Last year, Rise interviewed Kelis Houston, a family advocate and child welfare policy consultant in Minnesota, about Minnesota parents and allies fighting to address racial bias and violations of parents’ rights by the child welfare system. Rise spoke to Kelis Houston again to get an update on the African American Family Preservation Act.
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Minnesota parents take to the streets, the courts and the legislature
January 10, 2019 by
In Minnesota this year, parents and their allies began protesting what they say are routine violations of families’ rights as well as bias that leads to the overrepresentation of black and Native American families in the child welfare system. In Minnesota, a black child is 3 to 5 times more likely to be in foster care than a white child, and a Native American child is 17 times more likely to be in foster care, according to … Read More
‘A Call to Action’: New Research Finds Extremely High Rates of Investigations of Black, Brown and Native Families
November 03, 2021 by
Parents at Rise have long documented how the family policing system affects Black and brown people living in low-income areas of NYC. In July, a team of researchers from Duke University and Rutgers University published the study, “Contact with Child Protective Services is pervasive but unequally distributed by race and ethnicity in large US counties.” As its title suggests, the paper finds that the system impacts the lives of far too many Black and brown families.
Dr. Frank Edwards, an assistant professor at Rutgers University’s School of Criminal Justice who studies race and state violence, policing and family separation, was part of the team that worked on this study. Here, he discusses their findings in NYC and nationally, mandated reporting, investigations and why he is an abolitionist.
Advocates and Allies Around the World Organize to Fight Racism and Reduce the Foster System
February 10, 2021 by
The International Parent Advocacy Network (IPAN) partnered with Rise to develop the Toolkit for Transformation. Here, we highlight groups featured in the Community Organizing section of the toolkit.
Tributes to Rise for Our 15th Anniversary
October 28, 2020 by
For our 15th Anniversary in 2020, we asked our community to share their experiences and memories of Rise. Here’s a few!
Allison Brown, NYC
Tahitia Foggie, Connecticut
Jim Dossett, Oregon
Michelle Chalmers, Minnesota
Tenisha Sanders’ Kids! NYC