Initiative
upEND Movement
The upEND Movement is a collaborative movement that works to abolish the existing child welfare system, which is built on a model of surveillance and separation and is more accurately described as a family policing system.
Abolition requires both ending this oppressive system AND imagining and creating new community-based ways of keeping children safe and protected in their homes and communities. In this way, abolition is not about simply ending the child welfare system; it is about creating the conditions in society where the need for a child welfare system is obsolete.
About the Movement
Through research, storytelling, and the support of grassroots advocacy, upEND builds public interest in the abolition of the child welfare system and engages powerful voices in changing policy and narrative. We use digital spaces and on-the-ground partnerships to reach influential advocates in this work.
upEND also co-designs policies, practices, supports, and research that support families in thriving and remaining together.
upendmovement.org
The full movement site — resources, reports, and ways to get involved.
Visit upendmovement.org →
upEND Key Resources and Publications
Resources & Publications
How We endUP: A Future Without Family Policing
How We endUP offers ideas about how we can, in community, move toward abolition of family policing — for those committed to ending the harms done to Black, Indigenous, and Latinx families by the family policing system.
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Framework for Evaluating Reformist Reforms versus Abolitionist Steps to End the Family Policing System
This document provides a framework for analyzing whether proposed reforms to family policing further entrench the system or move us closer to abolition.
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Help Is NOT on the Way: How Family Policing Perpetuates State Directed Terror
An analysis of how the family policing system perpetuates harm rather than providing safety, and what genuine alternatives must look like.
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Get Involved
For partnership or media inquiries related to the upEND Movement, please reach out directly.
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