CaRe Not cops conference

Care Not Cops Conference, June 25-27th 2026, Sacramento

The Anti Police Terror Project is hosting Care Not Cops June 25-27, 2026 in Oak Park Sacramento. This three-day hybrid gathering is rooted in one belief: our communities deserve care, not criminalization. Too often, policing is the default response to mental health crises, substance use, poverty, and conflict, and too often that response creates more harm. This conference is a direct intervention, advancing community-led models that allow Black and Brown communities to experience real safety, health, healing, and collective wellbeing. Bringing together community members, healers, mental health providers, organizers, policymakers, and culture workers, Care Not Cops creates space to build practical and sustainable alternatives to systems that produce trauma and state violence.

 The Healing Justice & Alternatives Conference (June 25th & 26th) provides 2 days of skill-sharing across policy, lived experience, culture, and organizing. We center solutions grounded in dignity and prevention, with art, rest, and collective care woven throughout because healing is foundational to liberation. 

On June 27th, we will host a Community Wellness & Healing Justice Festival in Oak Park to extend the work beyond the conference space by offering real-time services, resources, art, music, healing and community connection. Care Not Cops is about strengthening crisis response rooted in trust and care in Sacramento and beyond.

For additional information, you may contact Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah, APTP Consultant and Conference Organizer at Mizanalkebulan@gmail.com.