Ep. 18 - Mental Health, Criminal Justice, & I-Positivity ft. Miles Fountain

GUEST
Miles Fountain works as an educator at Positive Mental Health
(PMH) which emerged out of a pursuit to inspire people with
disabilities to be more, do more, an achieve greater goals.
Today, they design programs, projects, and activities that
nurture positive mental health by training participants for
employment as workers and entrepreneurs. PMH promotes mental,
physical, emotional, and economic health in the Oak Park Chicago
suburb and the broader area. Miles' work focuses on improving
self above all else and getting clients sustainable work
opportunities. PMH conducts this work on an interpersonal level
within the broader mission to destroy "the oppressor's paradigm."
Under this framework, they understand and work against the
macro-level issues that create many of the individual situations
they encounter.


OVERVIEW
Miles and BrownTown investigate the overlap of mental health
services in jails and prisons, particularly in Chicago, which
holds the nation's largest mental health facility...Cook County
Jail. The gang touch on the Ban the Box movement, critique of the
prison-industrial complex, and even (and especially) Attorney
General Jeff Sessions.


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Learn more about Positive Mental Health at ipositive.org.


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CREDITS: Intro/outro music by Fiendsh. Audio
engineered by Genta Tamashiro. Episode art and Bourbon 'n
BrownTown logo by Desirae Gladden.


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