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

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 the Stolen Children’s Month Steering Committee.

We declare June 2026 the second annual Stolen Children’s Month! Join us for a kickoff virtual rally & community vigil to begin healing together and organizing to abolish ALL systems that steal children and separate families.

Hear how you can get involved and help us honor children stolen by the family policing system, the ICE machine, youth incarceration, private adoption, forced treatment facilities, and every other system that tears families apart.

This event is hosted by Peer Defense Project.

Join us to gain the knowledge and tools necessary to protect yourself, your family, and your community! Get legal education on:

• Family Preparedness Planning

• Legal Rights & Protections

• Safe Zone Policies & Campus Protections

• School & Community Response to ICE Raids

• Accessing Immigration Legal Resources

Peer Defense Project is people powered. We’re a youth-led, worker-directed nonprofit that makes law a superpower for youth leaders. We envision a world where young people thrive in a multiracial, intergenerational democracy; one where all young people have the education, power, and connections to use their creativity to co-author the laws and policies that structure their world.

This event is hosted and moderated by journalists Florence Middleton and Celeste Hamilton Dennis.

Across the country, overdose and suicide are among the leading causes of maternal mortality. Yet evidence shows that if just one support factor had been different, like a doula, many of those deaths would have been preventable. For the past year, journalists Celeste Hamilton Dennis and Florence Middleton have been reporting a story about harm reduction doulas in Seattle with support from the Pulitzer Center. This webinar brings together three people from the story:

-Ash Woods, co-founder of the Harm Reduction Doula Collective

-Destiny, childbirth educator and parent with lived experience of substance use who worked with a harm reduction doula

-Collin Schenk, medical director at Swedish Addiction Recovery Services

We hope this conversation sheds light on what harm reduction doulas do, why more are needed, how you can support pregnant folks who use substances, and what other resources are out there for this community. Please join us! And please spread the word.

This event is brought to you by the Accountable Communities Consortium, the Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral project and the How to End Family Policing: From Outrach to Action anthology.

Join abolitionist organizers Chanelle Gallant, Tashmica Torok, zara raven and Shannon Perez-Darby as we discuss how our collective inability to address child sexual abuse perpetuates the harms of family policing.

Many organizers use the term “family policing” rather than “child welfare” to recognize the ways the system surveilles, punishes, and separates families, especially Black, Indigenous and low/no income families, rather than providing for their well-being.Child sexual abuse (CSA) is both a primary justification for these systems and an all too common experience by young people forced to into them.

As we call for the abolition of family policing, even people critical of these systems pause and ask,"But what about child sexual abuse?" Don't we need these systems to keep children safe?"Family policing and mandated reporting are not designed for the safety of children and families yet so many people feel as those these systems are a necessary part of children's safety. This false dichotomy is a trap that limits our visions of what's possible.

Join in this virtual event as we imagine a word that abolishes all forms of policing AND centers the safety and self-determination of young people.

This event will be a panel discussion with time for Q&A. We will be using zoom generated captions. A recording will be available for one month after the workshop for registered participants.

• Tuesday, May 26th

• 4-6 pm ET/3-5 PM CT/1-3 PM PT

• Registration is sliding scale $1-25

For questions please reach out to Shannon@accountablecommunities.com

This event is hosted by Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective.

Black Healing Remixed: Regulate to Resist is a month-long virtual series, with one gathering each week throughout May. This converning gives you real non-carceral tools to support your people through schizophrenia, panic attacks, and psychiatric systems, while centering Black trans safety and disaporic solidarity. We built this month the same way we want to build our communities. With room to breathe.

The relationship between Black communities and psychiatric care is complicated. From the history of medical racism to present-day disparities in diagnosis and treatment, this conversation creates space to ask the hard questions, share valid concerns and explore what informed psychiatric care can look like. You'll leave with historical context, practical frameworks for advocating for yourself or a loved one within these systems and a greater sense of agency over your own mental health journey.

Join us on Tuesday, May 19, 2:30 PM - 4 PM EDT with our panelists:

• Antonia Hylton

• Kelechi Ubozoh

• Imadé Nibokun

• Dr. Rupi Legha

• Yolo Akili Robinson

This event is organized by Black Mother’s March.

The Black Mother’s March on the White House is more than an event—it’s a movement. Now in its 5th year, this powerful gathering serves as a platform to make the struggle to rescue our children a vital part of the larger fight for Black liberation.

This Mother’s Day, we unite as a collective to condemn the colonialist policies that undermine the centrality of Black life. These policies target Black families, isolate individuals, and victimize entire communities. Through this march, we give a voice to those who have been silenced and take a stand against the injustices of the Family Policing System.

The march is an opportunity to reclaim our power, amplify our voices, and resist a system designed to oppress. Together, we will demand accountability, justice, and the freedom to build futures where Black families are protected and cherished.

Whether you are a mother, father, grandparent, an advocate, or a co-conspirator, your presence matters. Join us in Washington, D.C., to honor our shared commitment to liberation, community, and our theme this year: WE GOT US!

This event is hosted by Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral.

Join in conversation with Erin Miles Cloud, Margaret Prescod and zara raven, editors/ contributors to the new book, How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action.

📅 Saturday May 9th
🕐 3:30-5pn
📍Crossroads Women's Center (v5011 Wayne Ave)
🔗Register link in bio

In-person AND remote! Childcare available.

Children are too often removed from their families and placed in foster care because “child welfare” policies treat poverty as neglect. Black and Brown children, mostly from single mothers, are removed at an alarming rate. Meanwhile Philly City Council has not implemented the 2022 special committee recommendation to end this and other discriminatory practices.

In Philly 67% of children removed are Black, despite being only 42% of the population. How are children impacted? What is the foster care to prison pipeline? How are agencies collaborating with ICE to kidnap and detain immigrant children? What resources should be available to help mothers and other caregivers raise children rather than being used to separate families? How are impacted communities fighting back?

Philly send-off to Black Mothers March in DC May 10. blackmothersmarch.com

This event is hosted by Philly Voice for Change.

Has DHS investigated your family? Searched your home? Surveilled your family? Searched your child? Your voice is important!

Join Philly Voice for Change for a community dialogue on family policing investigations.

When? May 8, 2026 / 5-7PM

Where? Temple Law School / 1719 Broad Street

Food and drink will be provided.

This event is hosted by Westchester Justice for Families.

Join us for this session that will take a deeper look at how CPS impacts families in real time ,what parents are experiencing, what to expect, and what you need to know to protect yourself and your family.

Event Details:
May 8, 2026
5:00 PM
Zoom

In partnership with Legal Services of Hudson Valley – Family Defense Unit, this session will provide important information, guidance, and space for honest conversation.

This event is hosted by Healthy & Free TN.

Join us for a screening and discussion of The Devil Is Busy, an Oscar-nominated short film that highlights a day in the life at a reproductive health clinic in Georgia. Afterwards, we'll map community resources to intervene in pregnancy surveillance and criminalization! Light snacks will be provided.

When? Thursday, May 7th / 5:30-7:00 PM

Where? Nashville Public Library, Bordeaux Branch / 4000 Clarksville Pike, Nashville, TN 37218

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 29th at 5PM for a Black Mothers March Resistance Teach-In: We Got Us! Community Defense in Practice.

We’ll tap into the expertise in our movement, learning from comrades who are practicing community defense every day, from direct action, to court watch, to judicial conduct complaints, to abolitionist birth work, to “Family as Family” biographies, and on!

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.