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SUMMARY:Criminalising Distress FOI team meeting
DESCRIPTION:The FOI (“freedom of information”) team meet as part of the Medact Research Network’s current project ‘Criminalising Distress’. \n\n\n\nThe 18-month project explores the evolution and impacts of\, accountability for\, and alternatives to Serenity Integrated Mentoring (SIM)\, a model of mental health care involving police officers into non-emergency therapeutic interventions. \n\n\n\nFor more information about the project email Research and Policy Manager Hil Aked at hilaked@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/criminalising-distress-foi-team-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230517T183000
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SUMMARY:Housing & Health: London meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Economic Justice Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns\, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing\, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters. \n\n\n\nOver the past few months\, our members have been actively involved in national advocacy work through the Homes For Us Campaign\, local organising work in Birmingham\, and a new project organising with tenants and community organisers in Harrow. \n\n\n\nAt this meeting\, you’ll hear from the members involved in our Housing and Health campaign\, get updates on our local organising work in Harrow\, help us develop next steps and identify other potential campaigns in London. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to be a regular member of the Economic Justice & Health group or a health worker to get involved—everyone is welcome! \n\n\n\nIf you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org \n\n\n[Registration has now closed] \n\n\n\nBackground\n\n\n\nThe housing system in the UK is broken. Currently\, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector. One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living\, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households\, ethnic minority groups\, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality\, unsafe\, insecure housing. Despite all of this\, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling\, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing.  \n\n\n\nAs part of the health community\, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalities \n\n\n\nYou can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/housing-health-mtg-may17/
LOCATION:Medact Office\, The Brick Yard\, 28 Charles Square\, London\, N1 6HT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Social
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SUMMARY:Medact Research Network Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Medact Rights Research Network Quarterly is an online space for us to come together\, share our work\, discuss new projects\, or delve into deep discussion about research that has caught your interest.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll be welcoming two guest speakers from US-based health justice body Human Impact Partners (HIP)\, Elana Muldavin and Christine Mitchell who will be in conversation with our Economic Justice & Health campaigner Jordi. \n\n\n\nThey’ll be speaking about HIP’s new Research Code of Ethics\, which has been designed with guidance from community organisers in order to foster research that’s accountable\, responsible\, equitable\, and just to the communities it seeks to serve. Join us to talk about how Medact can do the same. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Mitchell is a research project director with the Health Instead of Punishment program at Human Impact Partners\, a national public health nonprofit based in Oakland\, CA. She is an organizer with the Boston-based DeeperThanWater Coalition and a co-author of the American Public Health Association policy statements on law enforcement violence and carceral systems. She has a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Science in Social and Behavioral Sciences from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElana Muldavin is a senior research associate at Human Impact Partners\, where her work focuses on advancing economic security through collaborative\, community-centered research. She believes that policy advocacy\, community organizing\, and participatory research are powerful tools in service of health and racial equity. Elana holds a Master of Public Health from University of California\, Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in sociology from Occidental College. \n\n\n\n\n\nQuestions? Get in touch with our Research & Policy Manager\, Hil Aked \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/mrnq-march/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230531T183000
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SUMMARY:Medact Groups Check-in
DESCRIPTION:This is a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect\, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other moving forward. \n\n\n\nIdeally one or more people from each group can come along and represent their group\,  and the group representative(s) don’t need to be a coordinator: anyone who is involved is welcome! \n\n\n\nAs part of the check in\, we would love for each group to spend two minutes sharing a few highlights from the last few months\, any challenges you’ve had\, and any plans you have coming up. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or would like to chat through anything\, do get in touch with Ben Eder:  beneder@medact.org \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/groups-check-in-may/
LOCATION:Zoom
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