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    Treatment Not Trauma

    Treatment Not Trauma seeks to create a 24-hour crisis response hotline for mental health-related emergencies and to reopen Chicago’s shuttered mental health clinics.
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    Yasmeen and Treatment Not Trauma Collaboration

    Yasmeen, with a background in art therapy and workshop facilitation, combined her two passions to create a community-healing, conversation-starting toolkit for the Treatment Not Trauma campaign using zine-making and resource sharing. The campaign will use this toolkit to engage their base in the continued fight for expanded mental health services.
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    The Community Care Art Workshop Toolkit

     

    Yasmeen created an easy-to-use toolkit that empowers anyone to lead a Community Care Art Workshop in their communities with family, friends, and loved ones. The toolkit includes zine and agenda templates to run your own workshop, additional art-making options, the campaign’s history, and a resource list. With this toolkit, Treatment Not Trauma can support leaders in running workshops of their own.

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