Join us May 11, 2022 for this historic event!
For more information, visit www.FamiliesResist.com
The family policing system in the United States, aka Child Protective Services or CPS, has waged war on the American family. Black, Indigenous, and Poor families are especially vulnerable and as such are overrepresented in the system. Nationwide, black children account for only 14% of the population but represent nearly 25% of all CPS cases. Meanwhile, about half of all indigenous children will experience a child welfare investigation before they turn 18. And finally, since poverty is conflated with neglect and parental unfitness by the “child protection” system, poverty is the single most important predictor of placement in foster care and the amount of time spent there.
Moreover, the system lacks accountability, transparency, and oversight. Families are all too often unnecessarily destroyed and children are frequently placed in foster and group homes where conditions are worse than in the homes they were removed from. It is incredibly traumatizing to remove a child from everything they have ever known or loved. There is no reason why a family should be destroyed. Children should be protected and supported by the government by providing services to keep families together instead of assuming parents inability to care.
This must end. The time is now to come together and RESIST together, and to demand real and lasting change. Children deserve better and families belong together.
Please join us at the California State Capitol, West Steps, on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022.
Assembly Member Isaac Bryan will be one of the speakers at the Rally!!!!
1pm: Rally and Protest March. (This is the main event)
10am-12pm: Legislative Visits.
If you intend on participating in the legislative visits from 10-12, please register so you can stay updated on the schedule.
Philosophy
Eradicating Core Systems of Injustice and Oppression
Eradicating Core Systems of Injustice and Oppression
Eradicating Core Systems of Injustice and Oppression
Forced separation of families and children by Family Courts and Child Protection Agencies is a tool of oppression and perpetuates injustice and harm upon marginalized communities. Communities of color, the poor, the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, survivors of rape and sexual abuse, those without homes, those without support netwo
Forced separation of families and children by Family Courts and Child Protection Agencies is a tool of oppression and perpetuates injustice and harm upon marginalized communities. Communities of color, the poor, the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, survivors of rape and sexual abuse, those without homes, those without support networks, parents with disabled children- are all vulnerable. Foster care is punishment. Foster care is cruel and unusual torture. Foster care is prison. End the incarceration of families. Rise up. Take back our children.
Together WE CAN.
Eradicating Core Systems of Injustice and Oppression
Eradicating Core Systems of Injustice and Oppression
We are powerhouse movement builders that mobilize system-impacted families to fight for systemic change and implement policy reform. We seek to develop and uplift the leadership of the communities we serve, to advocate for the preservation of families, the restoration of parental rights, and also to increase access to justice and parent-c
We are powerhouse movement builders that mobilize system-impacted families to fight for systemic change and implement policy reform. We seek to develop and uplift the leadership of the communities we serve, to advocate for the preservation of families, the restoration of parental rights, and also to increase access to justice and parent-child visitation for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated families.
Disrupt Systemic Racism and Classism.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). End federal adoption incentives.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). End federal adoption incentives.
Poor communities and especially poor communities of color are disproportionately targeted by child welfare and family court services. Poverty DOES NOT equal neglect nor should poor parents unable to pay child support to the government be jailed. Communities of color are reported on at far higher rates not because they abuse more often, bu
Poor communities and especially poor communities of color are disproportionately targeted by child welfare and family court services. Poverty DOES NOT equal neglect nor should poor parents unable to pay child support to the government be jailed. Communities of color are reported on at far higher rates not because they abuse more often, but because they are over-policed and over-surveilled. Let's end this war on poverty and support families rather than destroying them.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). End federal adoption incentives.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). End federal adoption incentives.
Repeal the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). End federal adoption incentives.
ASFA, enacted in 1997, shifted the focus of the American child welfare system from family preservation to permanence, creating perverse incentives for states to remove children from their homes and adopt them out. For mothers and young mothers, the termination of parental rights is perpetual punishment. This perpetual punishment is even
ASFA, enacted in 1997, shifted the focus of the American child welfare system from family preservation to permanence, creating perverse incentives for states to remove children from their homes and adopt them out. For mothers and young mothers, the termination of parental rights is perpetual punishment. This perpetual punishment is even more profound after release from prison, mothers come home to empty cribs and painful memories that never fade. Families belong together in order to sow justice, healing, kinship, and love. Rise up. Repeal ASFA.
Who We Are
Mission and Vision
Our mission is to end the incarceration of families; to preserve, strengthen, and uplift families; and to transform the systems that perpetuate cycles of poverty, trauma, and family separation. We do this through a community organizing model that empowers, educates, and develops the leadership of system-impacted families, by holding California's child protection system, family court system, and judiciary accountable, and by implementing policy change. Our work lifts stigmas and biases, shifts public perceptions, and creates a space for those struggling through the family court and child welfare systems and also for those at the intersections of child welfare, child loss, and criminal justice.
OUR LEADERSHIP AND MEMBERSHIP BASE
Our leadership consists exclusively of those who have been impacted by the child welfare and/or criminal injustice systems. We - each of us survivors and fighters -truly understand that poverty and corruption are the beast that feeds the prison and foster care systems, that poverty and corruption are both the root and the endless perpetuation of these systems. Our leadership and membership base represents diverse backgrounds and come from all walks of life. And, we proudly base-build in the poorest areas and outreach to those on the very fringes of society: the extreme poor, the homeless, lgbtq, disabled and mentally-ill- because we believe that if we can inspire the most downtrodden in all of society to rise up and demand change, then we will have an army that will be unstoppable. We are determined. We never ever give up. We are California Rise (formerly Parents Against CPS Corruption)
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