<aside> 💚 Principles

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Abolition

We understand that oppressive and dehumanising carceral systems such as prisons, mandatory reporting, and involuntary institutionalisation have no place in community care and must be replaced with anti-carceral alternatives.

Accountability

We hold ourselves and one another responsible for our behaviours and actions.

Autonomy

We respect and uphold the rights and autonomy of all people, including youth and children, Mad people, Disabled people, and substance users.

Care

We are dedicated to expanding access to unbiased, high-quality, and respectful care for everyone.

Community

We build connections based in mutual trust and respect with one another and our communities, with the understanding that care is best fostered in community.

Educational Equity

We are invested in ensuring that all people, regardless of their background or circumstances, have access to high-quality education, including resources, support, and opportunities.

Harm Reduction

We are dedicated to centring the humanity of those we are working with and addressing the harms perpetuated against them, including minimising any harm that may occur.

Horizontality

We are organised non-hierarchically, valuing the input, experience, and expertise of all our volunteers.

Intersectionality

We recognise the interaction of different identities, contexts, and social and political parameters, and respect that they create different perspectives, wisdoms, and experiences.

Transformative Justice

We enact forms of justice which create healing for both the victim and the perpetrator of any harm, by addressing the root causes of harm and centring the victim/survivor of harm through community action.

<aside> 💚 Priorities

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Dismantling detrimental hierarchies

• Redirecting from arbitrary standards for expertise and prioritisation, including by listening to and respecting lived experiences and self-knowledge.
• Re-valuing non-Western, non-institutionalised forms of knowledge, including people’s understandings of their own bodies.
• Deconstructing coercive social relations perpetuated through unequal power dynamics, such as between medic & patient or teacher & student, including moralising care or withholding care based on how much it is “deserved”.

Autonomy for all

• Upholding all people’s rights to understand, choose, and refuse for themselves, including:
  • the right to reproductive and sexual healthcare and education;
  • the right to queer affirming care and education;
  • youth and children’s right to autonomy; and
  • the right to accessible, respectful, and culturally aware care and education.
• Upholding the right of an individual to make free and informed decisions on their own body and self, so long as it does not infringe on the rights, autonomy, and safety of others.
  • With the understanding that rights, autonomy, and safety in this definition refer to the right to be free from harm and violation of any kind – mental, physical, emotional, or otherwise – not a right to be free from discomfort or inflict hurt or harm on others.

Equitable provision of high quality, accessible, and inclusive care and education to all

• Ensuring that the highest quality of care and education is accessible to all people, no matter what.
• Without bias and with respect for:
  • class, income, or housing status;
  • queerness;
  • race, religion, culture, or ethnicity;
  • mental or physical disability or illness;
  • weight or size; or
  • substance use or addiction.

<aside> 💚 Praxis

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Developing and distributing resources to improve public education

• Currently, this manifests in our resource and notes libraries, as well as information shared via our linktree and social media.
• In the future, we hope to run workshops, training courses, and even licensing courses if possible.

Connecting and coordinating provision of care at actions and in community

• At the moment, we provide first aid & mental health first aid to the extent of our capacity.
• In the future, we hope to provide patient advocacy services and assistance navigating medical and healthcare systems as we grow.

Building trusting relationships in diverse, intersectional communities

• We seek to build healthy connections, with the understanding that the collective will essentially constitute a set of intersecting and interacting affinity groups, loosely tied together by a common goal.