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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.
Recent Posts
Abolitionist Steps to Build a Better World
March 22, 2023
Reforms are ineffective at combating racism and harm in part because they do not intend to, but also because they begin with the wrong presumptions.
No Coincidence: Black Family Separations Then and Now
February 16, 2023
Black families faced an incomprehensible level of pain, anger, confusion, and powerlessness during enslavement. Sadly, when speaking with Black families who have had their children forcibly and involuntarily removed by the family policing system today, too little has changed.
We Know Investing In Families Works. Why Are We Still Investing in Harm?
November 15, 2022
The family policing system’s punitive approach does not – and cannot – ever authentically heal or prevent anything.
Protect the Indian Child Welfare Act
ICWA protects Indigenous kids by keeping them in the care of extended family or tribes whenever possible.
The Power of Co-Opting: Language Is Changing, But Will It Change the Status Quo?
When we call a system that surveils, regulates, punishes, and forcibly separates families a “child welfare system,” we misconstrue that system’s purpose and actions.
upEND Statement on Texas Governor’s Trans Youth Directive
The upEND Movement opposes any efforts made to represent gender-affirming healthcare as child abuse.
Reproductive Justice Demands the End of Family Policing
Communities gathering to abolish the family policing system are continuing the ongoing struggle against reproductive oppression.
Finding Space to Imagine: How White Supremacy Culture Stifles Creativity
How do we collectively and collaboratively create new ways of supporting and caring for families without replicating the coercive structure, surveillance, and separation in other forms?
New Movement Seeks to upEND the Child Welfare System and Create Anti-Racist Supports for Children and Families
Announcing a collaborative movement aimed at protecting Black, Brown, and Native children and reimagining how we serve and support families.
upEND Featured In
CBS Sunday Morning
December 4, 2022
Houston Chronicle
November 11, 2022
How Is That Legal? Podcast
July 6, 2022
Buzzfeed News
April 27, 2022
What Did Child Welfare Learn From 2020?, January 15, 2021, Child Information Gateway Podcast
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
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