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Organize Overcome Reclaim Uplift

Hands Up

Strategically coordinate and bring local families together to create a shared vision for thriving and success.

Organize

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Navigate together the mental, emotional, and systemic barriers that prevent us from thriving as a community.

Overcome

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Take back what has always been ours: collective power, cultural wisdom, and healing presence.

Reclaim

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Elevate and uplift families through healing, action, and empowerment.

Uplift

the problem.

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While made with genuine concern and not knowing other options, schools often call CPS in response to a child struggling at home due to poverty or lack of access to basic needs. 

 

The child welfare hotline is not intended to connect families with resources. Child welfare intervention may lead to more state surveillance, criminalization, and family separation, especially for Black, Latino, and Indigenous families.

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our solution.

Families, not institutions or organizations, are at

the center of disrupting the pipeline from schools to family separation.

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Together with educators, families design a community care plan for families to support families through mutual aid, cultural wisdom, and accountability.

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why it's different.

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We are localized 

uplifting families to sustainably support themselves and their communities.

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We create a shared vision

for intergenerational healing, collective joy, and a world without systems of violence.

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We shift culture

by reimagining how families can support families without judgement, stigma, or coercion.

cornerstones.

These components are the foundation for all our work. Our work requires that we prioritize fostering a deeper connection with ourselves, unlearning embodied stigma and systemic oppression, and creating new standards of being in community with each other.

© 2025 By Akhila K. Nekkanti.
 

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