, and punishment and advance racial, reproductive, gender, LGBTQ, migrant, and disability justice to:
make links between criminalization of care for trans youth across all of our struggles;
understand how we can join the fight to challenge criminalization of trans health care;
be of support to folks seeking and offering gender-affirming care; and
connect the criminalization of gender-affirming health care to broader calls to defund police, decriminalize, and divest from surveillance, policing, and punishment.
We hope that this brief will empower you with practical strategies to fight in solidarity with trans youth. This fight belongs to all of us.
Beyond Do No Harm Brief: Abortion Criminalization
The expanding surveillance and criminalization of mutual aid, self-managed care, and bodily autonomy, and the growing attempts to criminalize pregnant people, parents, and health care providers have far-reaching ramifications beyond abortion criminalization that require us to join together to collectively resist!
Hundreds of restrictive bills have been proposed, many passed, including the Texas law (SB8) that not only bans abortion after six weeks, but deputizes civilians to police each other’s reproductive decisions. Such laws are just the latest examples in a long history of criminalizing bodily autonomy, especially for Black, Indigenous, migrant, disabled, queer, and trans people, and people with low incomes who will experience the harshest impacts of anti-abortion legislation.
This brief offers an analysis of how our movements are connected, and how to push back against a widening web of criminalization.
**For external resources on pregnancy justice and criminalization, check out If/When/How: CAPTA Reporting Requirements for Medical Professionals, Pregnancy Justice: Confronting Pregnancy Criminalization Guide, or the Patient Forward: Abortion Ban Messaging Guide.
Beyond Do No Harm Resources: 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 and live into their commitment to provide care and to do no harm. 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? Click here to learn more and download the resources.
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. We’ve curated a short collection of examples of health care workers and groups who have fought back – and continue to fight back – within and against carceral facilities. Our hope is that these examples might provide inspiration for health care workers and move them to similar action.
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