Reimagining Healing & Justice
April 14 at 3:00PM PT/6:00PM ET
POV’s YouTube Channel
ASL Interpreted
Panelists
Ericka Dixon, NYC Anti-Violence Project
Patti Giggans, Peace Over Violence
Heima Sritharan, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Tinisch Hollins, Californians for Safety and Justice
Moderator
Sanjana Nidugondi, NYC Anti-Violence Project
Communities at large are dedicating time and resources to explore and build alternatives to police and prisons, evolving what we define as justice and centering the experience of marginalized communities impacted by state sponsored violence.
This conversation aims to discuss divestment - pulling resources away from policing and prisons - and also investment - redirecting the majority of the massive police, prison, and military budgets at every level of domestic and sexual violence intervention and prevention programs to proven and transformative alternatives that increase safety and healing. This includes accessible comprehensive physical and mental healthcare, sexual abuse and sexual violence education and prevention, housing programs that help people stay in their homes and acquire safe housing, drug and alcohol programs that support the wellness of individuals instead of criminalizing behavior, economic systems that protect and prioritize survivors, and reproductive care for people across the spectrum of their lives and their choices about building families, just to name a few.