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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.
Ending foster care means not just the closing of foster homes but prioritizing the building of critical systems of support for families and communities.
Language is powerful. The words we use signal how we make sense of the world – and people – around us. When…
In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts traces how the maintenance of slavery necessitated the domination and control of Black…
“The way that requirements are heaped onto parents is consistent with the current punitive model for social services, in which…
Launched just over a year ago, the upEND Movement seeks to end the child welfare system, which we call the…
Last fall, I wrote about upEND, a new project focused on addressing structural inequities in the country’s child welfare…
In 1863, Harriet Tubman and eight of her trusted scouts orchestrated the Combahee River uprising in South Carolina. The uprising…
The following is the keynote address given by Lisa Sangoi, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Movement for Family Power…
Families who enter the child welfare system are often facing hardships caused by a myriad of social and economic factors—many created and promoted through systemic racism—that complicate and challenge parents’ ability to care for their children.
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