It is time to abolish the child welfare system in favor of something that is inherently anti-racist and truly prioritizes support for, not dissolution of, families.
How We endUP puts forth ideas about how we can, in community, improve support and care for children, youth, and families as we move towards the abolition of family policing.
Use this guide to analyze whether proposed reforms to family policing further entrench the family policing system or move us closer to the abolition of family policing.
The child welfare system is not a helping system. The system subjugates, surveils, regulates, and punishes families – families who are disproportionately Black and Indigenous.
We must maintain the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) as a necessary tool to ensure tribal sovereignty is respected.
How We Map was a two-day creative exploration created by Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sánchez for upEND Movement’s How We endUP convening in 2021.
This article discusses the intersection of Black feminism and the abolition of the child welfare system, and how Black feminism instructs us to be complicated in our analyses of systems of oppression.
This journal article describes the upEND Movement, a collaborative movement aimed at abolishing the child welfare system as we know it and reimagining how we as a society support child, family, and community safety and well-being.
By examining the roots of policies that separate families and their entanglement with racial prejudice and discrimination, this report makes the case that we must embrace an alternative path.