Join us on Friday, March 8th for the launch of the End Poverty, Preserve Families Coalition DC!

Mother’s Outreach Network is excited to announce that we are initiating an expanded effort to transform the child welfare system here in DC: the End Poverty, Preserve Families Coalition! Through this new coalition, Mother’s Outreach Network will be able to continue the advocacy and education about family policing we’ve always done while enlisting new partners in the struggle to end poverty and preserve families. 

We are kicking off the coalition at 1pm with our webinar: What is Family Policing and What are the Alternatives that Provide Real Support? This first event in a series of webinars will feature special guests Alan Detlaff, Professor of Social Work at University of Houston, and Maya Pendleton, Co-Founder of the upEND movement. In a discussion moderated by Mother’s Outreach Network Executive Director Melody Webb, our panelists will present about the history of the child welfare system and the transformational, abolitionist alternatives they envision. We will also get to hear about Prof. Detlaff’s new book Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition. We hope you will tune in to engage with our panelists, whether you are an expert in the field or completely new to the child welfare advocacy space.