This event is hosted by We Are Revolutionary, Capital District Latinos (CDL) and the Mandated Reporting Work Group (MRWG).

Across the Capital Region, families are uniting to confront a system that criminalizes poverty, punishes trauma, and calls it “protection.” The Family Policing Town Hall + Teach-In Series is a collective effort to expose the harm caused by the family regulation system and to build a new vision of care rooted in healing, safety, and shared power.

Led by We Are Revolutionary and partners across the Capital District, this series dives deep into the intersections of housing instability, mental health, education, incarceration, and youth criminalization, revealing how each system feeds into state control and family separation. Together, we’re organizing toward a family first future, one where communities, not courts, decide how families are supported and loved.

Our upcoming event, hosted with Capital District Latinos (CDL) and the Mandated Reporting Work Group (MRWG), focuses on mandated reporting what it is, what really happens after a report, and how we can reduce harm while protecting children and families. This is more than a conversation, it’s part of a region-wide strategy to end the criminalization of families and strengthen community care networks that make state intervention unnecessary.

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025

3:30–5:30 PM

Cultural Empowerment & Community Engagement Center -160 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12206

You’ll leave with practical tools to understand your rights, spot patterns of harm, and take action to keep families together. We’re calling on parents, youth, educators, healers, organizers, and allies across the Capital Region to join us in this movement for truth and transformation.

Together, we’re not just ending family policing, we’re reimagining what safety looks like when it’s led by love, not fear.