On February 24th, Rise Community Coordinator Halimah Washington spoke at AQE’s press conference in the Bronx to demand NY State invest $5 billion in universal child care.
Posts Tagged: Child care is a family policing issue
This series shares Rise’s advocacy for affordable, accessible child care and respite care unaffiliated with family policing systems.
‘If I had access to child care, I wouldn’t have had an ACS case.’
February 15, 2022 by
If it was easy to get child care, many families wouldn’t get an ACS case or have to deal with the family policing system, because they wouldn’t have to leave their children at home. If I had access to child care, I never would have become involved with the family policing system. ACS became involved with my family when I left my younger kids with my 14-year-old child watching them when I went out for an appointment.
Child Care is a Child Welfare Issue: Why Rise Identified Child Care as a Policy Priority
February 15, 2022 by
Halimah Washington, Rise Community Coordinator, discusses the connection between child care and family policing, how child care supports family safety and wellbeing and why Rise identified access to child care as a policy priority.
Rise Identifies Policy Priorities: Child Care, Mandated Reporting and Mental Health Supports
February 15, 2022 by
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 eight community report back sessions, engaging parents, parent advocates, social workers, legal providers, and community members in discussions about our research findings. Through this process, Rise identified three policy priorities for 2022-2023.
Rise is working towards the abolition of the family policing system. Here, we outline recommendations based on our experiences, research and community report back sessions that can serve as immediate concrete stepping stones to move New York City toward shrinking the family policing system and strengthening networks of community care that truly support families.
Broke and Alone — It wasn’t love that made me open the door to my daughter’s unstable father
November 28, 2017 by
When I was 23 and my doctor told me I was pregnant, I put my head down and burst out crying.
A piece of me felt grateful that God chose me to bring life into the world. But I also felt angry, ashamed, selfish and scared. The father and I had only been dating a short while. Plus, I had a job but he didn’t, and neither of us was financially secure.
Still, when my boyfriend told me that … Read More