CLASSACT NEWS

Classmates Ham Fish, Jerome Harris, Rob Segwick, Therese Steiner joined JusticeAid Founder and CEO Steve Milliken and ROCKED OUT at the  May 24th concert “Gotta Serve Somebody” benefitting the Mental Health Project of the Urban Justice Center on Bob Dylan’s birthday. Six phenomenal female jazz and blues artists celebrated the music of Bob Dylan, a powerful illustration that art has the power to create positive world change.

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The night before, classmate Linda Corman attended a standing room only JusticeAid-hosted  panel “Justice, Mental Health and Incarceration" moderated by New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Winerip, and including several people involved in the Close Rikers movement.  The panel, focussing on barriers to justice for people with mental illness, was live-streamed on Facebook Live— a ClassACT and JusticeAid first! 

Check out: justiceaid.org.  and link here for short video on JusticeAid and the work of the Mental Health Project. 

If you're concerned about the justice system and its influence on mental health of the incarcerated, and/or a New Yorker eager to close Rikers' Island, you'll want to know about this: a chance to tap the expertise of an extraordinary group of mental health professionals on the cutting edge of advocacy, programming and assistance for people with mental illness currently in or recently out of the prison/jail systems.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 23rd, at 6:30pm, as part of our community outreach efforts, JusticeAid, A ClassAct HR73 bridge project, will host a panel JUSTICE, MENTAL HEALTH & INCARCERATION, moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist Michael Winerip.

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Check out the global coverage of the Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program Assembly, which ClassACT held with co-sponsor The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs on December 5.

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