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 a powerhouse movement of builders that mobilize impacted families to fight for systemic change and implement policy reform. We seek to develop and uplift the communities we serve, to advocate for the preservation of families, the restoration of parental rights, and to increase access to parent-child visitation for at risk, 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 those of color are disproportionately targeted by child welfare and family court services. Poverty and its effects DO NOT justify 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 of
Poor communities and especially those of color are disproportionately targeted by child welfare and family court services. Poverty and its effects DO NOT justify 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)
#RiseUp
Los Angeles, California. WWW.HUNTERSLAW.ORG
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