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We Say “Abolition”–In Solidarity With Those Who Are Harmed by the Child Welfare System

August 20, 2026

They said we were misguided to use the word “abolition” in our work. We wrote a response.

Revolutionary Social Work Podcast: Abolish Family Policing

Alan Dettlaff didn’t use the word abolition until 2018 — the year he invited Angela Davis to speak to his students and started reading abolitionist theory. What he found was that everything he had read about prisons applied equally to child welfare. In this episode of the Revolutionary Social Work Podcast, Alan joins Ace and […]

Amicus Brief Successful in New Jersey Supreme Court

These cases highlight the intersections of family policing, the criminal legal system, and the inherent violence of mandated reporting.

Mothers Outreach Network Reaches Next Phase in Guaranteed Income Pilot

By ensuring families have direct, unconditional financial support, this initiative helps prevent unnecessary state intervention.

DC’s Militarization Shows How Policing Targets Black Youth

The current “takeover” of DC has led to federal agents terrorizing DC’s majority Black neighborhoods.

Reclaiming Safety for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

Drawing on the wisdom of survivors, Asgarian posits powerful questions that challenge us to respond more humanely to child sexual harm in ways that prioritize youth agency, center healing, and hold promise for ending intergenerational cycles of harm, silence, pain, and shame.

Reflections on upEND’s 5th Birthday

Five years ago, around Juneteenth—a celebration of delayed but hard-won freedom—a small collective of insiders-turned-abolitionists planted the seeds of upEND.