Hope everyone is having a great day. Remember that you're loved and ACAB

If you’re interested in helping Vanessa Peoples, one of the mothers featured in last week’s CBS Sunday Morning, she now has a GoFundMe to help her and her children get back on their feet after the damage caused by CPS.

If you’re able, you can help here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nb2wut-help-vanessa-get-back-on-her-feet?member=23768885&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined

Tune in to hear the Commissioner of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) talk about the exciting new "pilot" his agency is about to begin that will allow parents to know what their rights are while being investigated. Seriously, this agency is so ridiculous...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/09/child-welfare-racism-nyc

@NCCPR lol, of course there’s no racism. Just ask Rick Barth.

"From 2015 to 2019...DCS investigated the family lives of 1 of every 3 Black children in Maricopa County."

This is not for the purpose of "protection." This is state-sanctioned violence against Black families.

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.propublica.org/article/for-black-families-in-phoenix-child-welfare-investigations-are-constant-threat

This is not to minimize the horrors of being caged and imprisoned for anyone and I am grateful to hear when anyone is freed from this. But there are tens of thousands of people who are caged and imprisoned for marijuana use in the US that also need to be freed. No one person is more important than any other.

If you previously had any positive feelings about The New School, which is allegedly a school for "scholarly activists," you should stop having those feelings.

@erin @darylcognito For me, the issue is that social workers have been working in this system for decades and nothing changes - outcomes are no less racist or violent for children - social workers just get caught up in the policing role of the system. So I think as a profession, we need to take a stand and remove ourselves. That doesn't make the system go away, but it adds a strong voice from outside the system calling for change.

“…the system puts parents, especially single mothers of color, in the impossible situation of having to overcome poverty in order to stop being monitored and to reunite with their children, without providing them the resources necessary to do so.”

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2022/12/05/cps-child-protective-services-welfare-poverty/stories/202212050007

@darylcognito I agree. My view is that all social workers should remove themselves from child welfare agencies and work from the outside toward their abolition. And there should absolutely be accountability for the horrors that have been inflicted on Indigenous populations in the US and in Canada.

There is nothing surprising about the fact that the Administration for Children's Services in New York City tried to cover this up.

What remains a surprise is the continual claims by those who call themselves social work "scholars" that there is no problem with racism in the family policing system. Even when their own caseworkers say it's true, they continue to deny racism even exists...

#SocialWork #ChildWelfare #Abolition

https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-childrens-agency-buries-report-that-details-racial-bias-in-its-ranks

@alandettlaff
The second case example in the @cbsnews story reminds me of this @nytimes story - from 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/nyregion/daily-choice-turned-deadly-children-left-on-their-own.html #childwelfare #fostercare #childabuse

ICYMI: Here is the full clip of CBS Sunday Morning’s story on the family policing system.
If you didn’t previously understand why many of us are calling for abolition, this piece tragically documents the pain and destruction this system causes families.
#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #abolition
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/when-the-system-fails-families-may-pay-the-ultimate-price/#x

Yes rail workers, Joe Biden betrayed you. And he will continue to do so. How dare you ask for paid sick leave. No one should expect that!

https://news.yahoo.com/rail-workers-seeking-sick-days-193611953.html

Forcibly separating children from their families causes harm and trauma every time. There are no exceptions to this. It is state sanctioned violence.

In 2018, psychologists across the country called family separations tantamount to torture. Yet every year, the child welfare/family policing system violently tears nearly 250,000 children away from their parents due mostly to poverty related concerns.
There is a disconnect in our public consciousness that we must confront.
#ChildWelfare #FosterCare #abolition #SocialWork

@tofugolem exactly!

ICYMI: Joe Biden is trying to forcibly prevent rail workers from striking by getting Congress to approve a deal that those workers reject.

This is what Democrats’ support of unions and workers looks like today.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna59081

Oof, this hit me in the chest when I saw it, so am passing it on.

As we gather with our families today, remember the thousands of people in county jails who have never been convicted of a crime due to cash bail laws and the at least 154 people who have been killed in Texas county jails just this year. They have families too.