This Event is hosted by Family Preservation Project

Keeping Families Together: A Family Regulation System 101 for Doulas Supporting Disabled Parents

This training focuses on supporting and advocating for Disabled people during pregnancy, birth, and parenthood who are impacted by the family regulation system.

Where? Virtual Via Zoon

When Wednesday, July 22 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET

This event is hosted by PROPUBLICA

More than a year into Trump’s second term, immigration officials have stepped up enforcement. Groundbreaking investigations by ProPublica have uncovered the scale of this shift and its impact on children.

Our reporting found ICE is deporting an increased number of unaccompanied minors, thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 children were doused with chemical agents.

Join us for a virtual event where our reporting team will discuss what is driving the administration’s efforts and what lies ahead.

Where? Virtual

When? July 21 4PM EST

This event was hosted by Emergent Fund

This workshop offers an introduction to direct action and its implementation, affinity groups and their formation, security culture, and a discussion on self-care and community care. This workshop is meant to prepare participants to engage in or begin planning their actions. 

Access info: Closed captioning and Language Interpretation will be available for this virtual 2 hour training.

This event series is hosted by Mirror Memoirs.

You are invited to Mirror Memoirs ABC (Abolition Book Club)! We will meet on Zoom 3 times, on Sundays (1:00-3:00pm PST / 3:00-4:00pm CST / 4:00-6:00pm EST), to discuss different texts that explore interruptions to child sexual abuse and other forms of intimate violence that do not rely on prisons or police, and ways to prevent this violence.

This book club is open to anyone! We are offering free copies of the books to the first 50 QTIBIPOC child sexual abuse survivors living in the US who request them, intended to offset the expense for folks who need the financial assistance obtaining these books.

We are grateful to be partnering with the publisher of our 2026 picks, Haymarket Books, who has given Mirror Memoirs a discounted rate so that we can provide these copies. Here are our upcoming meetings:

• July 19, 2026 (How to End Family Policing, with editor C. Hope Tolliver joining as our guest speaker)

• November 8, 2026 (We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition, with editor Maya Schenwar joining as our guest speaker)

• We will send the Zoom registration link for these meetings to everyone who RSVP's.

This event is hosted by Maryland Families Together.

Are you expecting to or trying to conceive, postpartum or maybe a concerned community member? Learn about the history of family policing and how to build community in Baltimore, MD with Maryland Families Together & Baltimore Baby Fund.

When: Wednesday, July 15th, 2026. 7PM-8PM EST

Google Meet joining info👇🏽

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/evb-bgxw-oco

This event is hosted by Court Watch NYC

This is the first in a two-part series of CWNYC trainings, and covers a brief history of mass incarceration & abolition, the NYC court system, why court watching is important and how you can get involved!

After this training, you can provide court support, join our study group, our signal community and our events! You can also sign up for our tactical #BailWatch training, which goes into detail on the logistics of how to join our arraignments watching campaign. After you have completed that training, you can also sign up for arraignments watching shifts and/or help with logistics!

When? July 14th 7:30 PM

Where? Virtual

This series is an offering of the Stolen Children’s Month Campaign.

Beginning July 14, join us every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 1:00–2:30 PM PT / 4:00–5:30 PM ET for Huddle Up—a peer support space for parents navigating active family policing (“child welfare”) cases. 

Co-facilitated by Stolen Children's Month Founder Ashley Albert and Steering Committee Member BobbieEbony Butts, Huddle Up is a space to break isolation, build resilience, and share survival strategies. 

This space is for impacted parents, by impacted parents.

Please note: Huddle Up is an offering of the Stolen Children's Month Campaign. It is not therapy or legal advice—it's a space for care, connection, and solidarity. Think of it as a hug from mamas who have been where you are.

This event is hosted by Sojourners for Justice Press.

This conversation on Saturday, July 11 at 4pm invites participants to consider how archival materials can be used to piece together aspects of a person’s life—not as a neutral act of recovery, but as an engagement with contested infrastructures shaped by power, access, and historical violence. Which stories rise to the surface, asking to be told? Which ones retreat into shadow, withheld or forgotten? And how do we learn to listen for both?

Drawing on Sojourners for Justice Press’s publication Searching for Joan, Neta Bomani and Mariame Kaba will explore how they engaged archival records to illuminate a constellation of moments from the life of freedom fighter and revolutionary Joan Bird. Moving beyond extraction, they will reflect on archival practice as a form of transformation: a way of participating in the making of collective memory, counter-record, and self-determined narratives.

In a moment emerging from a long history of censorship and rising authoritarianism, this conversation positions archival work as a necessary political act—one that asks us to see ourselves not only as subjects of archives, but as active participants in shaping what endures, what is remembered, and how.

Where? CARA, 225 W13th St. New York, NY 10011

When? Saturday, July 11 at 4PM

This event is hosted by the comrades of the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee in Boston.

Join us for the Boston Stolen Children’s Month Debrief & Aftercare Imagination & Building Session.

This is a space to reflect on the community gathering, process together, imagine what comes next, and continue building community.

If you can’t attend live but have thoughts, reflections, ideas, or feedback to share, comment below or send us a message, and we’ll send you the link to add your comments so your voice can still be part of the conversation.

We’d love to hear from you whether you’re able to join us or not

Where? Virtual Zoom Meeting ID: 840 3439 8864

When? July 9th

This event is hosted by Narrowing the Front door (NtFD)


Shalonda Curtis-Hackett will moderate a community discussion to close out Stolen Children’s Month.

Shalonda is a community-based doula, Community Outreach Coordinator and Policy Associate at Neighborhood Defender Service, and a dedicated community organizer. Her work centers on supporting families, advancing community-led advocacy, and promoting justice through education, outreach, and policy.

Join her for this conversation to reflect on the significance of Stolen Children’s Month, and redirecting resources to support movement work.

When? July 9, 2026 6PM - 7PM EDT

Where? Virtual

This event is hosted by Family Matters 1st and Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Have you been impacted by DCF, foster care, adoption, kinship care, or family separation?

Join Family Matters 1st and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau for a powerful community conversation where impacted parents, adoptees, former foster youth, advocates, and family members can connect, learn about their rights, and share their experiences.

🗣️ We especially want to hear from adoptees and former foster youth. Your lived experiences matter and deserve to be part of the conversation as we work toward a child welfare system that prioritizes family preservation, support, and dignity.

📅 July 2nd
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

💻 Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/84034398864

🔑 Meeting ID: 840 343 98864

Families should not be separated simply because they are facing poverty related reasons . Enough of this legacy of family separation and kidnapping black children from their families. Join us as we discuss solutions, advocacy, and ways to elevate the voices of those most impacted by the system.

📧 Questions? familymattersboston@gmail.com

✨ Please share with parents, adoptees, foster alumni, advocates, social workers, attorneys, and community members.

This event is hosted by Life is a Sacred Text, co-sponsored by EducateUS.

This session with visionary, legendary organizer and activist Mariame Kaba, author of We Do This ‘Till We Free Us and other books, helps participants identify their most sustainable and effective role in social change—not based on what feels most urgent or visible, but on what actually fits their skills, capacities, relationships, and lived realities. This will involve an overview of the various roles that people play in movements; looking at the ways in which our identities, skills; capacities; and contexts shape each of our possibilities; discerning between urgency-driven action and sustainable contribution; looking at shifting roles over time so as to prevent burnout.

This event is hosted by Family Matters 1st and Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Have you been impacted by DCF, foster care, adoption, kinship care, or family separation?

Join Family Matters 1st and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau for a powerful community conversation where impacted parents, adoptees, former foster youth, advocates, and family members can connect, learn about their rights, and share their experiences.

🗣️ We especially want to hear from adoptees and former foster youth. Your lived experiences matter and deserve to be part of the conversation as we work toward a child welfare system that prioritizes family preservation, support, and dignity.

📅 July 2nd
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

💻 Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/84034398864

🔑 Meeting ID: 840 343 98864

Families should not be separated simply because they are facing poverty related reasons . Enough of this legacy of family separation and kidnapping black children from their families. Join us as we discuss solutions, advocacy, and ways to elevate the voices of those most impacted by the system.

📧 Questions? familymattersboston@gmail.com

✨ Please share with parents, adoptees, foster alumni, advocates, social workers, attorneys, and community members.

This event is Interrupting Criminalization and their Beyond Do No Harm Network.

Join us to learn about Interrupting Criminalization's new resource, Don't Be a Copagandist! Health Care Workers Edition. We'll discuss how to identify and avoid reinforcing police, ICE, and border patrol propaganda in stories and interviews about health care. 

Across the U.S. we are seeing an unprecedented surge in ICE and Border Patrol presence in and around schools, hospitals, and other public and private spaces. This opens the door for the expansion of policing and surveillance into places that should be spaces of care and protection — and deputization of care workers to serve as agents of criminalization. Criminalization is inherently harmful — and therefore antithetical to care. Our communities are being made less safe by the persistent presence of policing by local, state, and federal agencies in health care settings and mental health crisis response.

It is important that when grassroots media, journalists, health care workers, and advocates talk about policing and ICE in health care, we avoid reinforcing “copaganda”: pro-police, pro-ICE, and anti-migrant propaganda that ultimately supports further criminalization of our communities. Our Beyond Do No Harm Network and Abolition Journalism Fellow created this resource together to support media, journalists, and health care workers in rethinking how we talk about care.

This event is hosted by Ayni Institute.

This online workshop is about the cyclical patterns that exist in our leadership and social movement organizations. This framework of Seasonality helps us to understand, appreciate and protect the ebbs and flows that occur throughout our time in this work.

We believe that each stage in this cycle has a purpose, gift, and limits that can be applied to our lives, leadership, organizations, and movements. In this workshop we dive into our leadership and organizational seasons specifically, and provide answers to some of the common questions that come up when we’ve previously shared the framework:

• What do seasons look like in my leadership? What should I be doing and how can I get support?

• How can we integrate seasonality into our work and lives? What are some next steps I can take?

• What should we do if I’m in one season and my organization is in another?

This workshop is free of charge, and will be held online on Thursday, February 12, 2026 from 6PM to 8PM Eastern Standard Time. 

We hope you can join us for this free 2 hour workshop!

This event is hosted by Reclaiming our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE).

ROSE invites you to Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks. ROSE is lifting up Black women victims of serial murders in South LA and Stolen Children’s Month.

Where? Leimert Park Plaza, 4343 Leimert Blvd

When? June 28th 1-5:30PM

• 12PM Libations

• 1PM Procession

• 2-5:30PM Performances

This exhibit is a collaboration between artist and writer Vic Liu, Interrupting Criminalization co-founder Mariame Kaba, and the Brooklyn Public Library.

With a full-branch exhibition takeover, The Warehouse transforms the library into a space for public imagination and learning, inviting patrons of all ages to explore what a world beyond incarceration could look like. 

The Warehouse is a site-specific installation expanding upon Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Incarceration, co-written with James Kilgore. The library will be covered with more than two dozen new, full-scale paintings by Vic that examine resistance and survival inside prisons; the emotional and political distance between “inside” and “outside;” and what abolition might look like in practice.

The Warehouse closes with a community fair featuring art, music, and tabling from abolitionist organizations including VOCAL-NY, RAPP, Parole Prep Project, and NYC Books Through Bars, alongside a market of goods made and sold by formerly incarcerated people.

Where? Bedford Library, 496 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

When? Saturday, June 27 / 11:00 AM — 4:00 PM

This event is hosted by Positive Women’s Network.

Join PWN-USA for a policy advocacy training series launching this June! We will be hosting monthly trainings focused on policy advocacy skills-building. The trainings will range in topics from providing an overview on how government processes work to how you to organize effectively on your issue to key frameworks for advocacy.

We know that our members are brilliant and have lived expertise that should guide our strategies - ensuring policies will have better outcomes for those most directly impacted. Let’s build power and skill-build together!

7/24/25: What the Hellscape? Understanding Federal Policy Advocacy in this Moment
8/21/25: Key Frameworks in Advocacy: Racial Justice & Black Liberation
8/28/25: Key Frameworks in Advocacy: Gender Justice & Trans Liberation
9/25/25: How to Organize Effectively
10/23/25: How to Research Targets and Move a Policy Priority
11/20/25: Getting Ready for Legislative Session: Understanding Calendars, Processes, and Timelines
01/22/26: Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV (MIPA) and Coalition 101
2/19/26: Conducting Effective Meetings with Decision Makers
3/19/26: Storytelling for Advocacy
4/16/26: Ending HIV Criminalization using Abolitionist Frameworks in Advocacy

This event is hosted by the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee Members: Mining for Gold, Parents Supporting Parents NY, Adoptees Crossing Lines.

Chris Patch will bring their gifts and abolitionist technologies to Stolen Children's Month. We are hype to offer this artistic adventure for our movement to abolish family policing. You will discover that Chris is more than a teacher. Chris is a guide, storyteller and weaver of arts and culture into the work of liberation. Here is what you'll need to know and prepare for:

Zines are small, self-published works born from resistance and creative freedom. Free from censorship and algorithms, they offer a powerful way to share realities hand-to-hand and truth-to-truth.

In these two workshops, you will create either an 8-page mini zine or a 2-page booklet exploring the theme When They Stole Us. Together, we will use zines as a medium for witnessing and truth-telling—because liberation requires that our experiences and our truths be seen.

Materials: Bring standard printer paper (at least 4 sheets) and something to write with. Additional supplies such as scissors, markers, colored pencils, collage materials, glue, staplers, and stickers are welcome but not required. In the spirit of DIY culture, use whatever materials you have available. See y'all very soon

This event is hosted by the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee.

Come join us on Zoom to learn how to use Stolen Children’s Month proclamations not only to engaged elected officials, but as a tool for political education and community organization.

This event is hosted by Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee Member, Parents Supporting Parents NY.

Join Parents Supporting Parents NY for our first ever uptown JUNETEENTH BLOCK PARTY honoring Stolen Children’s Month.

This event is hosted by Philly Voice for Change.

Join Philly Voice for Change for a community event honoring Stolen Children’s Month.

Where? 915 Spring Garden Street

When? June 20th, 12-7PM ET

This event is hosted by Ancient Song

Overview

A community workshop for fathers to reflect, reconnect, and rise together.

Holding It Down: Honoring Fathers, Healing Families

This workshop offers a safe, affirming space for men to reflect on their journeys, honor their growth, and explore the healing power of fatherhood. Through storytelling, writing, and circle dialogue, we’ll lift up what it means to show up and hold it down — emotionally, spiritually, and generationally.

💬 What to Expect

• Grounding & welcome circle

• Story sharing and reflection

• Legacy letter writing activity

• Group commitment & closing ritual

• Food, fellowship, and fatherhood love

No experience necessary — just bring your presence and your story.

This event is hosted by the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee Members: Mining for Gold, Parents Supporting Parents NY, Adoptees Crossing Lines.

Chris Patch will bring their gifts and abolitionist technologies to Stolen Children's Month. We are hype to offer this artistic adventure for our movement to abolish family policing. You will discover that Chris is more than a teacher. Chris is a guide, storyteller and weaver of arts and culture into the work of liberation. Here is what you'll need to know and prepare for:

Zines are small, self-published works born from resistance and creative freedom. Free from censorship and algorithms, they offer a powerful way to share realities hand-to-hand and truth-to-truth.

In these two workshops, you will create either an 8-page mini zine or a 2-page booklet exploring the theme When They Stole Us. Together, we will use zines as a medium for witnessing and truth-telling—because liberation requires that our experiences and our truths be seen.

Materials: Bring standard printer paper (at least 4 sheets) and something to write with. Additional supplies such as scissors, markers, colored pencils, collage materials, glue, staplers, and stickers are welcome but not required. In the spirit of DIY culture, use whatever materials you have available. See y'all very soon

This event is hosted by the Stolen Children’s Month & Black Mothers March Steering Committees.

Building on the momentum of the Black Mothers March, we'll trace the history of our movements, then get practical — covering the ways you can tap in with Stolen Children’s Month through proclamations and community vigils.

This event is hosted by Mining for Gold, Parents Supporting Parents NY, Adoptees Crossing Lines.

We will gather to excavate what was stolen by the state, the love that remains, and the grief we touch.

📍 NEW LOCATION: @cocobaby120
🗓️ June 2 & June 9
⏰ 6:00 PM Eastern

This event is hosted by Families Inspiring Reentry & Reunification 4 Everyone.

Please join Families Inspiring Reentry & Reunification 4 Everyone for a simulation event that will allow you to step into the shoes of parents working toward reunification with their children in foster care. The goal of this event is to give participants a deeper understanding of the challenges families face when navigating the child welfare system. Through an immersive simulation, individuals who make referrals to Child Protective Services or influence reunification decisions will experience the barriers parents encounter while working to reunify with their children, with the aim of building empathy and encouraging more informed decision-making.

What will I be doing at the event? 

During this simulation, you will be asked to role play a parent that is involved in the juvenile dependency process trying to follow their reunification or family maintenance plan. You will be provided a list of weekly requirements, navigate various stations, run by volunteers, to fulfill those requirements. 

Throughout the event, we will also be sharing case study examples that add more context to the process of navigating this system. 

The event will be five hours, with food and beverages provided. There will be time to process and discuss after the simulation completes. This event is also an opportunity to connect with other leaders in this space working to protect youth and preserve families. 

Date and Time: June 5th, 2026 9:30 AM-2:30 PM 

Location: 

Behavioral Health Training Center 

750 The City Dr South, Suite 130

Orange, CA  

This event series is hosted by Family Matters 1st and Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Have you been impacted by DCF, foster care, adoption, kinship care, or family separation? Join Family Matters 1st and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau for a powerful community conversation where impacted parents, adoptees, former foster youth, advocates, and family members can connect, learn about their rights, and share their experiences.

🗣️ We especially want to hear from adoptees and former foster youth. Your lived experiences matter and deserve to be part of the conversation as we work toward a child welfare system that prioritizes family preservation, support, and dignity.

⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

💻 Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/84034398864

🔑 Meeting ID: 840 343 98864