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Thank you!!

Xhopakelxhit

Delilah Gregg, VANDU & WAHRS

Shireen, Care Not Cops

Francis Arevalo

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Resource list (not exhaustive)

Email: wellnesschecks@defund604.com

Defund 604 linktree: https://linktr.ee/DefundNetwork

Archived teach-ins: https://www.youtube.com/c/defund604network

2020 already a particularly deadly year for people killed in police encounters�https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/fatalpoliceencounters/

People with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence — not perpetrators�https://globalnews.ca/news/7091702/mental-illness-violence-police/

Health Justice BC �https://www.healthjustice.ca/our-work

MH First Oakland�https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland

Project LETS: Managing a Mental Health Emergency�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpGOhGrLn8

The Fireweed Collective: How to Start A Support Team, with presenter Elliot Fukui�https://vimeo.com/showcase/fireweedcollective

Project BEAM�https://www.beam.community/black-healing-justice-project

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BC Mental Health Act in Plain Language�https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/heath-care-partners/colleges-board-and-commissions/mental-health-review-board/mha_plain.pdf

We Do This ‘Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba�https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha�https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/C/Care-Work

The Revolution will not Be Funded: Beyond the NonProfit Industrial Complex, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence�https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-revolution-will-not-be-funded

Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting by Bonnie Burstow https://www.amazon.ca/Psychiatry-Business-Madness-Epistemological-Accounting/dp/1137503

Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard�https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-black-lives

The Intersections of Disability Justice & Transformative Justice�https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKystkbHKQ

Social Workers Reject Calls for them to replace the Police�https://theappeal.org/social-workers-are-rejecting-calls-for-them-to-replace-police

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Mental Health Professionals are not the Solution to Racist Police Violence�https://uppingtheanti.org/blog/entry/mental-health-professionals-are-not-the-solution-to-racist-police-violence?fbclid=IwAR2HLUrJdLNHoQvpKichdeTDYryU1RYJ8zstCWJi0Jzd68_o_4zuainiUng

We Don’t Need Cops to Become Social Workers: We Need Peer Support + Community Response Networks �https://blog.usejournal.com/we-dont-need-cops-to-become-social-workers-we-need-peer-support-b8e6c4ffe87a

Psychiatry isn't the Perfect Alternative to Policing that some Claim�https://readpassage.com/psychiatry-isnt-the-perfect-alternative-to-policing-that-some-claim/

Abolition Must Include Psychiatry�https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/07/22/abolition-must-include-psychiatry/

Decarcerating Care: Taking the Police out of Mental Health Crisis Response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5O2kpQcyxs

When the U.S. Used Lobotomies to Create Gay Auschwitz�http://www.opportunityinstitute.org/blog/post/when-the-u-s-used-lobotomies-to-create-ga

Race and Gender in the Selection of Patients for Lobotomy�https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2016/12/race-gender-selection-patients-lobotomy.html

Nearly Half of Children in Crown Care are Medicated�https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/nearly-half-of-children-in-crown-care-are-medicated/article687480/

Rise in antipsychotic medication use in B.C. long-term care homes worries seniors' advocate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/anti-psychotics-b-c-care-homes-1.5973879

https://clasbc.net/our-work/cases/deemed-consent-law-under-the-mental-health-act/

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