We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
NEW Downloadable Resource
Abolish the Family Policing System is an introduction to the movement to end the separation of families and create safer communities. We created this short booklet as a way to share an overview of our work with our community. Print your own with just a single sheet of paper.
An upEND Syllabus
Take a self-guided course on family policing’s history, present, and abolitionist future. This is a companion to The upEND Podcast.
Abolitionist Framework Tool
Do proposed reforms to family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
Amicus Brief Successful in New Jersey Supreme Court
These cases highlight the intersections of family policing, the criminal legal system, and the inherent violence of mandated reporting.
Mothers Outreach Network Reaches Next Phase in Guaranteed Income Pilot
By ensuring families have direct, unconditional financial support, this initiative helps prevent unnecessary state intervention.
DC’s Militarization Shows How Policing Targets Black Youth
The current “takeover” of DC has led to federal agents terrorizing DC’s majority Black neighborhoods.
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