The primary purpose of this guide is to serve as a pragmatic tool for individuals and communities organizing and advocating for non-police mental health crisis responses, and to offer key considerations for what can be a complex, costly, and long-term intervention strategy.

What is a restorative conversation? How do we ground our conversations in seeing each other's humanity? Explore “A Restorative Conversation Toolkit” and learn about restorative justice values and principles, the goals and strategies of restorative conversations, and how to craft your own restorative questions. 

This is a curriculum for sexual assault service providers intended to accompany Interrupting Criminalization’s report Shrouded in Silence: Police Sexual Violence - What We Know and What We Can Do About It. Facilitators and participants are strongly encouraged to review the report before using any of the exercises in this curriculum.

This update to our June 2020 #DefundPolice toolkit reflects victories won across the country, key strategies deployed, some lessons learned - including tricks, tensions, and roadblocks along the way - and key questions communities are contending with in campaigns to defund police as we look forward to 2021.

In this session, we will explore the ‘Two Sides of Justice‘ curriculum by engaging in the activities and discussing how and where this curriculum could be implemented. We will discuss questions like: What is justice? How can we address violence in non-punitive ways? How do carceral systems impact people who cause harm and who have been harmed?

Defunding police is a survivor-led anti-violence strategy that stops police from looting resources survivors need to prevent, avoid, escape and heal from violence - and puts more money into violence prevention and interruption.

We hope that this guide will empower you to begin building a police-free future in your community and provide you with some strategies for ensuring this.

Criminalizing Survival includes curriculum units and activities that can be used for political education focused on the intersections between racialized gender-based violence and criminalization.

This curriculum unit is intended to help activists, advocates, organizers and community members to learn more about the criminalization of domestic violence survivors.