This event is hosted by Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice.

Please join the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice for a thought‑provoking discussion with The Labors of Resurrection author Prof. Shatema Threadcraft, in conversation with Prof. Khiara M. Bridges.

Black women face a devastating crisis of premature death: though they are about 10% of the femme population, they represent the vast majority of women murdered in the U.S., often through intimate partner violence understood as femicide. This crisis is deeply intertwined with the Black maternal health crisis, where Black women are more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum year, and murder is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US.

This conversation will examine Black femicide as a challenge at the intersection of anti‑violence work and birth justice organizing.

📍 Berkeley Law, Room 170

This event is hosted by Ancient Song.

The Birth Justice Institute invites community members, birth workers, advocates, and partners to a Community Voices Listening & Input Session centered on connection, reflection, and collective visioning.

This gathering is both an orientation and a listening space. We will share the mission, values, and purpose of the Birth Justice Institute and its hubs, while centering community voices to help guide and shape our work moving forward.

Your lived experiences, insights, and needs matter—and this session is designed to honor that. Grab a seat, bring your stories, and help shape the future of birth justice!

This event is hosted by Center for Family Representation.

Join the Parent Legislative Action Network (PLAN), the Chief Defenders Association of New York (CDANY), the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA), and advocates from across New York State as we call on the legislature to stand in defense of families.

Advocates and attorneys will meet with legislators in-person in Albany to advocate for three important state bills: the Family Miranda Rights Act, the Maternal Health, Dignity, and Consent Act (formerly the Informed Consent Act), and the Preserving Family Bonds Act. Our goal is to shrink the pathways through which New York’s most marginalized families are funneled into the family policing system and to ensure that families currently navigating this system are treated with dignity and respect.

Join us to demand that New York enacts policies rooted in equity, fairness, and compassion, and invests in community-based, non-punitive family supports that are wholly outside the court and family regulation systems.

This event is hosted by The Bronx Defenders.

Join us for our annual community dinner and conversation about the criminal, immigration, civil, and family policing systems.

Nothing in the Bronx should happen without input from the people from the Bronx - but every day city and state policy makers make choices about funding, programs, and priorities that impact our community without the full participation of the community.

Come out to talk about YOUR priorities with neighbors and advocates and to hear about the ways The Bronx Defenders is pushing back against systemic racism and advocating for a more equitable and safe borough.

Spanish translation will be available.

This event is hosted by Women’s Strike US.

For International Women's Day: ICE, CHILD WELFARE: STOP TAKING OUR KIDS! Money for moms, not for tearing families apart!

🚩 ICE Out!
Gather at 🕚 11am 📍 114 N. 8th St, Philadelphia ICE Office
Joining Sen. Art Haywood’s weekly Stop ICE Raids vigil

🚩 No Cuts to SNAP! Money for Moms, not for Genocide and War!
March to 📍 8th and Market, County Assistance Office, PA Department of Human Services and PA State Treasurer’s office

🚩 Stop Unjust & Racist Child Removals!
Closing rally at 📍 16th and Ben Franklin Parkway, across from Philadelphia Department of Human Services

Tell City Hall:
📢 Implement Child Separation Recommendations
📢 Pass ICE Out Legislation
📢 Support Expanded Child Tax Credit

✨ We All Have the Right to Be Here ✨
✨ All Moms Deserve a Care Income ✨

All Welcome. Disability transport available.

This event is hosted by Elephant Circle.

In Colorado, Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) provide prenatal, birth, and postpartum care, along with newborn care and well person services. CPMs attend both home and birth center births, yet other maternal and infant care providers lack an understanding of their training, education and practice environment.  

When a community birth provider requires collaborative care at a hospital or with a physician, a smooth transfer of care benefits from an understanding of the practice environment of all providers involved (including paramedics/EMTs, emergency medicine providers, and maternal/newborn/infant providers).

This webinar is designed to provide a foundation of knowledge about the CPM credential for maternal and infant care providers who are unfamiliar with this type of provider. 

A panel of CPMs will describe:

☀️the midwifery model of care

☀️the education and training required for the CPM credential and licensure

☀️the difference between the terms DEM and CPM

☀️the practice environment of CPMs in Colorado

☀️the most common obstetric or newborn emergencies in the field

☀️most common reasons for needing to transfer care to a hospital and/or physician 

Childbirth legal experts will address common vicarious liability questions that arise during transfers of care from community midwives to hospital providers.

This event is hosted by Mother’s Outreach Network.

In this webinar, attendees will learn how to apply for the Mother Up guaranteed income pilot, how to refer someone, and what to expect from the process. We will walk you through eligibility, confidentiality, and the research pilot design, and answer questions live so families and partner organizations can share referrals with confidence.

This event is hosted by Avow Texas.

Join Avow Texas to confront a brutal truth: Houston is the deadliest major U.S. city for Black people to give birth. This crisis is the direct outcome of a century-long project to dismantle Black community power. Featuring local organizers, birth workers, and advocates, this event will ground us in history, analyze the present, and build toward a future where every person has the right to have children, not have children, and parent the children they have in sustainable communities. We will center the expertise and resistance of Black communities, and explore what a reproductive justice future—where Black families can thrive in safety and autonomy—looks like in Houston and beyond.

The Reading Room
1111 Providence St, Houston, TX 77002

This event is hosted by the National Immigration Project.

This training will help community defenders understand how habeas petitions are used in the immigration detention context and go over the basic elements of a pro se petition for the most common scenarios.

This training is for non-attorney advocates, including organizers, and others supporting detained community members. This training will be presented in English with Spanish simultaneous interpretation and is not eligible for CLE credit. 

Questions? Please contact events@nipnlg.org. 

Esta capacitación ayudará a les defensores comunitaries a comprender cómo se utilizan las peticiones de hábeas corpus en el contexto de la detención de inmigrantes y repasar los elementos básicos de una petición pro se para los escenarios más comunes.

Esta capacitación es para defensores que no son abogades, incluye organizadores y otras personas que apoyan a les miembres de la comunidad detenides. Esta capacitación se presentará en inglés con interpretación simultánea en español y no es elegible para el crédito CLE.

¿Preguntas? Póngase en contacto con events@nipnlg.org. 

This event is hosted by Black Mamas Matter Alliance.

This year marks 9 years of the Black Maternal Health Week campaign, and 10 years of BMMA establishing the Global Black Maternal Health Movement. We’re coming together to launch a week Rooted in Justice and Joy and we want you in the room.
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This call is open to EVERYONE, including community members, partners, stakeholders, and advocates, to engage in this year’s theme, Rooted in Justice and Joy, and build shared energy for a community-centered week of learning, connection, and action.

During the call, we’ll share the purpose and goals of Black Maternal Health Week, explore ways to get involved, and uplift activities being planned by partners across our Alliance.

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 JMAC for Families.

This webinar will highlight the vision of people with lived experience who are working to create a system of care that ensures the well-being of families. Utilizing their own power, panelists with lived experience, organizing, and policy expertise will examine how race, power, and narratives have shaped decisions around who is deemed a "fit" family-and who is not.

This event is hosted by Trauma Response and Crisis Care (TRACC) for Movement in collaboration with the WildSeed Society.

WildSeed has partnered with our team member, Vahisha Hasan along with Teresa Mateus, collaborators and coordinators of a project named TRACC4Movements - Trauma Response and Crisis Care for Movements. TRACC first activated during George Floyd summer, training over 500 people across the US, and parts of Latin America and Canada, on movement trauma and crisis response for social movements. TRACC built a network of healers who organized responses to actions and supported local healers across all the territories of the US, including frontlines crisis response teams supporting community across the US south.

We are reigniting this powerful force for these times, beginning with a no cost foundational movement support training to reground and reconnect: Movement Crisis Care Training Sunday, February 15th, 2026 2:00-3:30pm ET/1:00-2:30pm CT/12:00-1:30pm MT/11:00-12:30pm PT

We ask that anyone who wants to re-engage register even if you can’t join in real time so we can plan scale for our teams. Following this initial gathering we will offer additional trainings and mobilization content to re-build the network roots and vines, so that we can be FRONTLINES and BACKLINES support for our communities and each other going forward.

We look forward to building community with each of you and send immense gratitude for the ways each of you worked together as part of this network in the past and are supporting your communities in the present. We hope this shared space is one that can nurture and nourish each of us for whatever lies ahead.

This event is hosted by Healthy and Free Tennessee and WeCareTN.

Join Healthy and Free Tennessee and WeCareTN for an evening of connection, learning and action. Hear panelists break down key bills for the upcoming session, then help us decide which ones we'd date, pass, or block in 2026. Free entry, food & kids kickback provided. Attend for a chance to win a $100 Kroger gift card, limited supplies. Register for the location.

This event is hosted by Healthy & Free TN.

Join Healthy & Free Tennessee x Knoxville Black Maternal Health for an evening of connection, learning, and collective action.

We’re gathering in community to create moon cycle bracelets, talk through reproductive justice legislation, and explore how policy shows up in our bodies and communities. This is a free, community-centered space rooted in care, curiosity, and shared wisdom.

Food will be provided.
Donations welcomed.
Location shared via email after RSVP confirmation.

Come as you are. Leave more connected, informed, and resourced.

This event is hosted by Interrupting Criminalization.

Register for “Accountability Beyond Punishment Workbook,” a virtual session on transformative justice with organizer and transformative justice facilitator Camila Pelsinger Villalba.

This session is for people who are practicing or curious about transformative justice, survivor support, and community-based responses to harm—no prior experience required.

Together, we’ll explore a framework of spectrums that can help orient how to align transformative justice practice with our principles.

🗓️ Thursday, February 12, 2026
⏰ 6:30–8:00 p.m. EST
💻 Online via Zoom (link sent the day of the event)

We’ll offer ASL interpretation and live captioning to support access for our communities. The session will not be recorded.

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 webinar is hosted by the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and Interrupting Criminalization's Beyond Do No Harm Network.

Over and over again, we hear from people navigating the realities of mandated reporting and family policing: “What happens if I do it wrong? Will I get in trouble?”

Navigating the everyday realities of mandatory reporting and concerns about the harms of criminalization can feel daunting. People concerned about the harms of mandated reporting face a slew of messages from "We need mandated reporting to keep children safe," to "Don't report! Never comply with unjust laws."

Developed in collaboration with the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral Project and Interrupting Criminalization’s Beyond Do No Harm Network, the Mandated Reporting Balancing Risk Assessment Tool (BRAT) is designed to help practitioners and community-based groups concerned about the harms of the criminal legal system and family policing to navigate mandated reporting risk assessment and harm reduction practices.

In this virtual session we will review the Mandated Reporting Balancing Risk Assessment Tool, share harm reduction strategies, answer questions and co-vision a world where everyone is safe outside the harms of family policing and criminalization.

• Tuesday February 3rd, 1-2:30 PT/3-4:30 CT/4-5:30 ET

• Free, donations welcome to support this work

This workshop will be presented in Zoom meeting format with opportunities for questions and discussion. We will be using zoom generated captions. This will be a public, unvetted space. We will be recording and sharing out the presentation portion of the webinar but will not be recording or sharing the question/conversation portion of this session.

For questions please reach out to Shannon@accountablecommunities.com

This event is hosted by the Stoneleigh Foundation, the Family Justice Clinic at Temple Law, and Philly Voice for Change.

Join us for a discussion about a new framework for community-driven advocacy that is rooted in the principles of liberation movement-building and community lawyering. During the webinar, you will learn about the framework and gain concrete tools and strategies to incorporate this approach into your advocacy efforts.

Date: Tuesday, January 27
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 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 Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting.

Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporting is excited to invite you to our New York City book launch of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action. Join us to discuss efforts to reduce mandated reporting, from clinical to legislative change!

Where? The People’s Forum / 320 West 37th Street / New York City, NY 10018

When? Thursday, January 15th, 2026 at 6:30pm-8pm

RSVP: bit.ly/MR-book

For nearly 6 years, Mandated Reporters Against Mandated Reporters has been a peer support and organizing space for social workers, social service and mental health workers, and others who are mandated by law to report suspicions of child abuse and neglect to “child protective” services–but who believe this practice does more harm than good. 

This new book includes a chapter from our co-founders urging people in helping professions to resist this and all other practices that criminalize families–especially Black families, whom the NYC Administration for Children’s Services investigates at a rate 7 times higher than white families.

Our book launch will be joined by the Network to Advance Abolition in Social Work (NAASW), the NY Mandated Reporting Working Group, and Cafe Con Libros who will be selling copies of the book! 

This event is hosted by the New York Informed Consent Coalition.

To kick off the 2026 session, join the Informed Consent Coalition’s Advocacy Day for the Maternal Health, Dignity, and Consent Act (A.860 / S.845) – Monday, January 12 in Albany!

This bill ensures that medical providers obtain informed consent before drug testing and screening pregnant/postpartum people and their newborns. Take action with us during a powerful day of advocacy, featuring a rally, press conference, and meetings with lawmakers, to defend bodily autonomy and demand an end to the harmful medical practices of non-consensual drug testing/screening. We will start this session off strong, building on the incredible momentum from last year.

Transportation to Albany and lunch will be provided.

This event is hosted by Mama Bees Housing Community.

Join us for the Mama Bees Virtual Community Teach-In Series on Abundance Planning. A 2-part series, where we will explore ancestral wisdom, share rituals of care, cultural community values, and practices that can sustain our community-led/grassroots initiatives, and uplift reproductive and economic justice.

This series is a cornerstone of our commitment to building a self-sustaining community where our values, integrity, community and family's well-being will always come first. Learn from the wisdom and collective experiences of those most impacted by birth and economic justice issues.

We invite you to connect, engage, and contribute to our financial liberation efforts that uplift and empower women and/self-identifying femmes and caregivers and/birthing people. 

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

💬 Community Talks: Know Your Rights with DCF
📅 Oct 30, Nov 13, Dec 4, Dec 18 | 7–8 PM
📍 Zoom ID: 916 3837 6036

Family Matters 1st and the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau are hosting a series of virtual talks for parents, families, and advocates impacted by the child welfare system what we call “the Family Police.”

Come share your story, connect with others, and learn about your rights with DCF. We’re stronger together. 💜

✉️ Questions? Email hlabfamdefense@lists.law.harvard.edu

This event is hosted by Movement for Family Power and the Collaborative.

Are you fighting for families in your community and interested in growing and sustaining your impact? 

Sowing Seeds is BACK this Fall in the form of drop-in office hours with Lauren Burke from the Collaborative.

These sessions are dedicated time for you to work in community, while getting real-time advice, access to resources, and strategic support with project management, budget & finances, and grants & fundraising. 

While this is not a space for legal support on individual cases, Lauren can look over grants, help discuss HR issues, give mini training, and provide other operational support.

We will meet on Zoom from 11AM-1PM ET every Thursday between October 23-December 18th (except for Thanksgiving week). No long-term commitment is required–just sign up and drop in as needed. 

These sessions are designed to be flexible, collaborative, and responsive to what movement builders need.

This event is hosted by Mama Bees Housing Community.

Join us for the Mama Bees Virtual Community Teach-In Series on Abundance Planning. A 2-part series, where we will explore ancestral wisdom, share rituals of care, cultural community values, and practices that can sustain our community-led/grassroots initiatives, and uplift reproductive and economic justice.

This series is a cornerstone of our commitment to building a self-sustaining community where our values, integrity, community and family's well-being will always come first. Learn from the wisdom and collective experiences of those most impacted by birth and economic justice issues.

We invite you to connect, engage, and contribute to our financial liberation efforts that uplift and empower women and/self-identifying femmes and caregivers and/birthing people. 

This event is hosted by Movement for Family Power and the Collaborative.

Are you fighting for families in your community and interested in growing and sustaining your impact? 

Sowing Seeds is BACK this Fall in the form of drop-in office hours with Lauren Burke from the Collaborative.

These sessions are dedicated time for you to work in community, while getting real-time advice, access to resources, and strategic support with project management, budget & finances, and grants & fundraising. 

While this is not a space for legal support on individual cases, Lauren can look over grants, help discuss HR issues, give mini training, and provide other operational support.

We will meet on Zoom from 11AM-1PM ET every Thursday between October 23-December 18th (except for Thanksgiving week). No long-term commitment is required–just sign up and drop in as needed. 

These sessions are designed to be flexible, collaborative, and responsive to what movement builders need.

These virtual gatherings are a welcoming space for parents, caregivers, former foster youth, and allies to share experiences, build connection, and support each other on the path toward family reunification and healing.

Write to us at reimaginechildsafetyparents@gmail.com to RSVP.

This event series is hosted by Black Families Love & Unite.

We are excited to offer this Somatic Wellness Workshop to families that have been impacted by the child welfare system as a way for us to explore what it means to deeply care for our bodies.

Options throughout this practice will be offered for those standing, sitting, and lying down. Please center your care & access needs during this session - think of whatever you need to feel cozy!

If it is accessible to you, you might consider having a cup of tea, some incense, candles, or any little plant or flower nearby during the practice.

Cost: FREE

First Saturday of the month / All workshops will take place on Zoom.

This event is hosted by the Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative (JBPC).

Join us to feel the joy of community, share a meal, and real talk about the power of punishment at a moment in which punishment is central to governance in our country.

Presented by the Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative (JBPC), Challenging the Politics of Punishment: Building Toward Non-Carceral Safety, Healing, and Justice is an interactive workshop on implementing and integrating our series of messaging tools - including a zine, a podcast, and a messaging guide - in the face of heightened state violence. Workshop participants will discuss how punishment paradigms impact their organizing and activism - specifically in this moment of heightened state violence - and to ideate & put into practice ways that JBPC messaging tools can make their work easier and more effective.

December 5, 2025 | 6-8pm

The People's Forum, 320 W 37th St, Manhattan

Questions? Please contact Cameron at camron916@gmail.com.