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!