Chaos in Federal Mental Health Research Today
I'm a federal worker involved in mental health research and care (I won't say where, but we are on federal grant funds). Things are looking despotic here. Lead researcher/clinicians are being put on administrative leave (ostensibly with the intent of firing) if they conducted or received funding for any DEI related projects/programs. Our admin our advising we download our employment records in case we have to close and file to unemployment and benefits, in which case we can't log back into our systems. Our grants are getting frozen today at 5:00pm. It's nothing short of chaos here. It's so surreal. I can't believe Trump is getting away with this.
I know it's hard, but please stay tuned into what's happening. We can't look away when these types of injustices are taking place. We should feel angry, for ourselves, for our patients, and for our entire political system.