Organize Overcome Reclaim Uplift
Strategically coordinate and bring local families together to create a shared vision for thriving and success.
Organize
Navigate together the mental, emotional, and systemic barriers that prevent us from thriving as a community.
Overcome
Take back what has always been ours: collective power, cultural wisdom, and healing presence.
Reclaim
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.
Creating a shared vision for intergenerational healing, collective joy, and a world without systems of violence.
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Supporting each other and our communities without judgement, stigma, or coercion.
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Shira Hassan,
Changing how we are with ourselves is how we change how we are with each other and how we are collectively.
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Reconnecting with ourselves, our Home, and our ancestors; understanding how we may have internalized systemic oppression.
Dr. Jennifer Mullan,
Decolonizing Therapy