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Dear Friend,

IDHA's Fall 2022-Spring 2023 virtual training series Crossroads of Crisis: Dreams & Strategies for Collective Care kicks off this weekend! Are you registered?

This week is the final opportunity to enroll in the full series, which will explore how to reimagine the crisis continuum – interrogating what crisis is, where it comes from, how to respond to it with curiosity and compassion, and the role of providers and communities. Details for the first class on November 13, The Crisis Industry, are below.

Continuing education credits are now available for all eight classes! Enroll in the full series to receive 24 complementary CE credits at the general or supporter rate (click here for more information). All classes will be recorded and shared after alongside a resource list and transcripts; captioning and ASL interpretation will be provided.

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The Crisis Industry: How Capitalism, Cops, and Coercion Shape Care Today

Sunday, November 13, 12-3 pm EST

The rollout of “988" has been accompanied by an explosion of attention and criticism regarding the state of crisis care today. Living in times of near-constant political and social crisis, we ask: What kind of care is available to individuals and communities? What does it look like to demand “better” care, and how do we do it?

This session will explore the current state of crisis services, tracing the ways that capitalism, carceral logics, and coercive interventions have created a minefield for people attempting to access care. Faculty will explore how structural abandonment has created crisis in individuals and communities, and the ways the systemic response reifies oppression. After developing an understanding of the inner workings and politics of the crisis industry, participants will learn to navigate the current system and create community support strategies to get their needs met in the current climate.

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Faculty

Jess Stohlmann-Rainey (she/her) is a mad, fat, queer, feminist, care and death worker. She has focused her career on creating pathways to intersectional, justice-based, emotional support for marginalized communities; most notably working across the full continuum of suicide support services from prevention to crisis and postvention and teaching in the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology. She has particular interest in epistemology, capitalism, and ethics in the context of suicidology, mad studies, crisis care, and death work. Jess centers her lived expertise as an ex-patient, voice-hearer, and suicide attempt survivor in her work. She collaborates on a podcast called Suicide ‘n’ Stuff and held the Lived Experience seat on Colorado’s Suicide Prevention Commission from 2018-2021.
Kelechi Ubozoh is a Nigerian-American writer and mental health consultant with over a decade of experience working in the California mental health system in the areas of research and advocacy, community engagement, suicide prevention, and peer support. Her story of surviving a suicide attempt is featured in The S Word documentary, O, The Oprah Magazine and CBS This Morning with Gayle King. She has spent the last two years facilitating healing-centered spaces for BIPOC employees. Her book with LD Green, We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health, elevates marginalized voices of lived experience who have endured psychiatric mistreatment is featured in the curriculum at Boston University.
     

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UPCOMING EVENTS IN THE IDHA COMMUNITY

Mad Poetry and Art: A Conversation with Stephanie Heit & Chanika Svetvilas
November 14, 7-8:30 pm EST

Crossroads of Crisis: Dreams & Strategies for Collective Care
November 13, December 11, January 15, February 19, March 12, April 16, May 7, June 4
(virtual class series)

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