Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response Panel

Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response Panel - May 21, 2026 A virtual panel discussion on the joint report by Human Rights Watch, the Center for Racial and Disability Justice at UCLA School of Law, and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest: "Self-Determination is the Pathway to Liberation": Alternative Mental Health Crisis Response in the United States. Panelists discuss what rights-respecting, non-police crisis response looks like in practice, the challenges these programs face, and what it will take to sustain and expand them. Moderator: Jennifer Mathis, Deputy Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Panelists: Cat Brooks, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Anti-Police-Terror Project (Mental Health First); Travers Kurr, Manager of Behavioral Health Programs, New Orleans Health Department (Mobile Crisis Intervention Unit); Christina Sparrock, Alternative Crisis Response Researcher, Disability Justice Program, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; William Juhn, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Justice Program, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest; Jordyn Jensen, Community Engagement and Communications Manager, Center for Racial and Disability Justice, UCLA School of Law Read the report: https://www.crdjustice.org/crisis-res... Learn more about the panel: https://www.crdjustice.org/event-deta... CART captioning and ASL interpretation included.