MHPG Community Conversations: Understanding the Impacts on Disability, Housing, and Justice of the July Executive Order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets”
MHPG Community Conversations: Understanding the Impacts on Disability, Housing, and Justice of the July Executive Order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets”
Join us for a live webinar
Our Mental Health Practice Group (MHPG) presents community conversations, a webinar series presenting topics through the lens of lived experience with a mental health disability.
Together, we will explore how the Executive Order "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets" may impact Californians with disabilities, and marginalized communities living unhoused.
When:
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Pacific Time
About the webinar:
This webinar will empower impacted individuals and the mental health community at large with Know Your Rights information. We’ll explore how the Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” may affect Californians living with disabilities, unhoused, and communities of color, in relation to housing, justice, and mental health systems.
Who should attend:
- Individuals living with mental health disabilities
- Individuals living unhoused
- Communities of color and culture
- Family members/Caregivers
- Peers Advocates, Cultural Brokers, and Community Health Workers
- Grassroots organizations and community organizers
- Justice Advocates
- Allies
Moderator:
Leslie Napper, Senior Advocate, Mental Health Practice Group
Panelists:
Faye Wilson Kennedy is a founding member of the Black Parallel School Board (BPSB), Black Hair and Black Hygiene Project (BHBH), the Red, Black, and Green Environmental Justice Coalition (RBG EJC), Sisters Quilting Collective (SQC), and the Sacramento Black Book Fair (SBBF). She also works as an organizer with the Sacramento Poor People’s Campaign (Sac PCC).
Faye has a long history of public service and community development. She has more than 35 years of experience as a community organizer, human services professional, educator, and group facilitator, working with diverse communities, agencies, and organizations across Northern California.
Faye currently serves as Chair of the Sacramento Area Black Caucus, Chair of the Black Parallel School Board, immediate past Quad Chair for the California Poor People’s Campaign, and former president of the Colonial Heights Friends of the Library.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in child development and cultural anthropology from CSUS, along with a Community College Teaching Credential in Child Development and Early Childhood Education, as well as certificates in Open Space Technology and Event Planning.
Monica Porter-Gilbert is the Associate Director and Senior Counsel of Public Policy at Disability Rights California. Her work focuses on mental health and homelessness policy. Monica brings to her work personal and professional experience with mental health systems. Prior to joining DRC, Monica did mental health policy advocacy at the federal level at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, worked to end homelessness at Homebase, and represented people with mental health disabilities in impact litigation at Disability Rights Advocates. Monica holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Social Welfare, with minors in Public Policy and Disability Studies.
Samuel Jain is a Senior Attorney at Disability Rights California the in Mental Health Practice Group with a long history of involvement in California’s mental health system as an advocate, person with lived experience, family member, and former provider. Prior to joining DRC, Samuel was a mental health patients’ rights advocate in Santa Clara County for 5.5 years. He was formerly appointed to the Patients’ Rights Committee of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council and is currently a member of the DHCS Behavioral Health Stakeholder Advisory Committee. He lives in Sacramento with his partner, daughter, and two cats.