From police-based wellness checks to community care

Come learn from peers, health care workers and community activists about why alternatives to police-based wellness checks are needed, what alternatives exist and what steps are being taken in your community.

We we will have speakers with direct experience with police-based wellness checks and there will be opportunities to get involved in your community.

Join the program! This event centers the voices of BIPOC community members and folks with lived experience. The Alternatives to Wellness Checks group is a subgroup of the Defund 604 Network organizing unceded territories of the x?m??k??y?m (Musqueam), Skwxwu7mesh (Squamish), s?l?ílw?ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh), k?ik?????m (Kwikwetlem), Qw’?ntl’en (Kwantlen), Q’e’yc’ey (Katzie), qiqéyt (Quay Quayt) and Stó:l? peoples. Our goal is to engage community, share knowledge, deprofessionalize skills and establish alternative mental health crises responses to police-based wellness checks. You can find our recommendations doc and review of alternative models at https://linktr.ee/DefundNetwork.

Watch us on https://www.youtube.com/c/defund604network.

ACCESS INFO: The event will be streamed on the Defund Network’s youtube channel.

There will be a DTES in-person option, and a breakout room for ASL interpretation. Email wellnesschecks@defund604.com for the ASL zoom link, info on the DTES in-person option or with other questions.