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Ending the foster care system is a process.
Ending foster care means not just the closing of foster homes but prioritizing the building of critical systems of support for families and communities.
Abolitionist Steps to Build a Better World
Authors: Maya Pendleton and Alan Dettlaff
In 2020, during the peak of the summer uprisings in response to the…
No Coincidence: Black Family Separations Then and Now
Author: Josie Pickens
“Night and day, you could hear men and women screaming … ma, pa, sister or brother … taken without…
We Know Investing In Families Works. Why Are We Still Investing in Harm?
Authors: Joanna Lack & Bill Bettencourt
A key tenet of abolition is the recognition that carceral systems are not…
Protect the Indian Child Welfare Act
On November 9, 2022, the Supreme Court will hear Haaland v. Brackeen, which challenges the constitutionality of the Indian Child…
The Power of Co-Opting: Language Is Changing, But Will It Change the Status Quo?
Language is powerful. The words we use signal how we make sense of the world – and people – around us. When…
Reproductive Justice Demands the End of Family Policing
In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts traces how the maintenance of slavery necessitated the domination and control of Black…
Finding Space to Imagine: How White Supremacy Culture Stifles Creativity
Launched just over a year ago, the upEND Movement seeks to end the child welfare system, which we call the…
Making Possible the Impossible: A Black Feminist Perspective on Child Welfare Abolition
In 1863, Harriet Tubman and eight of her trusted scouts orchestrated the Combahee River uprising in South Carolina. The uprising…
Press Releases
- upEND Statement on Texas Governor’s Trans Youth Directive
- upEND's New Home, New Faces, Same Goal: Abolish The Family Policing System
- The upEND Movement Releases How We endUP: Ideas About How We Can, In Community, Move Towards the Abolition of Family Policing
- On the Road to Abolition: the upEND Movement Releases Three New Resources to Help Reimagine the Child Welfare System
- New Movement Seeks to upEND the Child Welfare System and Create Anti-Racist Supports for Children and Families
upEND Featured In
What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020 – upEnding Systemic Racism
Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast
January 15, 2021
- New upEND Publication Calls for Fundamental Transformation of Family Policing, July 27, 2021
- CPS disproportionately takes custody of Black children, report says, July 26, 2021
- Being with Family Is a Human Right: We Can’t and Won’t Deny It, A Second Chance, Inc., December 14, 2020
- What It Means to Abolish Child Welfare As We Know It, the Imprint, October 24, 2020
- Reimagining Child Welfare Services: A Call to UpEND Child Welfare as We Know It, Children’s Bureau Express, August/September 2020
- University of Houston Launches upEND Movement (VIDEO), Fox 26 Houston, July 15, 2020
- New Movement Seeks to ‘upEND’ Child Welfare System, News Break, July 14, 2020
- Now Is the Time for Abolition, the Imprint, June 22, 2020
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