This event is hosted by the People’s Alliance and Carolina Parent Defenders.

Join the People’s Alliance’s Child and Family Action Team for a presentation and co-design session with Carolina Parent Defenders as we dream of what strong parent representation could look like for families in Durham.

When? October 21, 2024 at 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Where? People's Solidarity Hub
1805 Chapel Hill Rd
Durham, NC 27707

This series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.

This session welcomes biological parents and all family members, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews, offering them tools and information to effectively navigate complex family dynamics.

Held every 4th Wednesday every month.

This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.

A nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow adult survivors (18+) (i.e. adoptees, former foster kids, etc). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

Join us every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM EST as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our lived experience in an affirming space.

Community Norms

• This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for adult survivors of the child welfare system (i.e. adoptees, foster kids, etc) - not a clinical support group or group therapy (or intended to be a replacement for such)

• In this space we honor people’s experiences - this is not a space to debate, challenge, or resist someone's lived experience as a survivor.

• Give one another an equal chance to take up space.

• Honor that what is shared here stays here.

• Meet your needs as you see fit.

• When possible, please provide content or trigger warnings for things that may be inflammatory.

• We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

This event is hosted by Mother’s Outreach Network.

You are invited to a lunch and live broadcast of a discussion on Mother’s Outreach Network’s (MON) fight against poverty-driven child and family separation among Black mothers in low-income families across the District. The discussion will include a conversation with independent researchers Dr. Jim Greiner and Mandy Mobley Li, Esq, of the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School, who are evaluating our pilot programs. If you can’t make the lunch in person, there will be an online option!

MON will exclusively share the early lessons from the pioneering Mother Up Guaranteed Income Research Pilot conducted for MON by the Access to Justice Lab. This program investigates the hypothesis that poverty is a primary cause of the problems that trigger the involvement of D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency (“CFSA”). This is MON’s ongoing pilot program that provides monthly direct cash assistance to Black mothers in Washington D.C. currently or recently involved with CFSA and in danger of being separated from their children. Mother’s Outreach Network’s hope is to ease financial burdens on mothers, prevent further punitive interventions from the child welfare system, and keep families together. 

This event is hosted by Healthy and Free Tennessee (HFTN) in collaboration with the Beyond Roe Collective.

The Pregnancy Decriminalization Teach-In will be on Tuesday October 29th from 6-8 PM in East Nashville, TN. Location address will be released to registered participants the day before the event. Food will be provided.

What is pregnancy criminalization? 

When we say “pregnancy criminalization” we are talking about the ways in which people face punishment for the outcomes of their pregnancies, including abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, or live birth. Pregnancy Justice defines pregnancy criminalization as an instance in which someone is either arrested for reasons related to their pregnancy, or where the terms of their bail, sentencing, or probation are heightened because they became pregnant after being charged with an unrelated crime.

Goals for the teach-in include: 

+ Define how reproductive justice and abolition work are intertwined

+ Articulate the danger and harms of pregnancy criminalization

+ Assess resource availability and gaps for Nashville

+ Talk about resisting pregnancy criminalization

+ Building resource hubs for Nashville in communities that are typically on the front lines of pregnancy criminalization, and are more likely to experience state surveillance during (and after) their pregnancies

This event is hosted by Give Us Back Our Children Philadelphia.

Join Give Us Back Our Children Philly at 10AM every first Wednesday of the month outside Family Court (1501 Arch St - 15th St. entrance)

Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation International Network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. We are demanding the implementation of recommendations from City Council Special Committee on Child Separations, including:

·       Poverty is not neglect

·       Open Family Court

·       No removing children from domestic violence survivors

·       Drug use is not child abuse

Contact 215-848-1120 / philly@allwomencount.net for more information.

This event series is hosted by Family Matters 1st of Boston.

Are you impacted by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and want to transform your pain into purpose by driving change on a larger scale? Are you an advocate for children and families? Are you an attorney, policy expert, or social worker looking to make a difference?

Join Family Matters 1st’s Legislative & Statewide Advocacy Meetings designed to empower families and allies to create real, systemic change.Here’s what we do

• Write and Support Bills: Help draft legislation and advocate for family-centered policies.

• Prepare Testimony: Learn how to craft powerful, impactful testimony.

• Lead Public Education Campaigns: Raise awareness and educate the public on the issues that matter most.

• Facilitate Accountability Meetings: Engage directly with attorneys, legislators, and the judicial system to advocate for transparency and reform.

• Strategic Planning: Work together to develop long-term strategies for family defense and child welfare reform.

Meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month from 6:00–7:00 PM ET.

To RSVP, email FamilyMattersBoston@gmail.com.

This series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.

This webinar offers crucial guidance and resources for biological parents whose parental rights have been terminated by child welfare or child protection services courts through dependency and neglect proceedings.

Held every 2nd Wednesday every month.

This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.

A nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow adult survivors (18+) (i.e. adoptees, former foster kids, etc). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

Join us every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM EST as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our lived experience in an affirming space.

Community Norms

• This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for adult survivors of the child welfare system (i.e. adoptees, foster kids, etc) - not a clinical support group or group therapy (or intended to be a replacement for such)

• In this space we honor people’s experiences - this is not a space to debate, challenge, or resist someone's lived experience as a survivor.

• Give one another an equal chance to take up space.

• Honor that what is shared here stays here.

• Meet your needs as you see fit.

• When possible, please provide content or trigger warnings for things that may be inflammatory.

• We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

UPDATE: We’ve reached full capacity! We have plans to livestream the opening and closing keynotes. Stay tuned for links. To facilitate open dialogue, a fully virtual option is not currently available.

You are invited to Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing, a symposium hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law, If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, and Movement for Family Power.

When? November 15, 2024 

Where? Berkeley, CA 

Please join us for a full day of panel discussions and critical conversations interrogating the family policing system–or the so-called “child welfare” system–as a site of reproductive punishment and control, particularly for Black, Latine, and Indigenous families, and other marginalized communities. We are thrilled to share that our keynote speaker will be Dorothy Roberts, thought leader, author, and professor–and our closing speaker will be Amanda Wallace, movement leader and founder of Operation Stop CPS.

The post-Roe landscape has amplified the connection between attacks on reproductive autonomy and family integrity. More so than ever, people are being forced to remain pregnant and subsequently punished by the family police for raising children without the necessary support or resources. Through practices like test-and-report and mandated reporting, the family policing system also deters birthing people from seeking the reproductive health care they need. 

We are calling on advocates to unite in advancing a shared vision for reproductive justice that includes an end to family policing.

This series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.

This group is dedicated to families who have experienced involvement with the family policing system and have been reunified. It provides a supportive space focused on rebuilding family trust, cohesiveness, and promoting healing.

Held every 3rd Wednesday every month.

This series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.

This session welcomes biological parents and all family members, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews, offering them tools and information to effectively navigate complex family dynamics.

Held every 4th Wednesday every month.

This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.

A nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow adult survivors (18+) (i.e. adoptees, former foster kids, etc). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

Join us every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM EST as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our lived experience in an affirming space.

Community Norms

• This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for adult survivors of the child welfare system (i.e. adoptees, foster kids, etc) - not a clinical support group or group therapy (or intended to be a replacement for such)

• In this space we honor people’s experiences - this is not a space to debate, challenge, or resist someone's lived experience as a survivor.

• Give one another an equal chance to take up space.

• Honor that what is shared here stays here.

• Meet your needs as you see fit.

• When possible, please provide content or trigger warnings for things that may be inflammatory.

• We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

This event is hosted by Give Us Back Our Children Philadelphia.

Join Give Us Back Our Children Philly at 10AM every first Wednesday of the month outside Family Court (1501 Arch St - 15th St. entrance)

Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation International Network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. We are demanding the implementation of recommendations from City Council Special Committee on Child Separations, including:

·       Poverty is not neglect

·       Open Family Court

·       No removing children from domestic violence survivors

·       Drug use is not child abuse

Contact 215-848-1120 / philly@allwomencount.net for more information.

This event series is hosted by Family Matters 1st of Boston.

Are you impacted by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and want to transform your pain into purpose by driving change on a larger scale? Are you an advocate for children and families? Are you an attorney, policy expert, or social worker looking to make a difference?

Join Family Matters 1st’s Legislative & Statewide Advocacy Meetings designed to empower families and allies to create real, systemic change.Here’s what we do

• Write and Support Bills: Help draft legislation and advocate for family-centered policies.

• Prepare Testimony: Learn how to craft powerful, impactful testimony.

• Lead Public Education Campaigns: Raise awareness and educate the public on the issues that matter most.

• Facilitate Accountability Meetings: Engage directly with attorneys, legislators, and the judicial system to advocate for transparency and reform.

• Strategic Planning: Work together to develop long-term strategies for family defense and child welfare reform.

Meetings are held every second Wednesday of the month from 6:00–7:00 PM ET.

To RSVP, email FamilyMattersBoston@gmail.com.

This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.

A nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow adult survivors (18+) (i.e. adoptees, former foster kids, etc). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

Join us every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM EST as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our lived experience in an affirming space.

Community Norms

• This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for adult survivors of the child welfare system (i.e. adoptees, foster kids, etc) - not a clinical support group or group therapy (or intended to be a replacement for such)

• In this space we honor people’s experiences - this is not a space to debate, challenge, or resist someone's lived experience as a survivor.

• Give one another an equal chance to take up space.

• Honor that what is shared here stays here.

• Meet your needs as you see fit.

• When possible, please provide content or trigger warnings for things that may be inflammatory.

• We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

This series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.

This session welcomes biological parents and all family members, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, nieces, and nephews, offering them tools and information to effectively navigate complex family dynamics.

Held every 4th Wednesday every month.

This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.

A nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow adult survivors (18+) (i.e. adoptees, former foster kids, etc). We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.

Join us every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30PM EST as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our lived experience in an affirming space.

Community Norms

• This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for adult survivors of the child welfare system (i.e. adoptees, foster kids, etc) - not a clinical support group or group therapy (or intended to be a replacement for such)

• In this space we honor people’s experiences - this is not a space to debate, challenge, or resist someone's lived experience as a survivor.

• Give one another an equal chance to take up space.

• Honor that what is shared here stays here.

• Meet your needs as you see fit.

• When possible, please provide content or trigger warnings for things that may be inflammatory.

• We uplift that it’s an oppressive, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it.