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.