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events

Discover upcoming events, and volunteer opportunities to connect with our community.

Rayo Movie Night!
Jul
12

Rayo Movie Night!

Rayo Movie Night. Join us for a cozy movie night filled with good food, good connection, and community care. Accessible, free, all are welcome!

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May
31

Foraging Workshop with Natalie Daniels

Join Us Saturday May 31st from 12-2 at the Humboldt Park field house for an afternoon of foraging and education! Natalie, our wild food instructor, will go over the basics of foraging with us! We will get to learn how to forage safely as well as ethically. During this event, we will go on a plant walk so we can discover the wild food growing all around us.

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May
28

Peer Space Planning Meetings

Join Rayo’s Peer Planning Meetings—fun, free, and open to all! Led by people with lived experience of psychological distress, these gatherings are a chance to co-create Rayo’s peer-led space, with offerings like skill shares, community meals, and drop-in support. Help shape the healing space you want to see!

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May
21

Peer Space Planning Meetings

Join Rayo’s Peer Planning Meetings—fun, free, and open to all! Led by people with lived experience of psychological distress, these gatherings are a chance to co-create Rayo’s peer-led space, with offerings like skill shares, community meals, and drop-in support. Help shape the healing space you want to see!

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May
14

Peer Space Planning Meetings

Join Rayo’s Peer Planning Meetings—fun, free, and open to all! Led by people with lived experience of psychological distress, these gatherings are a chance to co-create Rayo’s peer-led space, with offerings like skill shares, community meals, and drop-in support. Help shape the healing space you want to see!

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May
7

Peer Space Planning Meetings

Join Rayo’s Peer Planning Meetings—fun, free, and open to all! Led by people with lived experience of psychological distress, these gatherings are a chance to co-create Rayo’s peer-led space, with offerings like skill shares, community meals, and drop-in support. Help shape the healing space you want to see!

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Apr
29

Together at the end of the World

A new therapeutic support group where we support each other through life’s toughest challenges. We’re building a space of connection, solidarity and healing.

Group Co-Facilitators: Toni Solaru and Charla Trubey-Hockman

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Apr
22

Together at the end of the World

A new therapeutic support group where we support each other through life’s toughest challenges. We’re building a space of connection, solidarity and healing.

Group Co-Facilitators: Toni Solaru and Charla Trubey-Hockman

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Apr
15

Together at the end of the World

A new therapeutic support group where we support each other through life’s toughest challenges. We’re building a space of connection, solidarity and healing.

Group Co-Facilitators: Toni Solaru and Charla Trubey-Hockman

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Apr
13

Madness Mapping and Safety Planning Event

Join Rayo-Co-Op and Therapy Access Project for a hands-on workshop where we’ll guide you through creating your own safety plan using Keeping Us Safe: A Wellness-Centered Madness Map & Crisis Planning Guidesheets by Kayden Rose. Guided walk-through of wellness tools and crisis mapping

  • Space to personalize and adapt your safety plan

  • Support network mapping and resource sharing

  • Community-centered care in an affirming space

This event is open to anyone navigating mental health challenges, anyone who is mad, seeking alternative healing, or wanting to build a personalized crisis plan.

Together, we keep us safe.

Questions or accommodation requests?

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Apr
10

ISPS: Involuntary Commitment and its Potential Impacts: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue Spanning Research, Ethics and Methodology

The involuntary hospitalization of people experiencing mental health crises is a widespread practice across the US, as common as imprisonment in state and federal prisons. In spite of persistent concerns from service users and advocates, the impacts of involuntary treatment have been difficult to characterize, and causal inference limited by structural and ethical barriers.

This panel will lead with important new research led by Dr. Welle utilizing administrative data from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and leveraging the quasi-random assignment of evaluating physicians in order to estimate causal effects of involuntary hospitalization on post-discharge death by suicide or overdose, violent crime and employment. For individuals whom some physicians would hospitalize but others would not, the team has found that hospitalization nearly doubles the probability of being charged with a violent crime or dying by suicide or overdose in the three months after evaluation.

Remaining panelists – Drs. Morgan Shields and Awais Aftab – will reflect on these provocative findings and share their own adjacent work. Specifically, Dr. Shields will focus on inpatient psychiatry, including common experiences in inpatient settings, and the potential role of inpatient iatrogenic harm with respect to post-discharge outcomes. Dr. Awais, a community psychiatrist and philosopher of psychiatry, will discuss ethical and political implications, as well as potential ways forward.

Can't attend live? Don't worry! The webinar will be recorded and sent to all registrants.

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community mental health center

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services free from coercion

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worker-led ✹ democratically organized ✹ community mental health center ✹ person-centered ✹ rights-based ✹ services free from coercion ✹