This event is sponsored by the Repeal CAPTA Coalition.

Across the country, parents are facing child abuse investigations without being told their rights. No warning. No attorney. No meaningful due process.

This national webinar brings together advocates from multiple states who are working to secure “Family Miranda” protections, clear notice of rights provided both verbally and in writing before questioning, searches, or coerced agreements during child abuse investigations.

Panelists will share legislative efforts, grassroots strategies, legal challenges, and lessons learned from the front lines. We will examine what is moving, what is stalled, and what it will take to build momentum nationwide.

Sponsored by REPEAL CAPTA, this convening is designed for attorneys, organizers, impacted parents, policy advocates, and anyone committed to protecting families from unchecked investigative power.

Before they knock, families deserve to know their rights.

This event is hosted by the Marshall Project.

In addition to the rollback of abortion rights in many states, pregnant people are being monitored and policed in other ways that The Marshall Project has been extensively covering. The Marshall Project will host a webinar to walk you through our reporting and offer guidance on how to do this investigative work in your own community.

You’ll hear from Shoshana Walter and Jill Castellano, whose recent investigation uncovered more than 70,000 births in 21 states that triggered referrals to law enforcement over alleged substance use during pregnancy — even though these reports are often based on unreliable hospital drug tests that yield false positive results or are easily misinterpreted.

When this happens, women can be interrogated by police shortly after giving birth, jailed and prosecuted for testing positive due to legal substances, such as poppy seeds, CBD gummies to alleviate nausea, and even the fentanyl from their epidurals. This investigation also includes a reporting toolkit to help journalists and researchers dig into this issue locally.

The event will be moderated by Cary Aspinwall, who uncovered how miscarriages and stillbirths are being investigated as crimes in several states. Her reporting shows that how a person handles a pregnancy loss — and where it occurs — can be the difference between a private medical issue and a criminal charge for abuse of a corpse, child neglect or even murder. Aspinwall's investigations have found that a positive drug test after a pregnancy loss can result in criminal charges for the parent, and even prison time. And even when babies are born healthy, laws embracing the concept of fetal personhood are putting people behind bars.

This training event will be recorded and is part of Investigate This!, which shares criminal justice datasets and other investigative resources with journalists and researchers.

This event is hosted by Black Mamas Matter.

As we close  Black Maternal Health Week 2026 (BMHW26), BMMA invites you to an intimate, sacred gathering to honor the memory of Black families lost to maternal mortality and to affirm the healing and joy that sustains our movement.

This Community Remembrance and Healing Vigil is designed for birth workers, doulas, midwives, nurses, physicians, public health professionals, lactation consultants, and all who carry the weight of this work. You will have the opportunity to participate in ritual elements including foot washing, affirmation showers, and community altar building as we collectively hold space for grief, remembrance, and renewal.

This is not an event for observation. It is an intentional, participatory space. Please register only if you are prepared to engage fully in this sacred container.

This event is hosted by Parent Advocates for Transformation and Healing (PATH).

At PATH, we believe families deserve to be informed, supported , and heard. Join our "You Have Rights" space where parents & youth lead together.

This is a space where families come together to :

• Learn their rights

• Build advocacy skills

• Stay strong together

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 Ancient Song.

Join the Black Doulas Roundtable online to chat about building a strong, lasting doula workforce and smart strategies!

Join us for a powerful and necessary conversation centering the experiences, challenges, and future of Black doulas.

This virtual roundtable is a dedicated space for Black doulas to come together in community during the lunch hour to engage in honest dialogue, collective problem-solving, and movement-building.

Together, we will explore:

• Workforce barriers impacting Black doulas

• Medicaid reimbursement and access challenges

• Burnout and the realities of sustaining this work

• Strategies for long-term sustainability

• Building collective power and shaping the future of the doula movement

This is more than a conversation—it is a space for alignment, visioning, and shared wisdom.

Whether you are a seasoned doula or newer to the field, your voice and experience matter here.

This event is hosted by Ancient Song.

Join us for a powerful and intimate virtual gathering as part of Black Maternal Health Week.

Black Mothers Speak: Truth, Testimony, Transformation & Resistance is a moderated storytelling space centering the lived experiences of Black mothers and birthing people.

This is a space to speak truth, be witnessed, and build collective power through storytelling.

Together, we will:
✨ Share birth stories—both joyful and challenging
✨ Name barriers within maternal health systems
✨ Honor lived experiences as knowledge and resistance
✨ Envision pathways toward birth justice and healing

This gathering is open to:

• Black mothers and birthing people

• Doulas and birth workers

• Partners, families, and community members

Whether you come to share your story or to listen and hold space, your presence matters.

This is a brave, sacred, and community-centered space rooted in care, respect, and confidentiality.

This event is hosted by Law 4 Black Lives.

Co-authors and co-editors Ameca Reali and Marbré Stahly-Butts will be in conversation about their recently published book, "Lawyering for Liberation: A Toolbox for Movement Lawyers.” 

They will be joined by contributors from the book to explore how lawyers and legal workers can effectively support and sustain powerful movements, emphasizing the critical importance of power building and radical imagining in today’s context. As we face unique threats posed by growing authoritarianism, the need for radical and movement-based lawyering has never been more urgent. 

Panelists include Vince Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Joo-Hyun Kang, longtime police reform organizer and former head of Communities United for Police Reform; Rachel Herzing, esteemed organizer and abolitionist; and Meena Jagannath, international movement lawyer. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with leaders in the movement!

This event is hosted by the Black Mothers March Steering Committee.

2026 marks five years of the Black Mothers March to end family policing! In honor of this year’s theme, WE GOT US, we invite all of you to join us virtually for a series of events that will deepen our collective knowledge, sharpen our resistance tactics, and cultivate connection and joy!

Please join us on April 13, 2026 at 5PM ET for a Black Mothers March Virtual Event: Community Power Party! We’ll invite you to participate in a phone zap, letter writing, and a protest art design space to boost the reach of and the creativity reflected at the Black Mothers March!

This event is hosted by Black Mamas Matter.

Join BMMA, Inc. on Monday, April 13, 2026, at 12 PM ET for the BMHW26 Virtual Pep Rally: Black Maternal Health in Your Neighborhood, a high-energy, community-centered kickoff to Black Maternal Health Week.

This is your opportunity to connect with Alliance Partners and stakeholders from across the country who are leading powerful work in communities nationwide. Hear about the efforts advancing Black maternal health equity, learn how you can get involved locally and nationally, and rally together for Black Mamas, birthing people, families, and communities.

This event is hosted by Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA, Inc.)

the Black Maternal Health WALK & COMMUNITY FAIR brings together Black mamas, families, birth workers, advocates, and community members for a day rooted in connection, care, and collective joy.

Expect a morning walk followed by family-friendly activities, food, live entertainment, community resources, local vendors, and spaces to gather, learn, and celebrate Black families.

This year’s theme, Rooted in Justice and Joy, centers healing, resilience, and the power of community as we continue advocating for equity in Black maternal health care.

The event is free and open to all. Whether you are walking in honor of a loved one, showing up for Black Mamas, or simply looking for a space to connect and celebrate, we invite you to join us.

Save your spot and join us in community.

This event is hosted by Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence and Movement for Family Power.

Join us for a panel discussion on the family policing system, Child Protective Services, and their impact on maternal child health outcomes.

This event is hosted by The Family Preservation Project.

A facilitated virtual space to share, witness, and process experiences of birth, medical harm, and perinatal care. Many Disabled parents carry stories of being dismissed, disbelieved, labeled, or surveilled. This session offers a structured, supportive environment to name what happened and what it meant in community.

This space is not therapy and no one is required to share. Listening is participation. We will use gentle prompts, clear agreements, and grounding practices to help keep the space steady and supportive.

2026 marks five years of the Black Mothers March to end family policing! In honor of this year’s theme, WE GOT US, we invite all of you to join us virtually for a series of events that will deepen our collective knowledge, sharpen our resistance tactics, and cultivate connection and joy!

Please join us on March 30, 2026at 2PM ET for a Black Mothers March Resistance Teach-In: Lifting the Veil: The Fight for Community Access to Family Policing Courts.

Tap in to explore the power and necessity of dissent and community access to family policing courts in building strong community defense ecosystems–and hear from folks on the ground who are navigating barriers to this work in real time:

• April Lee, Philly Voice for Change

• Elizabeth Rossi, Civil Rights Corps

• Hani Mirza, Advancement Project

• Jamie Marsicano, People's Law Collective

• Miriam Mack, Movement for Family Power (Moderator)

This event is hosted by The Family Preservation Project.

This virtual session is a welcoming, Disabled-centered space to learn more about what doulas do, how birthworkers can offer meaningful support, and how doula care can be adapted to Disabled people’s (access) needs and lived realities. Whether you are currently pregnant, planning a pregnancy, parenting, or simply exploring your options, this teach-in is designed to offer practical information in an accessible and non-judgmental environment. 

* This session will be facilitated by a Disabled parent and full-spectrum doula.

* $75 stipends will be paid to all attendees.

This event is hosted by Ancient Song.

The Birth Justice Institute invites community members, birth workers, and advocates to a foundational workshop exploring Birth Justice and Reproductive Justice frameworks.

This session is designed to build shared understanding around rights, equity, and community-centered care while creating space for reflection, dialogue, and community voice. Participants will engage in learning, conversation, and guided input to help inform future hub programming.

This workshop welcomes those who are new to these frameworks as well as those seeking to deepen their understanding in a collective, supportive environment.

This event is hosted by the Family Justice Clinic at Temple Law.

Join us for a celebration of the inaugural year of the Family Justice Clinic, and a dynamic facilitated discussion and live podcast recording about the true costs of termination of parental rights on families and communities. This event honors and amplifies the #TrueNarratives campaign, a collaborative story-based campaign led by Mining for Gold LLC with support from the Family Justice Clinic. Speakers include Corey Best , Ashley Albert, Courtney Dowe, and Tanesha Grant.

This event is hosted by Narrowing the Front Door and JMAC for Families.

This webinar challenges dominant narratives around social work, examining the real and often overlooked harms caused by systems meant to "help." Panelists will explain how harm shows up in everyday social work practice and agency decision-making, while lifting up abolitionist social work in practice. The webinar will also highlight how to meaningfully recognize, resource, and celebrate abolitionist social workers who operate beyond the system

This event is hosted by Healthy & Free TN.

Healthy and Free Tennessee’s annual Day on the Hill is almost here! We’re coming together to plant intention, grow collective power, and advocate for policies that support healthy & free families across Tennessee.

This year, we will be turning values into action. Attendees will connect with community members from across the state and meet directly with legislators to share lived experiences and policy priorities that impact Tennessee families.

Join us for training, community, and a powerful day of action at the Capitol. This is how movements grow, from seeds to roots. Together, we will show up for policies that support health, dignity, and freedom.

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:

• March 22, 2026 (Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice, with co-authors Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam joining as our guest speakers)

• 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 The Family Preservation Project.

A virtual training centering Disability Justice–informed advocacy, consent-based support, and strategies for standing alongside Disabled people and families throughout their perinatal journey. Our goal is to equip doulas with tools to support Disabled parents and pregnant people within systems that often conflate care with control.

*Certificates of completion will be provided to all doulas.

Focus and Scope

• This training is open to doulas of all backgrounds and practice settings. While the content addresses working with Disabled people across a wide range of experiences (including physical, sensory, psychiatric, and chronic health disabilities) particular attention will be given to supporting pregnant people and parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

• We will explore how doula care can be adapted to meet diverse communication styles, cognitive access needs, supported decision-making practices, and autonomy-centered frameworks. The training will also examine the distinct forms of surveillance, ableism, capacity-questioning, and paternalism that disproportionately impact people with I/DD in perinatal systems, and how doulas can provide protective, respectful support within those realities.

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 West Coast LEAF.

Join West Coast LEAF and our project community partners for a community feast, celebration and report launch of Safety together: addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system.

We will be sharing back key findings, calls to actions and honouring the lived experience experts who grounded and shaped this report.

A light lunch and children's corner (no child-minding) will be onsite.

This event is co-hosted by Doing Right by Birth, If/When/How, Maryland Families Together, Office of the Public Defender, and Reproductive Justice in Adoption.

Learn about the challenges families face when the foster system enters their lives, and how medical professionals can be a part of a network of support with Doing Right at Birth, Maryland Families Together, Dreams r Us, Maryland Office of the Public Defender and Liz Latty.

This event is hosted by Accountable Communities Consortium.

Exploring the impacts of mandatory reporting and building harm reduction skills to support people experiencing violence and harm.

We hear the same story over and over again, most people who are mandated reporters receive little to no training. This includes even basic information about the parameters and limits of mandated reporting let alone support to navigate the many nuanced scenarios mandated reporters find themselves traversing. This dynamic sets everyone up to fail. People experiencing violence and abuse don’t get the thoughtful, person-centered care they deserve and people providing care are forced into unnecessary urgency making impossible choices between navigating the self-determination of people needing care and harmful state interventions.

From direct services providers and social workers to community-based responders this workshop is designed for anyone interested in learning how to navigate the realities of mandatory reporting while building meaningful, community-based harm reduction practices. We will explore the impacts of current mandatory reporting policies and practices, build mandatory reporting harm reduction skills, and discuss organizational and community practices for supporting people experiencing violence and harm.

This event is organized by Teachers for Social Justice.

Join us for the 2026 Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair in Chicago

The TSJ curriculum fair brings teachers together for keynote speakers, workshops, curriculum sharing, and resources. It is an energizing experience that connects teachers with radical political education and each other - reaffirming a commitment to social justice teaching. The Curriculum Fair attracts roughly 1000 attendees, most of whom are practicing K-12 teachers, educators, community members, organizers, parents, and youth.

This year's theme is: Fighting for our Futures: Teaching for Solidarity and Justice in this Crisis

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.