We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
Afrofuturist Art, Call for Submissions
upEND Movement invites you to submit Afrofuturist-inspired visual art, poetry, and short works of fiction to our first creative publication, Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing.
NEW Abolitionist Resource
We hope that this document will be a guide to analyze whether proposed reforms to family policing further entrench the family policing system or move us closer to the abolition of family policing. The questions we ask are a reflection of the world we want to build—one without family policing and one where children are safer.
Upcoming Events
How We endUP Convening 2023
Save the date!
upEND will host their 4th annual convening as a one-day hybrid event hosted in Houston, TX
Abolitionist Steps to Build a Better World
Reforms are ineffective at combating racism and harm in part because they do not intend to, but also because they begin with the wrong presumptions.
No Coincidence: Black Family Separations Then and Now
Black families faced an incomprehensible level of pain, anger, confusion, and powerlessness during enslavement. Sadly, when speaking with Black families who have had their children forcibly and involuntarily removed by the family policing system today, too little has changed.
We Know Investing In Families Works. Why Are We Still Investing in Harm?
The family policing system’s punitive approach does not – and cannot – ever authentically heal or prevent anything.
Subscribe to the upEND Newsletter