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.
Reclaiming Safety for Children Whose Parents Use Substances
The authors challenge the family policing system’s assumptions that parental drug use automatically equals harm to a child. They propose concrete steps that hold families together and meet material needs.
The Demand Will Always Be Abolition: On Ending ICE and Borders
The criminalization of immigration must end.
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.
upEND Demands the Abolition of ICE and Immigration Detention
Family policing abolition includes immigrant justice, and upEND demands the abolition of ICE and an end to immigrant detention, deportation, and surveillance.
Breaking Down Family Policing Copaganda in the New ‘Lilo & Stitch’
Set in Hawai’i, against the backdrop of violent family separation of Indigenous families by the child welfare system, the film is poised to impact the way millions of people think about family policing and the termination of parental rights.