We the People of Detroit::Community Research Collective

We the People of Detroit Community Research Collective (WPD CRC) is a collaboration between community activists, academics, researchers and designers. Our research is produced with and for the citizens of Detroit. This research has been used in a wide range of settings, from community organizing to legal and legislative work. We hope that our work will be of further use to Detroiters in their efforts to build a more democratic city.,

Michigan Welfare Rights Organization

The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO) is a state chapter of the National Welfare Rights Union that advocates for public assistance recipients and low-income people. The union publicizes stories in the media about water shutoffs, housing, and other issues related to low income in Michigan.

People’s Water Board Coalition

Water is life. The People’s Water Board advocates for access, protection, and conservation of water. We believe all people should have access to clean, safe, accessible and affordable water and sanitation. Water is a human right and part of the commons that should be held in the public trust free of privatization. We work with partners and allies to promote awareness of these issues and the interconnectedness of all people and resources.

Critical Resistance / Oakland Power Projects

The Oakland Power Projects (OPP) builds the capacity for Oakland residents to reject police and policing as the default response to harm and to highlight or create alternatives that actually work by identifying current harms, amplifying existing resources, and developing new practices that do not rely on policing solutions.

The “Know Your Options: Chronic Health” workshop is designed to increase people’s understanding of how policing, incarceration and gentrification drive health inequalities manifest as chronic illnesses and to empower folks who live with them to access the care they need with minimal contact with law enforcement. The workshop ends with the problem of substance use and specific training on responding to and reversing drug overdoses.

WhiteCoats4BlackLives

WhiteCoats4BlackLives is a medical student-run organization born out of the National White Coat Die-In demonstrations that took place on December 10, 2014. Our mission is to dismantle racism in medicine and promote the health, well-being, and self-determination of people of color.

UCSF Climate Psychiatry Working Group

Climate change has profound, yet under-recognized and under-researched effects on mental health and delivery of care. The impact of climate change intersects with and compounds crises in homelessness, immigration, and other forms of population displacement. The UCSF Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force’s mission is to foster awareness of the climate crisis and its wider ecological and psychosocial reverberations, not only within our department, but across campus, the UC system, and our community partners. In the face of mounting crises and resource constraints, we are committed to preserving the benefits of the psychiatric milestones of the 20th century, while applying scientifically and clinically valid climate research and knowledge to transform mental health care to properly respond to the climate crisis of the 21st century. The task force will also focus on finding strategies to incorporate our efforts on this front into all of our missions: research, education, patient care, and public service.