
- Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
- Time: 4-6pm
- Location: The Forum at Town Hall Seattle – 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98101 (view map »)
- Price: $0-10; refreshments will be served
Online registration is now closed. Please email suzannes@solid-ground.org to sign up.
Solid Ground’s Social Justice Salons are intimate, in-person community conversations that bring together Solid Ground staff, participants, partners, and local leaders to discuss innovative solutions to community challenges.
MINDING THE GAP: Poverty, homelessness, and restoring our broken mental health system will explore how our community navigates the intersections of poverty, race, culture, social/emotional wellbeing, behavioral health, and homelessness. Human services providers have long understood that behavioral health access is essential for communities to thrive. Barriers to accessing culturally competent care have led to agencies embedding services within our programs through partnerships and other initiatives.
At MINDING THE GAP, local experts from the service community and program participants will discuss some of the facts and myths impacting how behavioral health is viewed. We’ll also dig into innovative approaches to services for trauma-impacted families, people facing housing insecurity, and others with lived experiences with poverty.
Panelists:
- DeAunte Damper (Moderator), Co-chair, WA Therapy Fund; Community Organizer, VOCAL-WA; and Host, Converge Media’s We Live in Color
- Johnny Bousquet, Participant Support Specialist Supervisor, CoLEAD – Dignity. Action. (PDA)
- Phillip Carr, CEO & Clinical Director, Good Intentions Counseling
- Susan McLaughlin, Director of the Behavioral Health & Recovery Division, King County Department of Community & Human Services
- Paul Park, Senior Director of Programs, Solid Ground
- Alix Van Hollebeke, Former Director of Nursing at Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
See Past Social Justice Salons
Questions about the Social Justice Salons?
Contact Anna Cronin, Senior Director of Philanthropy & Communications, at annac@solid-ground.org for more information!