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We are working towards a new standard of supporting ALL families.
As members of the upEND Movement, we are working towards a new vision of care for children and families.
The upEND Movement advocates for the abolishment of the existing child welfare system, more accurately described as a family policing system. Unfortunately, we cannot provide advice or assistance with individual cases.
The upEND Movement works to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their parents is no longer an acceptable intervention for families in need. This movement involves making the need for the current system of foster care obsolete and re-imagining the care and well-being for children that is designed by and for families and communities and results in critical and effective community-based support.
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
Press Articles
- 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
Press Contact:
Connease Warren
Director of Communications
cawarren@uh.edu
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