Southfield Coalition for Progress

03/03/2023

Mark your calenders 🗓️ May is Mental Health Awareness Month!

11/16/2022

Visit the link below to RSVP! this event is virtual or in person.
The State of the Black Family - Mental Health Discussion.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/state-of-the-black-family-divine-9-mental-health-panel-discussion-tickets-428838536607?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

08/22/2022

she did not deserve to be beaten by police officers she deserved mental health care not criminalization.
Diressee L Wilson is a Black woman, who is 48 years of age. Her family members describe her as someone who has a significant mental health condition, and a beautiful queen.
On Thursday, 8/18/22 in Pontiac, MI a call was placed for a welfare check, and two police officers, as well as a mental health
Co-Responder arrived to the location where Diressee Wilson was.
Initially, the Mental Health Co-responder began to talk to Diressee. Shortly after, the deputies on sight began to engage with her.
The officers at the scene claim she was trying to light a face cloth on fire and that she swung on them.

The two officers tackled Diressee
to the ground, restrained her, kicked, punched and tassed her multiple times before they arrested her.
Diressee has multiple bruises on her face and neck due to the attack.
When Oakland County Undersheriff Curtis Childs was asked why the officers felt punching her was necessary, he stated:
“She resisted the arrest and we did what we had to do to try and get her under control.”
"It takes whatever force we have to do to gain compliance and that's what was being done."
Source: Channel 4, click on detroit.

In Response to the Incident, Mayor Tim Greimel called for both officers involved to be suspended pending an investigation.
Undersheriff Curtis Childs said the deputies will not be suspended because "this was not a use of deadly force."

Pontiac City council President Mike Mcguinness released a statement calling the footage "disturbing and jarring."
“It also brings back to the surface the sad truth about our society’s current solution for residents struggling with mental illness is mainly policing which isn't fair to those struggling residents or to the police."
McGuinness said (Source: The Oaklandd Press).
Diressee Wilson was scared and in fear for her life. There is no justification for punching, tasing, and arresting a woman because she has a mental disability. Those who live work and recreate in the city of pontiac deserve non-carceral mental health services.

1) Call/Email Pontiac City Officials and Demand that the officers involved be fired immediately ( Email city council at [email protected] or call (248)758-3210 ).

2) Contact the Mayor and city council to demand that funds be removed from the Pontiac sheriff's office and used to create an unarmed mental health response team instead ( Email mayor at [email protected] or call (248)758-3133 ).

3) Diressee Wilson's family currently has a probono civil lawyer & is currently raising funds for a criminal defense lawyer. To donate visit: https://gofund.me/8ac1546e
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07/29/2022

07/28/2022

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07/12/2022

ITS BIPOC MENTAL HEALTH MONTH 🎉💚🎉 The theme of BIPOC mental health month 2022 is . During this month we are called to explore community resources and protective factors, fund culturally responsive mental health workforce, and advocate for stronger systemic support.

06/08/2022

Join AB Korkor Foundation for Mental Health this Friday to bring awareness to mental health!!!
Register at www.register.fivefiftyfifty.org

03/27/2022

Check out Wayne County Commission !
Register here, for this much needed event, it's time to focus on mental health.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-struggle-is-your-struggle-a-panel-discussion-on-the-mental-health-of-tickets-306013965007?aff=eand

02/26/2022

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02/02/2022

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