What We Do
Our Approach
Movement for Family Power shifts narratives, breaks silos with aligned movements, and supports grassroots and systems-impacted activists by facilitating connection, building capacity, and cultivating care.
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Connection
Deepening strategic partnerships and alignment through political education, convenings, and collaborative experiments.
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Capacity
Supporting systems-impacted activists by providing technical assistance, including skills-based training, fundraising, and leadership development.
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Care
Cultivating community care and healing justice by meeting the emergent and ongoing needs of those impacted by family policing.
Our Work
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Technical Assistance
Supporting grassroots organizers and advocates through skill-based training and organizational development, including website creation and grant writing support.
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Political Imagination
Building informational power through webinars, strategy convenings, cross-movement summits, and storytelling campaigns.
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Movement Mapping
Growing the movement by offering an organization directory and resource library, and facilitating coalition meetings and movement syncs.
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Healing Justice
Meeting the immediate and long-term needs of our community through mutual aid, peer office hours, healing retreats, and conflict resolution tools.
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Frontline Defense
Defending families and grassroots organizers facing retaliation through bail funds, attorney referrals, digital organizing, and court support.
Current Events
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Huddle Up
Virtual gatherings led by MFP’s Peer Support Specialist and Community Curator for parents navigating active family policing cases.
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Sowing Seeds
Workshops led by MFP’s Capacity Coach for movement leaders to build thriving organizations in defense of families.
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Soul Food
Holistic healing sessions led by MFP’s Healers in Residence to nourish the souls of Movement Warriors.
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Movement Syncs
Collaborative space for abolitionists to strategize and support our collective work toward freedom.
Collaborative Resources
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Resource Library
A curated collection of abolitionist materials from Movement for Family Power, our allies, and other advocates, scholars, and lived experts.
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Movement Map (Coming Soon!)
A national map of organizations working to end family policing and build a world where all families can thrive.
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Community Calendar
A calendar of events hosted by Movement for Family Power, our movement partners, and aligned organizations.
Featured Publications
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Fiscal Sponsors Supporting Movements for Justice
Collecting information on fiscal sponsors currently accepting applications and resources for becoming a 501(c)(3) organization.
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Survival Until Revolution
Exploring how mandated reporting functions to police BIPOC young people and children.
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Drug Tests Are Not Parenting Tests
Highlighting actionable steps to end the surveillance and criminalization of parents who use drugs.
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How the Foster System Has Become Ground Zero for the US Drug War
Documenting the intersection of the foster system and the drug war.
Incubated Campaigns
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Informed Consent NY
The Informed Consent New York Coalition works to end the drug testing and screening of perinatal people and their newborns without informed consent.
MFP is a founding member of the Informed Consent Campaign. We incubated the campaign for several years, building the infrastructure for a self-sustaining coalition. Now, the campaign operates with its own steering committee of leaders, with MFP remaining as a close community partner.
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Repeal ASFA
The Repeal ASFA Campaign works to remove financial incentives and expedited timelines that permanently separate families and sever sacred familial bonds.
MFP incubated the Repeal ASFA Campaign for several years. Now, the campaign is self-sustaining with its own Steering Committee of leaders directly impacted by family separation, and MFP remains a close community partner.