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.
BLOG POST
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.
PRESS RELEASE
Protect the Indian Child Welfare Act
November 1, 2022
ICWA protects Indigenous kids by keeping them in the care of extended family or tribes whenever possible.
BLOG
The Power of Co-Opting: Language Is Changing, But Will It Change the Status Quo?
April 7, 2022
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.
PRESS RELEASE
upEND Statement on Texas Governor’s Trans Youth Directive
April 7, 2022
The upEND Movement opposes any efforts made to represent gender-affirming healthcare as child abuse.
BLOG
Reproductive Justice Demands the End of Family Policing
March 3, 2022
Communities gathering to abolish the family policing system are continuing the ongoing struggle against reproductive oppression.
BLOG
Finding Space to Imagine: How White Supremacy Culture Stifles Creativity
August 11, 2021
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?
PRESS RELEASE
New Movement Seeks to upEND the Child Welfare System and Create Anti-Racist Supports for Children and Families
June 19, 2020
Announcing a collaborative movement aimed at protecting Black, Brown, and Native children and reimagining how we serve and support families.
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How Is That Legal? Podcast
No More Car Seats
July 6, 2022
Alan Dettlaff breaks down the carceral logic that drives the state to remove children from their parents and lays out specific ways policymakers can shift power and resources to families.
Buzzfeed News
“It’s Like A Leech On Me”: Child Abuse Registries Punish Unsuspecting Parents Of Color
April 27, 2022
Millions of parents have been placed on these lists, often for the vague offense of “neglect.” The consequences can last for decades.
Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast
What Did Child Welfare Learn from 2020 – upEnding Systemic Racism
January 15, 2021
This episode features Maya Pendleton discusses how agencies can objectively review their policies and approaches and the rise of a movement to abolish the current system in favor of one that provides greater support to families.
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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