Reclaiming Safety for Children Whose Parents Use Substances title image features a mom being hugged by her teenage son and an illustration of a living room behind them.

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.

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The Demand Will Always Be Abolition: On Ending ICE and Borders

The criminalization of immigration must end.

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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.

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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.

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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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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. 

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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.

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Students walk out of class in protest of Donald Trump's immigration policies on February 4, 2025, at Los Angeles City Hall. SARAH REINGEWIRTZ / MEDIANEWS GROUP / LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS VIA GETTY IMAGES

upEND Demands the Abolition of ICE and Immigration Detention

Family policing abolition includes immigrant justice, and upEND demands the abolition of ICE and an end to immigrant detention, deportation, and surveillance.

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Social worker Bubbles investigates the family in Lilo & Stitch (2002). In this screenshot he is bending down to talk to Lilo while Nani stands behind him and looks scared.

Breaking Down Family Policing Copaganda in the New ‘Lilo & Stitch’

Set in Hawai’i, against the backdrop of violent family separation of Indigenous families by the child welfare system, the film is poised to impact the way millions of people think about family policing and the termination of parental rights. 

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Reclaiming Safety for Children of Parents with Disabilities resource cover features a Black mom with a scarf holding an infant wrapped in a blanket.

Reclaiming Safety for Children of Parents with Disabilities

Justice for parents with disabilities and their children first and foremost means power to exert lived experience expertise about one’s own situation, condition, and wellbeing.

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