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Philadelphia Treatment Not Trauma Coalition

We believe that Philadelphians experiencing mental health emergencies deserve a response that is
SAFE
TIMELY
TRAUMA-INFORMED and
CLINICIAN-LED

10/27/2025

"Sweeps, crackdowns, and mass hospitalizations may make homelessness less visible for a moment, but they don’t solve it. They just push suffering out of view—until it resurfaces again, often

10/21/2025

At a community meeting recently in Philadelphia, police referred to human beings as a "nuisance". This easy dehumanization of people is why police are never the right choice for providing mental health crisis care. (ID: puple with white text: No human being is a “nuisance” regardless of their struggles with mental illness, substance use, or housing.
Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, care, and compassion.
No one should be swept aside, disregarded, degraded, or disappeared._

08/01/2025

This is info about 302's as per the law. It's not totally how things go down in reality, but might be good info to have. (ID: purple background, pink graphic of a law paper text. 1: The term “302” comes from the
PA Mental Health Procudes Act
Article 3: Involuntary Examination and Treatment

301: Says who who may be “Subject to Involuntary Emergency Examination and Treatment”.

302: What happens when some is taken into “Involuntary Emergency Examination and Treatment ”- Less than 120 hrs
303: “Extended Involuntary Emergency Treatment Certified by a Judge or Mental Health Review Officer.” Less than 20 Days.
304: “Court-ordered Involuntary Treatment” 20-90 Days. 2. 301: Who can be taken to treatment against their will.
“People who exhibit, “clear and present danger,” based on previous 30 day history of inflicting or attempting to inflict body harm on another or been shown to have difficulty surviving without intervention, OR su***de attempt, OR credible threats to physically harm self”. 3. 302: What “should” happen when someone is taken to treatment against their will in Pennsylvania.

A provider documents that the person is “severely mentally disabled” and in need of immediate treatment. A county administrator may issue a warrant.
Assessment within 2 hours of arriving at a facility then treatment begins.

07/01/2025

We stand with Philadelphia Municipal workers. All our struggled are intertwined. (Image: purple, white and pink blocks: TAKING CARE OF MUNICIPAL WORKERS IS MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR ALL PHILADELPHIANS.
WORKERS WHO ARE RESPECTED, VALUED, AND COMPENSATED FAIRLY MAKE US ALL HEALTHIER.
THE WORKERS WHO SUSTAIN CLEAN STREETS, LIBRARIES, WATER, AIRPORT, POOLS AND MORE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THEIR FAMILIES.
FINANCIAL STRESS EXACERBATES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ILLNESS.)

06/23/2025

Updated flier: Location is the Public Park behind Friends Hospital crisis response center. Parking available in the hospital parking lot. (Look for Treatment Not trauma members to guide you from the parking to the vigil.)

Aaron Rainey should be alive, but he was killed by Philadelphia Police while experiencing a mental health crisis. Please join us Tuesday 6/24 at 7:30 at the Public park behind Friends Hospital to honor his memory.

06/20/2025

Aaron Rainey should be alive, but he was killed by Philadelphia Police while experiencing a mental health crisis. Please join us Tuesday 6/24 at 7:30 Outside Friends Hospital to honor his memory. Details on exact location TBA.

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06/12/2025

The lack of mobile crisis funding keeps on leading to cops killing Philadelphians. But instead of increasing funding for mobile crisis, the city is spending money on police and on tax cuts for billionaires! It’s time for city council to put the people before police and the ultra rich and increase mobile crisis funding. Thanks to for your coverage. Attention city council: it's not to late to put the people first (who is always on the people's side (who is always on the people's side) (mental health mobile crisis and the services you chose to ban are different and they are both life saving)

05/09/2025

The PPD continues to murder people and harm communities and shirk responsibility. The CPOC is not coming through with holding them accountable. Philadelphians experience mental health emergencies deserve trauma informed, clinician led, compassionate care. They don't deserve to be shot and killed just because they need help. (Image: Photo of Aaron Rainey, the text: Aaron Rainey should be alive.
The Philadelphia Police Department responded to his mental health crisis and shot him to death. NBC10 headline reading: Bodycam of officer who shot, killed man outside Friends Hospital was not activated. Nick Kato is the head of investigations for the
Citizens Police Oversight Commission (CPOC). It’s
a group charged with overseeing the actions
of Philly Police and providing recommendations
to city leaders— including in this case.
“Body-worn camera footage, surveillance, the whole sort of array of evidence that you might see at a scene is made available to us to review,” Kato said.

But he would not share what he viewed— or whether the officers violated policy. “Whether or not that policy was followed would require a misconduct investigation to take place,” he said.

CPOC does not have the authority to conduct such an
investigation. That currently falls to PPD internal affairs.”)

03/30/2025

Where is ? Where is the news coverage beyond a few pieces last week? The police responded to a person having a mental health emergency and he ended up murdered and falsely accused of shooting police that was in fact done by the police themselves. This tragedy could have been completely avoided if the response had been by caring mental health workers and not armed police. (Image: purple background with pink. Photo of Aaron Rainey and of a PPD van. text: Aaron Rainey should be alive.
He was loved.
He needed help.
He agreed to treatment.
He was unarmed.
The PPD transported him in a van.
They shot him to death.
They lied and blamed him when the one cop shot his own partner.
Mobile crisis teams don’t have a pattern of, escalation, lying, violence & killing people in need.
The Philadelphia Police do.)

03/27/2025

What's the police's story gonna change to next? Aaron Rainey, who was a loved community member, father, son, and helper, had a mental health emergency. Police put him in the back of their van for transport, they shot him to death, then they blamed him when one cope accidentally shot the other cop. This was completely avoidable. needs to do better. (Image: purple background, a photo of Aaron looking at the camera, headlines reading: Philly cop was accidentally shot in his ballistic vert by his partner, police say, not the man police originally blamed; Philadelphia officer shot his partner in the scuffle with patient outside friends hospital police say. Text: Police escalate when people need de-escalation.
Police narratives tend to be false, misleading, and dangerous., while perpetuating stereotypes.
Police should not do mental health transports.
Police responded to Aaron Rainey’s mental health crisis, shot him to death, and then blamed him for their own shooting.
Police should be apologizing to Aaron’s mother. )

03/18/2025

Yesterday we spoke at city council to demand a fully funded mobile crisis expansion for Philadelphia.
https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-mental-health-mobile-crisis-response-teams/

03/11/2025

These deaths are avoidable. This is a person who needed help, not death by neglect and incarceration. The supply out there today is not what is was years ago and the withdrawal can be deadly, as we keep seeing as our community members die while incarcerated. Our communities deserve better. Rest in power Andrew. (Image: purple and pink background, text: Drug users are people deserving of care, not cops. Images of an inquirer article describing the death of 42yo Andrew Drury who died at CFCF after being picked up in a sweep).

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