New York City family policing investigations of mamas with newborns for alleged drug use dropped nearly 80% between 2020 and 2024. This dramatic drop reflects the influence of decades of work by impacted mamas & the hyperlocal advocacy of the NY Informed Consent Coalition! informedconsentny.com

SNAP shutdown will starve families, while feeding the family policing system that tears them apart. 🧵

If you want to learn more, join @haymarketbooks.org on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7-8:30 PM ET for the virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts:

Check out our October 2025 Family Policing in the News roundup! We're highlighting reporting that exposes the harms of the family policing system–and uplifts the voices, organizing, and leadership of lived experts 🧵

There is still time to RSVP for Cradle to Cage, Seeds of Hope, a two-day convening in Baltimore, Maryland for healing and collective truth-telling on the violence of family policing and incarceration on November 7-8! 🌱 RSVP at bit.ly/cradletocage 🌱

⏰ 7-8:30 PM ET: Join @haymarketbooks.org for the virtual book launch of How to End Family Policing, featuring a conversation with our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @movfamilypower.bsky.social’s Erin Miles Cloud, and professor Dorothy Roberts. Register:

Check out our new merch drop! Funds raised from this design will go right back into the THRIVE Fund, providing mutual aid & capacity support to systems-impacted families & grassroots organizers. Since February, we have distributed over $100,000! 💫💫 Shop now! bit.ly/thrive-merch 💫💫

On Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, Movement for Family Power joined @warehouselife.bsky.social to rally in solidarity with pregnant Amazon workers who have been forced to endure dangerous warehouse conditions–leading to pregnancy loss, severe injuries, and unlawful terminations. 🧵

Are you fighting for families in your community and interested in growing & sustaining your impact? Join MFP & The Collaborative's Sowing Seeds drop-in hours to work in community, while getting real-time advice, access to resources, and strategic support. Learn more: bit.ly/sowing-seeds-fall 🌻

NO STOLEN CHILDREN ON STOLEN LAND. This Indigenous Peoples’ Day and beyond, we resist state kidnapping of children as a tool of genocide against Indigenous communities– from Turtle Island to Palestine and across the globe.

In Maryland, a law that was meant to keep birthing people and newborns safe has now been used to create the ultimate parent trap. The Safe Haven Law promised protection – but Baltimore’s family police punished a mama anyway. 🧵

Rest in power, Assata Shakur. 1947 - 2025. 🖤 We will carry forward her vision, her fight, and her legacy—because, as she reminded us, we have nothing to lose but our chains.

It takes a village to raise a child, NOT a system. September is “Kinship Care Month,” when the family policing system claims to celebrate kinship & present itself as prioritizing family unity. But let’s be clear: kinship belongs to families, not the state.

The family policing system doesn't define kinship. We do. ✔️ Kinship is… resourcing families to show up for each other on our own terms. ❌ Kinship is NOT… forced family separation through coercive “kinship” arrangements. 1/4

“Give money to Black people. That is the solution. That is the charge," said Khiara M. Bridges at our 5th & final Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice teach-in. Full recording here! linktr.ee/BreakingSilos @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

Pre-Order 'How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action' from @haymarketbooks.org NOW! bit.ly/endfamilypolicing 💫 Edited by MFP Co-Founder Erin Miles-Cloud, Advisory Board Member Charity Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, & Shannon Perez-Darby, this book is a call to build flourishing communities.

NEW EPISODE! Ep 135: Family Policing We’re joined in conversation today with Erin Miles Cloud, the mother of two, a civil rights attorney, and co-editor of a new book from @haymarketbooks.org called "How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action." bit.ly/4mfOuyv @movfamilypower.bsky.social

Tune into Part 5 of the Breaking Silos in RJ Teach-In series. Follow along the 🧵 for more! #BreakingSilosRJ @movfamilypower.bsky.social @ifwhenhow.bsky.social

The THRIVE Fund has distributed $70K to systems-impacted families & organizers in 5 months. ❤️‍🔥 We asked folks what was made possible because of the support they received through the Fund. Swipe to read what they shared! (1/2) Donate today to help us sustain the THRIVE Fund: bit.ly/MFP-THRIVE

In its first 5 months, MFP’s THRIVE FUND moved nearly $70,000 to systems-impacted families and grassroots organizers. We’ve been working hard to meet the moment, but we’ve received over $475K in requests. 💫 Please help us sustain & replenish the THRIVE Fund. Donate today: bit.ly/MFP-THRIVE 💫

Want to put $$$ directly into the hands of systems-impacted families & organizers? MFP's THRIVE Fund has moved $70K in mutual aid in just 5 months. Now, we need your support to raise $15K or more in 30 days to replenish the Fund. Give today! bit.ly/MFP-THRIVE

RSVP NOW for the LAST of our 5-part teach-in series, “We Got Us: Community Care Models to Disrupt Poverty Criminalization & Family Separation” on 8/12: linktr.ee/BreakingSilos Join us to hear from abolition dreamers who are building models of community care and demanding reparations 🦋

We invite you to make an ancestral altar, guided by an excerpt from Soul Food: Self-Care Toolkit for Movement Warriors. An ancestral altar is a space to honor those who came before you—blood ancestors, spiritual ancestors, chosen ancestors, & guides. Explore the toolkit: bit.ly/Soul-Food-Toolkit

Join us on August 5 at 2PM ET for a virtual watch party of “Art Unchained,” an exploration of movement, storytelling, & visual art in tribute to those impacted by family policing. RSVP here: bit.ly/art-unchained ❤️‍🔥

Is your organization, coalition, or collective fighting to end family policing? Add your info to the Movement Map! 💫 The Movement Map is under ACTIVE construction! Submit your info as soon as possible to be part of our initial launch: movementforfamilypower.org/map-form 💫

Congress passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that viciously attacks our communities & guts the resources necessary to keep families together. This only makes it clearer: we’re the ones who keep each other alive. Join our Movement Syncs to strategize together: bit.ly/movement-syncs-MFP

RSVP NOW for part 4 of our 5-part Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice Teach-In Series on July 15 “Breaking Borders: Interconnections between Immigrant Justice, Family Policing Abolition, & Reproductive Justice.” linktr.ee/BreakingSilos ✨

In our ongoing struggle against racial capitalism and white supremacy, rest is a radical act of resistance for Black and Brown people. This Juneteenth, MFP is launching Soul Food: Self-Care Toolkit for Movement Warriors in partnership with For Mamas, By Mamas. ✨ bit.ly/Soul-Food-Toolkit ✨

54 yrs ago, Nixon declared the so-called War on Drugs under the guise of public safety. We've long known that it has got nothing to do w/ safety, "it has got to do w/ destroying communities & destroying families." - Karen Thompson, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social Watch: bit.ly/HandsOffMamas-Watch

The family policing system often operates in two violent extremes against fathers: it either casts fathers as absent and disposable or sees fathers as a threat and incapable of providing care. This is not an accident. It is intentional. And it is racialized.

To all the fathers missing their babies: we see you. We mourn with you. We fight alongside you. 💙 This Father’s Day, we honor the love, resistance, and power of fathers—especially Black, Indigenous, and Latine fathers—who have long been criminalized and erased by the family policing system.

HANDS OFF IMMIGRANT FAMILIES! The militarized state is setting our Black and Brown communities on fire. This is not the time to back down. Here’s a few ways to disrupt, organize, and show up with radical care for each other ❤️‍🔥

Update from @movfamilypower.bsky.social: Thanks to your rapid resistance, Amanda has been RELEASED! Within 12 hours, 482 organizations & individuals (& counting) signed a letter to the judge demanding the release of Amanda Wallace. BUT THE FIGHT ISN’T OVER! 🚨

ACTION NEEDED! 🚨SIGN ON IMMEDIATELY TO FREE AMANDA WALLACE FROM JAIL: bit.ly/Free-Amanda She was arrested in Person County, NC and is being held without bond for demanding Justice for Kemari Morgan, a 1-year-old who died in the foster system. Stay tuned for more actions @movfamilypower.bsky.social

🌈HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! 🌈 Join us for pt 3 of our 5-pt Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice Teach-In Series on 6/17, “Breaking Binaries: Queer Abolitionist Dreamscapes of Bodily Autonomy.” Tap in for an intergenerational worldbuilding session centering queer, trans, young people & parents!

It’s officially Stolen Children’s Month! Please join us TODAY (6/2) to kickoff the month with a virtual rally + vigil at 2PM ET. 🖤RSVP: bit.ly/SCM-Kickoff 🖤 Learn more: StolenChildrensMonth.com

We declare June 2025 the first annual Stolen Children’s Month: a time to uplift the voices of children STOLEN by the family policing and adoption industries, the ICE detention and deportation machine, and the prison-industrial complex. Save the date and learn more at StolenChildrensMonth.com 🔥

Forced sterilization and family separation are two sides of the same coin. This is not child protection. It’s ERASURE. This Disability Reproductive Equity Day, let's talk about it🧵

When Black Families Are Under Attack, What Do We Do? Stand Up, Fight Back! Thank you to all who joined us this Mother's Day for the fourth annual Black Mothers March in solidarity against the family policing system. 🖤✨

Sad you can’t make it to the Black Mothers’ March this Sunday? You can still support @movfamilypower.bsky.social in getting Black Mamas there! It’s not too late to buy merch or make a donation! lnkd.in/eGAzyxVa lnkd.in/eHpAq62g

We’re hiring! MFP is seeking an Administrative Consultant to support our internal operations, initiatives, & movement-building work! In lieu of a proposal, fill out this form by 5/22 at 11:59pm PT: bit.ly/MFP-Admin. View scope of work here: movementforfamilypower.org/careers

RSVP NOW for part 2 of our 5-part Breaking Silos in RJ Teach-In Series on 5/20, “Hands Off Mamas: Disrupting the Criminalization of Birthing People Who Use Drugs” 💫 Hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights & Justice at Berkeley Law, Elephant Circle, @ifwhenhow.bsky.social, & MFP.

The family policing system thrives in the shadows. Check out our Family Policing in the News round up, lifting up reporting that pulls back the curtain on the family policing system ⬇️

"Though I was aware of the long history of reparations efforts relating to slavery for Black Americans, I wondered why family policing has not been more central to those conversations.” New op-ed in @theimprintnews.bsky.social from Imani Worthy of Black Families Love & Unite: bit.ly/Imprint-BLU ✨

Another Black child was kidnapped today. Join us at the 4th annual #BlackMothersMarch (5/11) to demand an end to the state-sanctioned kidnapping of our children. RSVP: BlackMothersMarch.com 🖤

Black mamas, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! The #BlackMothersMarch is a space to unite, to heal, to connect with other mamas who know your struggle, and to find comrades and allies in the fight to end family policing. 🖤 RSVP: BlackMothersMarch.com/Registration

Endless gratitude to @blackmamasmatter.bsky.social for founding #BlackMaternalHealthWeek. Check them out for more ways to tap in! This BMHW, we are imagining what Black maternal health will look like in our abolitionist future….

“Never to forget where we came from and always honor the bridges that carried us over” – Fannie Lou Hamer This Black Women's History Month, it’s our turn to build the bridges to carry the next generation over. Join our movement syncs to do this, together: bit.ly/movement-syncs-MFP

In April 1983, Reagan declared the first Child Abuse Prevention Month as he slashed social programs & expanded the family policing system that itself abuses children. 42 yrs later, the gov is STILL using this playbook. So let’s be clear about what child abuse prevention really IS & what it IS NOT ⬇️

RSVP NOW for part one–Abolishing the Family Policing System: A Reproductive Justice Imperative–at linktr.ee/BreakingSilos. Keep an eye out for details & RSVP links for the rest of the series!