Our Demands to Alameda County Supervisors:

  1. Prevent budget cuts to the Health Care Services Agency.
  2. ​Support dedicating new funds this fiscal year for community-based mental health services and housing for formerly incarcerated people with serious mental illness.
  3. Establish and fund a Brown Acted community-centered working group tasked to end the county's reliance on jailing people with mental illness, substance use, and co-occuring disorders.
  4. Mandate and fund reporting, compilation if needed, and public disclosure of data on the needs and demographics of people in Alameda County with serious mental illness, both those currently incarcerated and - for early intervention and prevention - in the community.

*Updated 10/19/20

DAC's Budget & Policy Proposal:
​Transform Community Based Mental Health Care

We are excited to share our first set of priorities and recommendations to zero out the number of people with mental illnesses at Santa Rita Jail. This document was created out of  weeks & weeks of research and forum we held with impacted families.

​These recommendations to the county are a reflection of our priorities, given the data and information that has been made public thus far. Its purpose is to inform and influence the county’s budgetary and mental health care decisions.
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Honor Lives Lost:
Every Sunday 8-9:30pm PST

An online weekly candle-lighting ritual to uplift incarcerated people we have lost to COVID-19 and #DeathbyIncarceration in California. Please feel free to make additions to the online altar we've been creating together. Please join us if you want to hold space for our loved ones trapped in these cages, honor the dozens of people that have been killed by COVID-19 and #DeathByIncarceration, and demand #NoMoreDeaths.

GET INVOLVED

Decarcerate Alameda County meets twice a month. 
​Learn how to get in touch with our coalition in the Contact tab.
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