Kate Heinen

Licensed Clinical Social Worker, writer, artist, policy activist for noncarceral justice, KC neighborhood fan, beet juice fiend.
♥️Nurturance culture all day♥️

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

If you want to read more about suicide and helping suicidal people from social justice perspectives, I highly recommend this book:

https://t.co/2Ta7Qe3tah

[E Krebs, PhD 🧂 @SaltySicky]

If you want to learn about anti-carceral mental healthcare practices (meaning care where patients don't lose their rights or autonomy), check out @projectlets, @fireweedHJ, @idha_nyc, @Mad_In_America, and @TransLifeline.

[Kate Heinen @advokateKC]

"We were never making trade-offs for our safety, just concessions for our freedom. It was never about protection, but control. We can't be protected by the same toxic masculinity that kills us." https://t.co/pTbR6omxX7

[Kate Heinen @advokateKC]

It was at a crisis mental health training in KANSAS in 2016 that I learned de-escalation skills and restraints using Mandt system. The training was explicit that prone position was to NEVER be used bc people die. How is this still allowable? Why no consequence? @SedgewickCoDA

[The Sparrow Project @sparrowmedia]

Cedric Lofton was experiencing a mental health crisis when officers restrained him and knelt on his back until he stopped breathing. It is unconscionable how the DA now cites KS's "Stand Your Ground" Law to allow Cedric's murderers to evade accountability. https://t.co/TVNCkLCO5X

[Kate Heinen @advokateKC]

@KCStar Please do more to spotlight the humanity and experiences of unhoused people. Tired of only hearing about them after the fact. I spent 8 years working in local shelters and rarely encountered a journalist with interest in sharing our client's stories - or better yet, their ideas.

[The Kansas City Star @KCStar]

“We forget to look at people’s stories,” said an outreach worker, noting that for days after the fire, headlines highlighted the damaged bridge rather than the life lost. https://t.co/yl1EGTiPeh

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.

—Joy Harjo
#WomensHistoryMonth
https://t.co/5IT847vkP3

[The Legal Aid Society @LegalAidNYC]

“Still, I showed up and took the exam. And I passed. But when I got home, that's when it all hit. That's when I started crying and thinking about how, even at this point in my life, despite everything I have accomplished, this is still happening to me.” https://t.co/8QqoJdi2n8

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Proud of the #2019FIFAWWC champs! Congrats to the @USWNT!

🇺🇸🏆🇺🇸🏆🇺🇸🏆🇺🇸🏆🇺🇸

#OneNationOneTeam

[U.S. Women's National Soccer Team @USWNT]

Speechless, @roselavelle

🔥🌹🔥🌹🔥🌹

[kansaslegalservices @KLSforkansas]

Sure is a mean way to collect the rent!
For the Poor, Eviction Is a Serial Threat, Not a One-Time Event https://t.co/hG6812Bzuz

[kansaslegalservices @KLSforkansas]

Activists are now campaigning for the passage of “fair-chance housing ordinances” that would prohibit landlords from denying applicants with prior convictions.
Ending housing discrimination against the formerly incarcerated https://t.co/a4y0v85zxN via @Curbed

[Benny Feilhaber @b_feilhaber22]

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[Massachusetts Law Reform Institute @MassLawReform]

"Evicted for Life," out today.

Tenant screening companies make use of online court records, and many companies advise their landlord clients to reject anyone with an eviction case within the past four years, without regard to its outcome.

Read more:
https://t.co/1DE8djMIoy

[kansaslegalservices @KLSforkansas]

Right on! Seeing all white men on a panel is getting really old!

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Is it really that hard to not be creepy? https://t.co/WJJv7QNDyn

[Ayanna Pressley @AyannaPressley]

We can't be distracted from the bigoted policies this Admin is advancing every day. Transgender Americans should be able to serve w/o fear of discrimination. Period. I stand w/ the transgender community & will work with colleagues & advocates to #fightheban and #supportranstroops

[Jennifer Wright @JenAshleyWright]

Betsy DeVos owns a $40 million yacht. She could sell it and fund the Special Olympics and she wouldn’t even be out of yachts.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

White supremacists committed the largest # of extremist killings in 2017.

What the President is saying here: “if you engage in violent acts of white supremacy, I will look the other way.”

Understand that this is deliberate. This is why we can’t afford to sit on the sidelines.