All People's Health Collective Podcast

Welcome to the beginning of an ongoing convo we will be having about the nuances of substance use in the “post” drug war world.

Eric Harris, Associate Executive Director of External Affairs, returns to the pod to talk about what the ADA got right, and where it fell short, on improving the economic conditions of people with disabilities.

In this episode, our host Susan Li speaks with The Fund for Guaranteed Income's (F4GI) Executive Coordinator, Melody Parker.  F4GI is a 501(c)(3) public charity launched in August 2020 to prove a viable path to guaranteed income–direct, recurring cash transfers that support those who have been locked out of welfare programs and economic systems. By building technical tools and political coali...

Todd Cunningham is the Food and Wellness Organizer at Los Angeles Community Action Network. #FoodJustice

APHC member Katherine Wolf engages the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers’ Russell Dawson Rawlings in an in-depth conversation about the movement for independent living.

Susan from APHC interviewed Andy Imparato, CEO of Disability Rights California about his experience doing policy work for 4 decades, and where it took us, where it moved things, what it achieved, where it failed, and what he’s learned

All People’s Health Collective podcast co-host, Susan Li, is joined in conversation with Gretchen Berman, co-founder and executive director of A New Path, a non-profit advocacy organization of parents, concerned citizens, individuals in recovery, healthcare professionals and community leaders working together to educate the public, media and decision makers about the true nature of the disease of...

Vanessa Ramos of Disability Rights California and the All People’s Health Collective joins podcast co-host Susan Li to discuss the deep concerns about the implementation of CA Prop 1 at the intersection of California’s Behavioral Health Services Act and substance use disorder.

Vanessa Ramos of Disability Rights California and the All People’s Health Collective joins podcast co-host Susan Li to discuss how services in California are failing to provide people with the care and supports they need and warehousing people in cruel, isolating, and coercive locked facilities instead—sometimes for years. Vanessa looks at the lessons that can be learned from the substance use dis...

Vanessa Ramos and Lucina Kayee talk through the often missing stories of homelessness, substance use, and how harm reduction is imagined.

 Sarah Wattar, a global teacher and an investigator with Civil Rights Corps, talks about her work fighting the policing, incarceration, and court systems and contrasts it with how intervention is understood in other countries, pointing to the ways families, and the lives of people within them, have been defined, protected, and disrupted in the U.S. She and the host also reflect on how SB 258 is ye...

In this episode, Susan (CRC) and Carolina (DRC) discuss what carceral feminism is and how it showed up in SB 258. They explore how the pervasive impulse to punish, culturally and criminally, in the name of protecting women has burned people out and turned most away from engaging in conversations about the full range of sexual experiences, from miscommunication to regret to violence

Kecia Weller, woman with lived experience of I/DD and a national sexual violence educator, shares her fight against California’s SB 258 and the nonprofits and policymakers who negotiated deals without her.

In conversation with UC Irvine Professor Aaron Bornstein about recent findings on the damage caused by psychiatric holds and how the outcomes are so similar to mass incarceration.