NEWS
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.
June is Stolen Children’s Month
Stolen Children’s Month calls for the abolition of all systems that steal children and separate families.
Reclaiming Safety for Domestic Violence Survivors and Their Kids
Survivors have been clear about what they need to build safety for themselves and their kids: housing, childcare, mental health care, financial stability, community support, and people who will listen without judgment.
Reclaiming Safety for Children Whose Parents Use Substances
The authors challenge the family policing system’s assumptions that parental drug use automatically equals harm to a child. They propose concrete steps that hold families together and meet material needs.
The Demand Will Always Be Abolition: On Ending ICE and Borders
The criminalization of immigration must end.
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.
Reclaiming Safety for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Drawing on the wisdom of survivors, Asgarian posits powerful questions that challenge us to respond more humanely to child sexual harm in ways that prioritize youth agency, center healing, and hold promise for ending intergenerational cycles of harm, silence, pain, and shame.
Reflections on upEND’s 5th Birthday
Five years ago, around Juneteenth—a celebration of delayed but hard-won freedom—a small collective of insiders-turned-abolitionists planted the seeds of upEND.