We Don’t Need Cops to Become Social Workers: We Need Peer Support + Community Response Networks
Updated: Sep 3, 2020
“Replace the cops with mental health workers!” is a really well-intentioned statement, but the current mental health system is also a white-dominated, violent, coercive, and unaccountable structure that disproportionately harms people of color.” — Morgan M. Page
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