CFCC's December Newsletter Focuses on CFCC 2023 Symposium The Harm of Removal to Children, Parents, and Communities. Read the full article and subscribe to future communications. conta.cc/3TwMl66

The most absurd practice, charging parents child support when the state is also paying foster care agencies for the care of the children, pushing parents further into poverty and delaying reunification. Nice work, California!

We love this.

And in case you missed it, Joyce and Shanta are on our most recent episode of the upEND Podcast. Joyce McMillan Shanta Trivedi

Listen on your favorite podcast app: upendmovement.org/episode1-5/

'Any system that purposefully withholds the rights of families from them is a system that is looking to take advantage of those rights.”⁦⁦Joyce McMillan⁩. If CPS contacts a parent, they deserve to know the consequences of “voluntary” cooperation npr.org/2023/11/30/121…

As much as I love when my kids come home with these cute things around the holidays, I know how painful they are for others.

Educators, Just a gentle reminder that the family tree activity over the holidays-a particularly grief filled time for many-is really hard on many kids and parents.

During this ceasefire, unexpectedly, Dozens of injuries arrived at our hospital with direct gunshot wounds to the chest and upper thighs from Israeli snipers who targeted civilians while they were inspecting their homes that were bombed and evacuating from them.

Proud of our sister, Heather Warnken of UBalt Law Center for Criminal Justice Reform for this incredible testimony at the USCCR. Watch her at 2:32:22.

I often focus on the harm of removal but this ProPublica article reminds us about the harms of the investigation process. Families deserve to know their rights to avoid intrusion. Support this bill in NY! Maryland, our version is coming this session.propublica.org/article/nyc-ch…

Yesterday a student jokingly called me “soft” and I recoiled in horror. But then I wondered why I felt that being soft was a bad thing for a professor? Especially when the world is so horrible. Why have we decided that being tough is better than being kind? #AcademicTwitter

Have you checked out our convening schedule yet?

🔗 upendmovement.org/2023/09/01/how…

Featuring josie duffy rice, Alan Dettlaff, connease, Sydnie Dan'el Mares, Kirsten West Savali, Takara, @shantatrivedi, #CarringtonBuze , #TaraUrs , Maya Pendleton, @micahinatl, @ash_bash23 #EricaHubbard , and Houston Abolitionist Collective

Join me, Tara Urs and Carrington Buze at the upEND Movement’s convening in Houston or online to talk about policy changes that reduce harm caused by family policing. See you there!

Great piece in the The Baltimore Sun from Maryland Legal Aid's Amee Vora '...[O]btaining a divorce is not a disgrace, but an indispensable and unqualified right of all spouses, as well as a lifeline for survivors of marital abuse.' bit.ly/46aG1od

Sending so much love to our Morgan State University fam today.