This is a special session for those who cannot make the in-person meetings of the Working Group. Workers in the institutions of community mental health are especially invited, but all are welcome. Sign up here!

The institutions of community mental health are broken. Clients are captured by the institutional circuit, shuffled between supported housing, jail, hospital, day program, case management, clinic, homeless shelter, and the street. This fragmentation has made “continuity of care” a buzzword, placing hope in the technocratic expansion of surveillance, assessment, and measurement. In reality, workers are left holding the pieces, providing needed care outside our formal work roles and frequently ending up frustrated, dejected, and burnt out.

We are not alone. Though institutions are siloed, our shared work can be an occasion for solidarity. This Working Group will gather workers in many roles and contexts of care. United by our recognition of systemic failure and our desire to build something better, we aim to theorize our work, develop new approaches, and build capacity to put them into practice. We will draw on our own experience, contemporary scholarship, and historical precedents to resist the dehumanizing effects of the status quo and put forward alternatives.

The Working Group will be facilitated by Dr. Christopher Landry.

Suggested Pre-Read - “The Risk of Space: Toward a Treatment of Psychosis in the City” by Loren Dent and Matthew Oyer

TO JOIN THE MEETING ON 11/13:

Zoom Link: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/93350560724?pwd=1TnMHGLXQMgKApWp3C71o7FaoMSa38.1

• Meeting ID: 933 5056 0724

• Passcode: 4129