
Calendar
Offerings
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Huddle Up
Virtual gatherings led by MFP’s Peer Support Specialists for parents navigating active family policing cases.
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Sowing Seeds
Capacity offerings to support movement leaders in building 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.
Community Event Calendar
A calendar of events hosted by Movement for Family Power, our movement partners, and aligned organizations. Use this form to suggest additions to our Community Event Calendar.

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

upEND Movement: “A Vision of Grace” Virtual Screening
Join us for a virtual screening of A Vision of Grace, a collaboration with upEND Movement and Montrose Grace Place and produced by Rennob Productions.
This is a free, virtual event. Learn more about the project and upEND Movement's work to abolish the family policing system at www.upendmovement.org/grace
Where community becomes family, and art becomes a path to love and liberation.
A Vision of Grace is a powerful short documentary born from a collaboration between the upEND Movement and Montrose Grace Place. The film follows Youth Voices Empowered (YVE), a vibrant youth-led advocacy initiative amplifying the voices of young people experiencing housing insecurity in Houston.
Through an intimate lens, A Vision of Grace captures a series of art workshops led by conceptual artist Tay Butler in partnership with the upEND team. In these workshops, youth explore storytelling, memory, and identity while creating personal Zines to showcase and sell at Houston’s Zine Fest.
But this documentary is more than an art project—it's a deeply human portrait of resilience and radical care. Through candid interviews, the youth share their lived experiences with houselessness and family separation while celebrating the joy and healing they’ve found in community. Montrose Grace Place emerges as a central character in the film—a sanctuary offering safety, belonging, and the possibility of chosen family.
A Vision of Grace is a tribute to what it means to live abolition now. It highlights the urgent need to replace systems of punishment and separation with community-rooted care, showing what becomes possible when young people are seen, heard, and held in love.

Mirror Memoirs: Reconnecting & Mapping Our Needs for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
This event is hosted by Mirror Memoirs.
Every second Saturday, Mirror Memoirs will host our monthly Core Member meeting.
Our Co-Directors Amita and Jaden will lead a series of exercises and journal prompts reflecting on lessons learned from their own recent experiences navigating health and climate emergencies. Tangible safety and crisis planning tools will be included (e.g. how to create a power of attorney, a go bag, a care plan, and more).
Our monthly meetings are open to any BIPOC LGBTQI child sexual abuse survivors living on land claimed by the US.
To register, join our email list and we’ll send the link!

Injustice Reform Network: Until They See Us Too
This event is hosted by Injustice Reform Network.
Until They See Us Too is a community-driven event that centers the voices and experiences of women and girls impacted by incarceration. Through powerful storytelling, a keynote address, and open dialogue, this gathering invites us to listen, learn, and take action toward justice.
Join us for an afternoon of truth-telling, reflection, and connection. Whether you're directly impacted, an advocate, or simply ready to be part of the solution—this space is for you.

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

Give Us Back Our Children Philly: Take away our poverty, not our children
Every First Wednesday, 10-11am outside Dept of Human Services (DHS)
1515 Arch St (corner of 16th and Arch)
Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation int'l network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. Child welfare targets mothers & primary caregivers who are poor, Black/of color, disabled, DV survivors...
Money for caregiving would help families stay together.
More info: 215-848-1120 philly@allwomencount.net

Give Us Back Our Children Philly: Take away our poverty, not our children
Every First Wednesday, 10-11am outside Dept of Human Services (DHS)
1515 Arch St (corner of 16th and Arch)
Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation int'l network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. Child welfare targets mothers & primary caregivers who are poor, Black/of color, disabled, DV survivors...
Money for caregiving would help families stay together.
More info: 215-848-1120 philly@allwomencount.net

Give Us Back Our Children Philly: Take away our poverty, not our children
Every First Wednesday, 10-11am outside Dept of Human Services (DHS)
1515 Arch St (corner of 16th and Arch)
Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation int'l network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. Child welfare targets mothers & primary caregivers who are poor, Black/of color, disabled, DV survivors...
Money for caregiving would help families stay together.
More info: 215-848-1120 philly@allwomencount.net

Mandatory Reporters Against Mandated Reporting: Processing & Organizing Space
This event is hosted by Mandatory Reporters Against Mandatory Reporting.
This is a monthly organizing and processing space for social workers, social service and mental health workers, and others seeking to dismantle mandated reporting and end family policing.

Give Us Back Our Children Philly: Take away our poverty, not our children
Every First Wednesday, 10-11am outside Dept of Human Services (DHS)
1515 Arch St (corner of 16th and Arch)
Give Us Back Our Children/Philly, part of the Support Not Separation int'l network, is joining our sister groups in London and LA rallying outside family courts the first Wednesday of every month. Child welfare targets mothers & primary caregivers who are poor, Black/of color, disabled, DV survivors...
Money for caregiving would help families stay together.
More info: 215-848-1120 philly@allwomencount.net

Parents Supporting Parents NY: Mental Health & Community Care for Stolen Children
This event is hosted by Parents Supporting Parents NY in partnership with the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee.
Join Steering Committee Member Parents Supporting Parents NY for part two of a two-part Stolen Children’s Month webinar series on June 24th.
Hear directly from lived experts about the lasting trauma, grief, and mental health struggles inflicted on stolen children and their families.

Healthy & Free TN: Intersectionality in Family Policing System Abolition
This event is being hosted by Healthy & Free TN.
How do race, disability, gender, immigration status, and sexuality shape families’ experiences with the family policing system in Tennessee? Join Healthy and Free Tennessee alongside movement leaders for a powerful conversation to the intersections of family policing and systemic oppression – and how we organize toward abolition, healing, and family preservation.

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

Mandated Reporting is Not Neutral: Mandatory Reporting Harm Reduction for Birthworkers
This training is brought to you by the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and Accountable Communities Consortium.
Join us as we learn about the intersections of birthwork, mandatory reporting and family policing. This online training will discuss the history of mandatory reporting, harm reduction practices and strategies for supporting people experiencing violence and abuse.
While this training is suitable for birthworkers across the United States training content will include some Washington State specific information.
Thursday, June 26th 3-5pm PT/5-7pm CT/6-8pm
Registration is sliding scale to $25
This workshop will be presented in Zoom webinar format with opportunities for questions. We will be using zoom generated captions.
For questions please reach out to Shannon@accountablecommunities.com

Boston Stolen Children’s Month: Community Vigil
This event is hosted by the comrades of the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee in Boston.
It’s time to end state kidnapping of children. Boston is joining 18 cities & counting to host a vigil that will honor & mourn children stolen by the family policing, adoption, incarceration, & immigration systems. This is an abolitionist space.
Boston vigil will take place on Sunday June 22nd in the afternoon/early evening. (Exact time and place will be released later).

MFP & Partners: Teach In - Breaking Binaries: Queer Abolitionist Dreamscapes of Bodily Autonomy
This event is hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle.
In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Now, we are continuing the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with our movement partner, Elephant Circle.
Join our second virtual teach-in on June 17th: Breaking Binaries: Queer Abolitionist Dreamscapes of Bodily Autonomy.
An intergenerational worldbuilding session centering the wisdom of queer, trans, young people & parents. In this conversation, we will connect with community experts who are disrupting family policing, building roadmaps to bodily autonomy and joyfully dreaming a world where we are all free.
Spanish language interpretation will be provided for this event series.
SAVE THE DATES!
June 17
July 15
Aug 12
Teach-ins will be held at 12:30-2:00PM PT / 3:30-5:00PM ET on Zoom.

Mirror Memoirs: Reconnecting & Mapping Our Needs for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
This event is hosted by Mirror Memoirs.
Every second Saturday, Mirror Memoirs will host our monthly Core Member meeting.
Our Co-Directors Amita and Jaden will lead a series of exercises and journal prompts reflecting on lessons learned from their own recent experiences navigating health and climate emergencies. Tangible safety and crisis planning tools will be included (e.g. how to create a power of attorney, a go bag, a care plan, and more).
Our monthly meetings are open to any BIPOC LGBTQI child sexual abuse survivors living on land claimed by the US.
To register, join our email list and we’ll send the link!

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

MJCF: Coalition: 5th & Final Protest
This event is hosted by The MJCF: Coalition.
The MJCF: Coalition will host its Fifth and Final Protest in Denver, Colorado. This year’s protest centers around our powerful Letters to Stolen Loved Ones project and is guided by the theme: “Truth and Healing Through Narration.”
Saturday, June 7, 2025
10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
West Capitol Steps | 520 W Colfax Ave | Denver, Colorado
This will not be a street march. Instead, it will be a demonstration grounded in gratitude, reflection, and resistance. Together, we will uplift the voices of families and communities who continue to survive and resist state violence. This is a family-friendly event, and we encourage you to bring your loved ones, children, and friends as a visible show of solidarity and support.

Mandatory Reporters Against Mandated Reporting: Processing & Organizing Space
This event is hosted by Mandatory Reporters Against Mandatory Reporting.
This is a monthly organizing and processing space for social workers, social service and mental health workers, and others seeking to dismantle mandated reporting and end family policing.

Parents Supporting Parents NY: Mental Health & Community Care for Stolen Children
This event is hosted by Parents Supporting Parents NY in partnership with the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee.
Join Steering Committee Member Parents Supporting Parents NY for a two-part Stolen Children’s Month webinar series starting June 3rd!
Hear directly from lived experts about the lasting trauma, grief, and mental health struggles inflicted on stolen children and their families.

Stolen Children's Month: Kickoff Virtual Vigil & Rally
This event is being hosted by the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee.
Join us next Monday, June 2nd at 2PM ET to kickoff Stolen Children’s Month 2025! Our Steering Committee will host a virtual rally & vigil to honor children stolen by family policing, adoption, youth incarceration, and immigration systems.
This event will feature storytelling, calls to action, healing rituals, and a live vigil to name and uplift those impacted. Together, we will remember, resist, and reimagine. 🔥
➡️ RSVP: bit.ly/SCM-Kickoff
➡️ Learn more about Stolen Children’s Month: stolenchildrensmonth.com

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative: The Power of Words - Building Towards Non-Carceral Safety, Healing, & Justice
This event is hosted by the Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative (JBPC).
The Power of Words: Building Toward Non-Carceral Safety, Healing, and Justice is an interactive workshop launching and integrating our series of messaging tools! Over the past four years, JBPC has put together a messaging guide, zine, interview-based theater production, and now a podcast. Workshop participants will meet in small and large groups to discuss how punishment paradigms impact their organizing and activism, and to ideate and put into practice ways that JBPC messaging tools can make their work easier and more effective. We'll specifically have a section focused on reproductive justice and family policing that we think would be of interest to you all!
May 21, 2025 | 1:00-4:30pm
The People's Forum, 320 W 37th St, Manhattan
Lunch included!

MFP & Partners: Teach In - Hands Off Mamas: Disrupting the Criminalization of Birthing People Who Use Drugs
This event is hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle.
In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Now, we are continuing the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with our movement partner, Elephant Circle.
Join our second virtual teach-in on May 20th: Hands Off Mamas: Disrupting the Criminalization of Birthing People Who Use Drugs.
This teach-in will explore the demonization, criminalization, and separation of birthing people and their babies as a core feature of the Drug War–which employed our healthcare system as a key tool of surveillance and punishment, especially for Black mamas. Join us to discuss family policing as a maternal health crisis and how you can help end the criminalization of mamas who use drugs with our panelists:
* Chanel Porchia-Albert, Ancient Song
* Dinah Ortiz, National Survivors Union
* Karen Thompson, Pregnancy Justice
* Kimá Joy Taylor, Doing Right by Birth
* Miriam Mack, Movement for Family Power
Spanish language interpretation will be provided for this event series.
SAVE THE DATES!
June 17
July 15
Aug 12
Teach-ins will be held at 12:30-2:00PM PT / 3:30-5:00PM ET on Zoom.

MJCF Coalition: Love Letter Writing Sessions
This event series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.
These guided writing sessions are designed to provide emotional support, encouragement, and healing space for parents whose children were adopted through the child welfare system or by children disconnected from their families by the government. Writing can be a deeply emotional process, and these sessions help individuals process their trauma as they navigate the journey of storytelling and reconnection.
Join us as we reclaim narratives, honor family connections, and challenge the systems that have caused these separations.
Sessions held 2–3 times per month on Wednesdays, 4:00–5:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time)
Want to Submit a Letter? Or interested in scheduling a guided writing session?
Email MJ at: MJ@mjcfcoalition.com
Subject Line: Love Letter

Maternal Health, Dignity & Consent Act Advocacy Day
This event is hosted by the New York Informed Consent Coalition.
After Mother’s Day, join the Informed Consent Coalition for a rally, press conference, and meetings with lawmakers to fight for thousands of mothers, birthing people, and their newborns – who face violations to their bodily autonomy, traumatic investigations by “child protective services,” and family separation due to nonconsensual drug testing and screenings in medical settings. New York State must pass the Maternal Health, Dignity, and Consent Act (A.860 / S.845) this year!

Mirror Memoirs: Reconnecting & Mapping Our Needs for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
This event is hosted by Mirror Memoirs.
Every second Saturday, Mirror Memoirs will host our monthly Core Member meeting.
Our Co-Directors Amita and Jaden will lead a series of exercises and journal prompts reflecting on lessons learned from their own recent experiences navigating health and climate emergencies. Tangible safety and crisis planning tools will be included (e.g. how to create a power of attorney, a go bag, a care plan, and more).
Our monthly meetings are open to any BIPOC LGBTQI child sexual abuse survivors living on land claimed by the US.
To register, join our email list and we’ll send the link!

Black Mothers March
This event is hosted by Operation Stop CPS, African National Women’s Organization, InTuned Consulting, K.Adeniyi Law, Mothers Outreach Network, MJCF Coalition, Movement for Family Power, and upEND Movement.
It’s almost time for the fourth annual BLACK MOTHERS MARCH! Led by a national coalition of Black women-led organizations, including MFP, the Black Mothers March brings together Black mamas, families, organizers, and co-conspirators in solidarity against the family policing system.
Join us May 9th-11th in Washington DC for a full weekend of events—including an art exhibition, a community teach-in, and of course, the Black Mothers March. When? May 11, 2025
Where? Lafayette Park - Washington DC
Want to bring your base to the Black Mothers March? Or post on social media to invite your community? Check out our Organizing Toolkit. Inside, you will find organizing tips, social media graphics, and fundraising tools.

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

MJCF Coalition: Love Letter Writing Sessions
This event series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.
These guided writing sessions are designed to provide emotional support, encouragement, and healing space for parents whose children were adopted through the child welfare system or by children disconnected from their families by the government. Writing can be a deeply emotional process, and these sessions help individuals process their trauma as they navigate the journey of storytelling and reconnection.
Join us as we reclaim narratives, honor family connections, and challenge the systems that have caused these separations.
Sessions held 2–3 times per month on Wednesdays, 4:00–5:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time)
Want to Submit a Letter? Or interested in scheduling a guided writing session?
Email MJ at: MJ@mjcfcoalition.com
Subject Line: Love Letter

RadComms: Narrative Power Summit 2025
This event is hosted by RadComms and ReFrame.
The 2025 Narrative Power Summit will be held May 7-10, 2025. Location TBA.
NPS offers social justice communicators and movement workers an opportunity to connect and strengthen relationships, spark collaboration, generate new ideas, and engage in political and ideological learning. We look forward to welcoming a global community of narrative strategists, organizers, culture workers, and more to our hybrid summit in 2025.
Our deadline for applications is January 15, 2025 at 5 PM PT.
This space prioritizes voices, expertise, and experience of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, transgender, gender non-conforming, nonbinary, intersex (TGNCIi), queer, disabled, immigrant, cash poor, and others excluded from traditional establishment nonprofit spaces. We are especially interested in welcoming communicators who serve grassroots organizations, coalitions, networks, and other formations.

Mandatory Reporters Against Mandated Reporting: Processing & Organizing Space
This event is hosted by Mandatory Reporters Against Mandatory Reporting.
This is a monthly organizing and processing space for social workers, social service and mental health workers, and others seeking to dismantle mandated reporting and end family policing.

MJCF Coalition: Love Letter Writing Sessions
This event series is hosted by the MJCF Coalition.
These guided writing sessions are designed to provide emotional support, encouragement, and healing space for parents whose children were adopted through the child welfare system or by children disconnected from their families by the government. Writing can be a deeply emotional process, and these sessions help individuals process their trauma as they navigate the journey of storytelling and reconnection.
Join us as we reclaim narratives, honor family connections, and challenge the systems that have caused these separations.
Sessions held 2–3 times per month on Wednesdays, 4:00–5:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time)
Want to Submit a Letter? Or interested in scheduling a guided writing session?
Email MJ at: MJ@mjcfcoalition.com
Subject Line: Love Letter

Baltimore Action Legal Team: Lawyer Up - The Family Policing System
This event is hosted by the Baltimore Action Legal Team, Civil Rights Corps, Child First, Fathers Fighting for Fathers, Maryland Families Together, and Harford Heights Elementary School.
Join Natasha Khalfani from Maryland's Office of the Public Defender and Baltimore Action Legal Team for a Know Your Rights training followed by breakout discussions with organizations working to build alternatives to the family policing system and an introduction to OPD's Better Together program.

MFP & Partners: Teach In - Abolishing the Family Policing System: A Reproductive Justice Imperative
This event is hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle.
In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Now, we are continuing the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with our movement partner, Elephant Circle.
This series is designed to uplift and support the ways that folks are practicing family policing abolition now, while also deepening our understanding of the interconnected struggles within reproductive justice movements. We will focus on topics like pregnancy criminalization, the drug war, and the deportation machine, as well as trans liberation and welfare rights.
Join our first virtual teach-in on April 29th: Abolishing the Family Policing System: A Reproductive Justice Imperative.
Spanish language interpretation will be provided for this event series.
SAVE THE DATES!
April 29
May 20
June 17
July 15
Aug 12
Teach-ins will be held at 12:30-2:00PM PT / 3:30-5:00PM ET on Zoom.

Peer Support Space: Peer-Led Space for Adult Survivors of the Family Policing System
This group is hosted by Peer Support Space.
Join us every 2nd and 4th Thursday for a nonclinical, peer-led space facilitated by survivors of the family policing system for fellow survivors (18+). This is a confidential, affirming and peer led gathering for those who survived the family policing system as children (i.e. adoptees / survivors of adoption / survivors of child trafficking, foster kids / institutionalized, displaced kids / survivors of the foster or “foster” system, children in group homes / survivors of state-sanctioned captivity, survivors of indigenous boarding schools /cultural genocide /colonial indoctrination, survivors of ICE detention centers / detained youth / incarcerated minors / children of forced separation etc.) This is an abolitionist centered space. We exist to lower feelings of isolation and to build a support system with other survivors. We uplift that the family policing system is a violent, oppressive, racist, carceral system and this space is centered around those who have survived it. That being stated, we do not allow any current or striving to be police or family police into the space. Join us as we build community and support one another, and hold space for each other to talk about our experience in an affirming space. This resource is made possible by a partnership with Peer Support Space

Westchester Justice for Families: Understanding Your Parental Rights
This program is hosted by Westchester Justice For Families, facilitated by Legal Services of the Hudson Valley with support from the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, and 914United.
This session is designed to empower parents with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of the family court and child welfare systems. Participants will gain a clear understanding of their parental rights, legal responsibilities, and the steps they can take to protect their families. We will cover key topics such as due process, legal representation, case timelines, and how to advocate for yourself effectively within the system. Whether you are currently involved in a case or want to be prepared for potential challenges, this session will provide valuable insights and strategies to help you assert your rights and maintain your role in your child's life. Lunch will be provided.
When? Saturday, April 19th / 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Where? Yonkers Riverfront Library / 1 Larkin Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701