During BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re talking about more than awareness. We’re talking about the systems that shape mental health every single day.
“Ban the Box” sounds promising until it’s sporadically enforced, leaving many justice-impacted people facing the same barriers to employment despite policies meant to create opportunity.
We’re still fighting slumlords because families with incarceration histories are too often assumed to be unable to pay rent or maintain their homes.
We’re creating change one signature at a time because, until injustice affects someone’s own family, it often remains unimaginable.
We’re pushing forward because incarceration doesn’t just take away freedom. It can worsen mental health, strain families, and reduce opportunities for healthy, stable lives.
Getting in good trouble means challenging the systems that keep these barriers in place.
Join the #FreeAbdus campaign GoodTrouble Team.
- Share the petition to 7 new people each day this week.
- Send a message to Waterbury State Attorney Maureen Platt: maureen.platt@po.state.ct.us, urging her to stand on the side of justice and vacate all charges against Ismail so he can come home to his family.
- on Friday at 11am make an original social media post using hashtags #FreeAbdus #GoodTrouble #CriminalJusticeReform #AccessToJustice #TruthOverTechnicalities
Justice is mental health. Housing is mental health. Employment is mental health. Family is mental health.
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