Description: | The City’s Department of Recreation and Human Services (DRHS), in conjunction with its partner agencies at the Greater Rochester Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI) and the SUNY Brockport Institute for Poverty Studies and Economic Development will conduct a virtual question and answer session, 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 25 to discuss the intersectionality of Rochester’s criminal justice and community healthcare systems with regard to responding to mental health crises.
DRHS Commissioner Daniele Lyman Torres will be joined by
City Councilmember Mary Lupien; Shani Wilson, Board Chair, Police
Accountability Board; and Sara Taylor, President and CEO, Positive Steps
Consulting for a panel discussion about creating comprehensive, community-based
responses for victims and families in crisis. Topics to be covered include
intersectional approaches to healthcare, innovative solutions to responding
mental health crises and new programs to put intersectional approaches into
practice. The panel will respond to questions from the public following the
discussion.
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