NYAPRS Note: Last evening, NYAPRS joined with Surviving Race and Community Access to co sponsor “Alternatives to Coercion: Peer Street Outreach and Support in NYC and Beyond!” that was dedicated to the memory of Howie the Harp and featured presentations from an extraordinary array of national experts on how approaches grounded in the ‘pure’ principles of peer support and human rights are helping people in distress without the use of any coercion. See the recorded version at https://youtu.be/j0cV3jXsn5Y!
In that same spirit, NYAPRS is partnering with Community Access and the College for Behavioral Health Leadership to host a very timely webinar on June 9th from 1:00-2:00 pm that will look at one of the nation’s first evidence-based alternative to acute hospitalization for people experiencing psychiatric crises, Soteria Houses (https://tinyurl.com/m9asus5j). This event will bring together pioneers in the development and current operation of Soteria Houses in the US and Israel (see below for details).
This event is especially timely, as it directly follows the publishing of the New York Times blockbuster piece “Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/magazine/antipsychotic-medications-mental-health.html that was authored by Daniel Bergner, a member of our panel.
Reminder: this webinar will take place on June 9th, from 1-2pm EST.
See below for details and register here or https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0b9_sSwQQ8ecqyTX1Pc6lQ today!
