The best medicine for a newborn exposed to a substance is to be near their parent.
We need to #RepealCAPTA and end the criminalization of pregnant and parenting people.
Today marks 50 years of surveilling and separating families under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). If you think strengthening and supporting families is a better alternative to surveillance and separation, join us RepealCAPTA. #RepealCAPTA
Support families, not systems. END FAMILY POLICING.
Follow RepealCAPTA to learn more about our coalition’s work to end the devastating harms of CAPTA and build towards our visions of a care and resource-driven approach to meeting the needs of children and families. 🔥🔥🔥
50th anniversary of #CAPTA asking to fund keeping families together and not seperation #endmandatedreporting fund grassroot orgs that support true child welfare Joyce McMillan Family Matters 1st #repealCAPTA #REPEALASFA
The system takes Black children from their parents, causing separation trauma, and “foster care” sets them on a path to juvenile detention and then adult prison. It has to stop. #RepealCAPTA .
Protecting constitutional rights to family integrity & autonomy keeps church Waldren safe #repealcapta 50 years of humiliating and policing black bodies black children and families Ayanna Pressley AOC Press Release (parody)
Congressional briefing on the harms of CAPTA happening NOW. Follow along with this RepealCAPTA thread!
'The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act created the federal foundation for a family policing system that prioritizes surveillance over support and far too often facilitates pregnant people into the criminal legal system.' - Lauren Wranosky
#RepealCAPTA
AngelaBurton kicking off #RepealCAPTA session with Hayley Lichterman, Shalonda Curtiss-Hackett & Terri Green #ABAPAR2024
Jan. 31, 2024 marks the 50th year since the enactment of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). We’re joining the RepealCAPTA Coalition for a Day of Action in Washington D.C. to demand an end to federal legislation that requires states to target + surveil families
The so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) does not protect children or prevent or treat abuse. It targets vulnerable communities and keeps pregnant/parenting people away from seeking healthcare.
We need to #RepealCAPTA . repealcapta.org RepealCAPTA
As a #TruMother who had my parental rights unjustly terminated, I'm glad that someone's speaking up for families. #AbolishCPS #RepealASFA #RepealCAPTA #AbolishCPS Adoption #AbolishClosedAdoption #EndAdoption #AdoptionHurts #NeverAgainCPS
CAPTA Law Codifies Everything Wrong With How We ‘Fight’ Child Abuse #RepealCAPTA youthtoday.org/2018/08/capta-…
This episode is SO GOOD. We have the excellent AngelaBurton, Mical Raz, and Richard Wexler (@NCCPR) break down the origins of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and why it needs to go. #RepealCAPTA
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