NEWS
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.
The deadline for art, poetry, and short fiction submissions has been extended to January 31, 2024. Read More
Ending foster care means not just the closing of foster homes but prioritizing the building of critical systems of support for families and communities.
October 31, 2023
The deadline for art, poetry, and short fiction submissions has been extended to January 31, 2024.
Read MoreOctober 27, 2023
There is a place for all of us to resist family policing and carcerality, through practice, policy, and language.
Read MoreWe stand in solidarity with Palestinians and the masses all over the world who are rising up, demanding freedom for Palestine and ultimately, for us all.
This report aims to highlight for the Human Rights Committee key areas in which the U.S. government has failed to uphold its human rights commitments under the ICCPR regarding its separation of children from their parents and families, and the resulting harms inflicted on them by the immigration and family policing systems.
Josie Duffy Rice, journalist, writer, law school graduate, and podcast host will talk with Alan Dettlaff about his new book, “Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System.”
Our goal is to foster a deeper understanding of what it truly means to engage in abolition work on a daily basis.
ICWA is an essential tool to maintain the preservation of Indigenous families and to ensure tribal sovereignty is respected.
By delving into the historical roots of the system and examining the immense harm inflicted upon families and communities, The upEND Podcast makes a case for the complete reimagining of how society cares for children and families.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared this PRIDE month that we are in a national state of emergency for LGBTQIA+ Americans.
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.
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.
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
Now Is the Time for Abolition, the Imprint, June 22, 2020