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Philly Rallies for Non-Police Mobile Crisis Response, Demands More Funding

March 16, 2022
On Tuesday, March 15th around 75 people people took the sidewalk at 11th and Market to rally for non-police mobile crisis responses to mental health...
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Organizations and Elected Officials Call for Mobile Crisis Expansion

March 15, 2022
We deserve trauma informed services and alternatives to policing which so often harms and traumatizes members of our communities. In advance of our...
a pink and blue graphic shows Walter Wallace Jr and his mother with the text "Treatment Not Trauma" and "Rally & Press Conference March 15 11:45-1 11th & Market' and 'Tell Commissioner Bowen we need fully funned mobile crisis response in Philly'

March 15th: Rally With Us for Non-Police Responses to Mental Health Crises

March 9, 2022
Next Tuesday, March 15th, join us to tell Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) Commissioner Dr. Jill Bowen...
A photo shows a zoom meeting of a DBHIDS briefing on mobile crisis response

Why We Are Fighting for Mobile Crisis Expansion in the Philly City Budget

March 7, 2022
Imagine this: you’re walking down a sidewalk, but suddenly you trip and fall to the ground. Hard. You feel a sharp, horrible pain and notice the...
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When We Fight We Win: New Political Maps Increase Community Power

March 3, 2022
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC) released their final redrawn political maps on February 4, 2022. Every ten years, the LRC–made up of...