We can build a society where children and families are strengthened and supported, not surveilled and separated.
upEND Convening 2024
October 9-10, 2024
Houston, TX + Virtual
Join a national conversation about family policing abolition. Leave equipped to take action in your community.
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family policing further entrench systemic harms or do they create a society where the need for a family policing system is obsolete?
Season 2 of the upEND Podcast Explores Questions of Solidarity
Let’s deepen our political education and bring new people to the fight for our collective liberation.
Reflections on Pride 2024
Ending the family policing system and fighting for an abolitionist world necessarily also includes developing a robust platform that centers and amplifies the realities that Black LGBTQ youth face as they navigate carceral systems.
Prize Winners Named for “Dream, Create, Liberate” Afrofuturist Art Publication
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Dream, Create, Liberate: A Future Without Family Policing call for submissions.
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