Get an inside look at an ongoing campaign in Boston to launch non-police, non-carceral, community-based mental health crisis response model.

In this BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series event, two of the campaign’s organizers – Husain Rizvi and Emi Takinami (MSW’20), a BU School of Social Work alum – will discuss the history of the campaign within the greater context of the abolition movement in Boston.  They will share details about the proposed non-police, non-carceral, community-based model they are working on, as well as the current status of the campaign and how social workers and others in the Greater Boston area can  support it.

1 Massachusetts CE credit will be available to social workers licensed in the U. S. upon successful completion of a post-event quiz. If you wish to receive CE credits, please provide your license number in the registration form.

Featured Speakers: 

Husain Rizvi (they/them) is the director for the Pathways to Change Program and co-director for the Summer Leadership Program at The City School, a youth organizing and leadership development organization that focuses on supporting Black and brown working class youth in Boston bydeveloping young people’s leadership through popular education, collective care and transformative justice, political education, and organizing 101. They are a steering committee member of the Mental Health Crisis Response campaign where they support young people in organizing.

Emy Takinami (she/her) is the racial justice policy and community engagement manager at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University. As a macro social worker and community organizer, she is committed to building and fostering grassroots power toward community-led social change. She is a steering committee member of Boston Liberation Health (BLH), a group of social workers dedicated to understanding and practicing social work using the Liberation Health framework which is a model of radical mental health practice that helps individuals identify and analyze the sociopolitical factors affecting our lives and take action to change our external world. Through her work with BLH, and in partnership with The City School, she also serves as a steering committee member of Boston's Mental Health Crisis Response campaign, organizing for non-police, non-carceral, community-based mental health crisis response for the City of Boston.

This event is part of the BUSSW Equity & Inclusion Speaker Series presented by BU School of Social Work’s Equity & Inclusion Committee. Please visit bu.edu/ssw/eiss for additional details, past event recordings and more.

Accessibility

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The webinar will be conducted using the online Zoom webinar platform. This webinar is open to all members of the BU community including alumni, students, faculty, staff and the public.