This event is hosted by Project Lets.

We speak of non-carceral care in our dreams of a more liberatory approach to mental health and crisis response, but what does that really look like in practice?

What does an abolitionist care praxis look like on the ground and in our communities?

Join Project LETS in exploring beyond visions and stepping into the everyday practice of non-pathologizing, holistic care work based completely outside of carceral frameworks and systems.

In a panel discussion, we’ll hear from current Project LETS Peer Support Advocates (PSAs) working on the front lines of abolitionist care work and crisis response. Together, we’ll examine how community members can resist medicalization and criminalization, while building systems of care rooted in dignity, trust, and mutual responsibility.

What to expect:

• Stories from the frontlines: hear firsthand accounts from Peer Support Advocates providing care in moments where the state often intervenes with policing, hospitalization, or forced treatment.

• Concrete practices, tools, and skill-sharing: Leave with tangible strategies, resources, and inspiration to recreate forms of resistance, connection, and advocacy in your own contexts.

• Reimagination in action: See what it looks like when people actively create alternatives (mutual aid structures, peer support networks, and crisis response models) that reduce reliance on institutions of policing and psychiatry.