Module 6 - upEND Movement

Module Six addresses the intentional failure of the family policing system’s reform efforts. These reforms are used by the family policing system as a mirage to reassure the public it is aware of its challenges and is responding to these challenges. Yet despite no evidence of success or meaningful change over decades, these reforms continue due to the myth of benevolence and indispensability the family policing system has created.

Ultimately, these reforms are designed to fail in order to maintain the oppression the family policing system was designed to produce. This module highlights recent reforms that have been and continue to be embraced by family policing systems even though they have been proven to not work, and in some cases, to result in increased racial disparities.

Listen to the accompanying episode of The upEND Podcast

Blind Removals

To Transform Child Welfare, Take Race Out of the Equation, Jessica Pryce

Color Blind Ambition: The Idea of Removing Race from Child Removal Decisions is Growing, Despite Some Skepticism, The Imprint

Predictive Analytics

Family Surveillance by Algorithm: The Rapidly Spreading Tools Few Have Heard Of, ACLU

Uncharted Waters: Data Analytics and Child Protection in Los Angeles, The Imprint

Experts Discuss Pros and Cons of Predictive Risk Tools in Child Welfare Practice, McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research

Family First Prevention Services Act

The White Supremacy Hydra: How the Family First Prevention Services Act Reifies Pathology, Control, and Punishment in the Family Regulation System, Columbia Journal of Race and Law

MODULE SIX

Blind Removals

Predictive Analytics

Family First Prevention Services Act

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