This provides and overview on and recommendations for improving training for law enforcement in addressing mental health crisis calls.
NAMI: Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
People with mental illness deserve help, not handcuffs. Yet people with mental illness are overrepresented in our nation’s jails and prisons. We need to reduce criminal justice system involvement and increase investments in mental health care.
Drawing Out Stigma: My Story, My Journey
A project about mental health awareness and stigma from a multi-cultural and multi-generational lens made by the community for the community.
In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems
Through extensive research, documentation, and oral histories-Vanessa Jackson unpacks scientific racism, segregated hospitals, and the erasure of Black experiences in psych survivor movement (consumer, ex-patient, peers).
Issues of Race and Ethnicity in the Mental Health System and the Psychiatric Survivors Movement: A Collective Assessment
Issues of Race and Ethnicity is qualitative research study focused on how BIPOC mental health consumers navigate and experience racism within both the mental health system and the psychiatric survivors movement.