Vesper Moore's post, including this article by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu vehemently supported by community members:

' We need more peer support and community response networks. We need to put power back into the hands of the people. We need the people most impacted to not only give input but to run and be responsible for the inception of all system services. We need those who are marginalized to take the lead in each community not out of expectation or tokenization but humanization.

“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 '

https://medium.com/@stefkaufman/we-dont-need-cops-to-become-social-workers-we-need-peer-support-b8e6c4ffe87a

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2667570800186841&id=100008018411161

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' If this plan sounds skeletal, Gregory says that’s by design. ”It gets filled in appropriate to the region that we’re trying to reach,” she explains. “As we know, viruses, like racism, have different expressions in different regions, and that’s how the public health approach can be so incredibly appropriate for racism. Because we know that racism — just like a virus — doesn’t look the same in Philly as it does in L.A. It doesn’t express in the same way. And to address it, we need regionally appropriate interventions.”

But there is one consistent aspect of all of Gregory’s plans, regardless of region: that the work must be done with love and compassion. This means not only being able to sit face-to-face with a clinician and getting human-to-human contact, it also involves recognizing the humanity in medicine and health by telling and listening to personal stories, so others are able to put faces on an otherwise overwhelming systemic problem. '

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/racism-public-health-crisis-1014162

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