Alan Dettlaff

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Dean and professor at University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work | abolitionist | working to abolish the child welfare/family policing system at upEND Movement | co-editor of Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work Journal | Mexican American 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | he/him 🏳️‍🌈 | views are mine

#socialwork #childwelfare #familypolicing #abolition #abolitionist #upendmovement
The upEND Movement to abolish the family policing systemhttps://upendmovement.org
Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work Journalhttps://apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org/apsw
Op-Ed on Ending Carceral Social Workhttps://inquest.org/end-carceral-social-work/
Alan DettlaffDec 12, 2022
Jadzia (The polish one)Dec 12, 2022
Hope everyone is having a great day. Remember that you're loved and ACAB
Alan DettlaffDec 12, 2022
If you’re interested in helping Vanessa Peoples, one of the mothers featured in last week’s CBS Sunday Morning, she now has a GoFundMe to help her and her children get back on their feet after the damage caused by CPS.

If you’re able, you can help here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nb2wut-help-vanessa-get-back-on-her-feet?member=23768885&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined
Alan DettlaffDec 11, 2022

Tune in to hear the Commissioner of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) talk about the exciting new "pilot" his agency is about to begin that will allow parents to know what their rights are while being investigated. Seriously, this agency is so ridiculous...

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/12/09/child-welfare-racism-nyc

After workers allege racism, the Commissioner of NYC's child welfare system addresses priorities | Here & Now

Black and Brown families have long believed that New York's child welfare system is racist. Now, a new survey shows some caseworkers on the inside agree.

WBUR
Show threadAlan DettlaffDec 9, 2022
@NCCPR lol, of course there’s no racism. Just ask Rick Barth.
Alan DettlaffDec 8, 2022

"From 2015 to 2019...DCS investigated the family lives of 1 of every 3 Black children in Maricopa County."

This is not for the purpose of "protection." This is state-sanctioned violence against Black families.

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.propublica.org/article/for-black-families-in-phoenix-child-welfare-investigations-are-constant-threat

For Black Families in Phoenix, Child Welfare Investigations Are a Constant Threat

One in three Black children in Maricopa County, Arizona, faced a child welfare investigation over a five-year period, leaving many families in a state of dread. Some parents are pushing back.

ProPublica
Alan DettlaffDec 8, 2022
This is not to minimize the horrors of being caged and imprisoned for anyone and I am grateful to hear when anyone is freed from this. But there are tens of thousands of people who are caged and imprisoned for marijuana use in the US that also need to be freed. No one person is more important than any other.
Alan DettlaffDec 7, 2022
If you previously had any positive feelings about The New School, which is allegedly a school for "scholarly activists," you should stop having those feelings.
Alan DettlaffDec 6, 2022
@erin @darylcognito For me, the issue is that social workers have been working in this system for decades and nothing changes - outcomes are no less racist or violent for children - social workers just get caught up in the policing role of the system. So I think as a profession, we need to take a stand and remove ourselves. That doesn't make the system go away, but it adds a strong voice from outside the system calling for change.
Alan DettlaffDec 6, 2022

“…the system puts parents, especially single mothers of color, in the impossible situation of having to overcome poverty in order to stop being monitored and to reunite with their children, without providing them the resources necessary to do so.”

#ChildWelfare #SocialWork #Abolition

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2022/12/05/cps-child-protective-services-welfare-poverty/stories/202212050007

Hina Naveed: The child welfare system targets the poor

When I graduated from nursing school five years ago, I worked for an agency in New York City’s foster care system. I believed I was helping families....

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Show threadAlan DettlaffDec 6, 2022
@darylcognito I agree. My view is that all social workers should remove themselves from child welfare agencies and work from the outside toward their abolition. And there should absolutely be accountability for the horrors that have been inflicted on Indigenous populations in the US and in Canada.