Toolkits & Resources

Decarcerating Mental Health Professions

“Decarcerating Mental Health Professions: A Quick Guide for Practitioners” is a collection of interviews, reflections, and quotes from mental health professionals on best practices to eliminate the need for law enforcement and national security in mental health spaces. Written and compiled by Nicole Nguyen, this guide accompanies “Political Psychiatry: Policing Mental Health beyond Guantánamo.”

Political Psychiatry: Policing Mental Health beyond Guantánamo

Drawing on disability justice activism and mad studies, “Political Psychiatry: Policing Mental Health beyond Guantánamo'“ examines the use of the mental health professions as a national security tool and the impact of these arrangements on practitioners and their clients. It also provides mental health professionals and community members with practical strategies to protect the safety and wellbeing of their clients, such as building resources useful for safety planning and studying the carceral histories of the mental health professions. 

Abolitionist v. Reforms Policy Tool

The goal of the “Abolitionist v. Reforms” policy tool is to help advocates, organizers, and community members discern between abolitionist v. reform policies, and think of potential pitfalls and whether their approaches would in any way undermine long-term goals of abolition, especially as they relate to the War on Terror.

Where Do We Go From Here? Resourcing Each Other Before, After, and During Violence and Tragedies

“Where do we Go From Here? Resourcing Each Other Before, After, and During Violence and Tragedies” was developed to support community to build grassroots power and engage in joint struggle and cross-communal relationships in the face of state or interpersonal violence. We created this guide to resource our communities in envisioning safety and healing without relying on prisons, police, or national security.