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Building a Peer and Community Care Network
This series shares our learning about, and vision for, peer and community care to strengthen families and prevent contact with the family policing system.
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The Rise & Shine Buddy System: ‘Everyone needs a good buddy!’
During a community-building workshop early on in the Rise & Shine Parent Leadership Program, we did a group activity where we spun around in circles until we were informed to stop. We were told that when we stopped, the... Read MoreSelf-Care and Community-Care Strategies
As part of our community-building workshops to begin the program, parents in the 2022 Rise & Shine leadership program engaged in discussion about self-care and community-care strategies. Together, parents developed a list of self-care and community-care strategies for our... Read More
Rise Identifies Policy Priorities: Child Care, Mandated Reporting and Mental Health Supports
In 2021, in collaboration with TakeRoot Justice, Rise released the participatory action research report, An Unavoidable System: The Harms of Family Policing and Parents’ Vision for Investing in Community Care. Following our report release, Rise held a series of... Read More-
In envisioning collective care, Rise’s organizing team developed this definition of a Community Care Network:
A Community Care Network is the set of people and places in your life that help you to achieve your goals and care for you... Read More
‘Doing Activities Together Brings Us Closer and Helps Us Relax and Have Fun’
For fun, my son Aaron and I like to go to museums, playgrounds and zoos. Our favorite museum is Brooklyn Children’s Museum. There is so much to do there that even if you go a lot, you will always... Read More- Shakira Paige is a contributor at Rise and a member of Rise's Peer Vision Team. This reflection on the role of Peer and Community Supporters was published in the Rise Insights report, Someone to Turn To: A Vision for... Read More
Building Safety in Community Through Restorative Justice
Over the past year, Ashley Ellis, co-founder of B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Collective, trained all Rise staff on restorative justice circle keeping. Rise also interviewed Ashley about restorative justice as part of our process for developing the report, Someone to Turn To:... Read More‘Peer Support is Fundamental to Keeping Families Together’
In honor of National Reunification Month, Lindsay Reilly, a parent impacted by the family policing system, discusses her experiences with peer support both during her ACS case and since she reunified with her two youngest children last year. She... Read MoreHow Rise is Working to Support Faster Family Reunification — And Shrink the Foster System
In honor of National Reunification Month, Jeanette Vega, assistant director at Rise, discusses how Rise supports reunification of families separated by the foster system, explains how this work connects to our goal of abolition and highlights Rise resources by... Read MoreExpand Support for Families, But Not Inside the Child Welfare System
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s recent announcement that New York City will invest millions in “family enrichment centers” sounds like a win for families. But this initiative should be reconsidered, and the city should start by listening to what families... Read More‘We want policing defunded in all forms — including the family policing system’
Rise Community Coordinator Halimah Washington reflects on the March to Defund the NYPD on May 25th and parents’ calls to reverse over-investment in family policing and under-investment in communities
Here, she explains how the movement to defund the police (NYPD)... Read More
- Being scared of the child welfare system has an impact on almost everything I do. Every move I make has to be given careful thought—what doctors I go to and what I tell a doctor or therapist.
Taking Narcan Training is Taking Care of Community
I found out about the Narcan training when I was a part of a board in my community. Someone came to a meeting and asked us if we wanted to learn how to use Narcan. I said, “Yes.” I... Read More‘When You Have Lived Experience, You Come with a Different Angle’
Rise interviewed Marilyn Reyes, co-director of the Peer Network of New York, about harm reduction peer support as part of our process for developing the report, Someone to Turn To: A Vision for Creating Networks of Parent Peer Care.... Read More‘Our First Priority Is Making Sure People Are OK’
Fear of the family policing system can prevent families from accessing needed resources and support. Through community-led mutual aid, community members support each other, often responding more quickly than... Read More
Join Rise in Launching a New Parent Peer Support Model in NYC!
Rise is building a peer care network that can strengthen families while reducing contact with the family policing system. Rise seeks to do this work collaboratively in New York City in partnership with other community-led organizations, beginning with communities... Read MoreSomeone To Turn To: A Vision for Creating Networks of Parent Peer Care
This Insights paper presents Rise’s vision for a peer network of collective care by and for parents. This fall, Rise created a parent Peer Vision Team to explore building a peer care model that can strengthen families while reducing... Read MoreINSIGHTS #3: Someone to Turn To: A Vision for Creating Networks of Parent Peer Care
This Insights paper presents Rise’s vision for a peer network of collective care by and for parents. This fall, Rise created a parent Peer Vision Team to explore building a peer care model that can strengthen families while... Read More
- On May 26, 2021 Rise held a webinar and panel discussion about strengthening support for families and communities. You can watch the video to join in with this work!
Iowa Parent Partners connect with Rise at their 2016 Summit
Iowa Parent Partners at their 2016 Summit with copies of Rise! This statewide organization provides peer mentoring to parents facing the child welfare system. Thank you Carly Shaw and Sara Persons for bringing Rise to Iowa!