COMMUNITY CARE RESOURCES

Ohio Police Reform Policy Table

Help end police brutality in Ohio. Walk with us toward accountability! Empowered by extremist lobbyists, bad actors in local politics and local law enforcement break the rules, ignore their training, and face no consequences for actions that make our families less safe, or harm those in their care. Instead of taking responsibility for their failures, certain politicians want to divide and distract us by pointing the finger at the people and communities harmed by police brutality. Join us to declare that it’s time to end police brutality in Ohio. Low-income seniors and people with disabilities are among the fastest-growing vulnerable populations falling into a gap in our justice system. We have an obligation to ensure our community can live with dignity and independence regardless of income.

Click Here

ELDR Center

Through advocacy, education, and the provision of free and low-cost legal services, the ELDR Center strives to ensure dignity and justice for members of our communities who are elderly, living with disabilities, or experiencing homelessness. Low-income seniors and people with disabilities are among the fastest-growing vulnerable populations falling into a gap in our justice system. We have an obligation to ensure our community can live with dignity and independence regardless of income.

Click Here

The Harriet Tubman Collective

The Harriet Tubman Collective is Collective of Black Deaf & Black Disabled organizers, community builders, activists, dreamers, lovers striving for radical inclusion and collective liberation. It has a number of statements on police violence against people with disabilities, including the statement on "Completing the Vision for Black Lives."

Click Here

CAT-911

The vision of Community Alternatives to 911 is a city and region where local communities have the resources and strong, interpersonal relationships needed to respond constructively and healthfully to problems together. We know that we cannot depend on the broken criminal justice system to solve our problems and that calling 911 often just makes the situation worse — if they respond at all. CAT 911 is about building transformative justice that lets us take control of our lives and our communities into our own hands and nurtures each other’s growth and human possibility.

Click Here

A New Way of Life

Abolition is not limited to ending spaces and practices of A nationally acclaimed reentry program for women, A New Way of Life was established in 1998 by Susan Burton. Ms. Burton struggled to rise above a life of poverty, violence, and loss, and was enmeshed in the cycle of mass incarceration for nearly two decades. After being released from prison for the sixth time, Ms. Burton was finally able to access recovery services in an affluent area of Los Angeles. There she discovered and embraced opportunities that were never offered before. She became determined to bring those resources to areas plagued by poverty and over-incarceration.reimagining new ways of life such that a world in which prisons, policing and other carceral systems as solutions to social problems becomes unthinkable. Abolitionism is also not just about creating new responses to crises but creating a new world in which we thrive such that less crises happen in the first place.

The call “we keep us safe” reminds us that solutions should empower all people, including Disabled and Neurodivergent people, to exercise our self-determination with care and understanding. We all deserve the resources, support, training and education we need to love and protect ourselves and one another.

Click Here