Watch the recording of this important community discussion, exploring how institutionalization has long operated as a tool of social control, disproportionately impacting Black and Brown communities, manifesting today in the expansion of involuntary commitment directives nationally. The work being done by the event organiser, the Institute for the Development of Human Arts is very relevant to the decarceration of people with dementia and older people in ‘care’ homes.

It was, without doubt, the best event I have attended in 15 years.

You can also find the recordings from the previous four discussions in this series:

• September 2020: Taking Policing Out of Mental Health Crisis Response
• March 2021: Challenging Criminalization and Control in Mental Health
• September 2021: Laying the Foundations for Liberated Practice
• March 2022: Community-Based Healing Alternatives and How to Build Them
• October 2022: The Evolution of Mental Health Surveillance

Links and Resources
IDHA have compiled all of the resources shared by their panelists and participants from all six Decarcerating Care events here: Decarcerating Care: Reading and Resource List.

Look here for further reading on the panelists’ organizations and programs, as well as further reading at the intersections of police violence and disability, community-based alternatives, and non-carceral ways to support one another. You can also find a regularly updated library of relevant resources on IDHA’s website here.