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DSS Forced To Re-Prioritize Kinship Care for Disabled Kids

DSS Forced To Re-Prioritize Kinship Care for Disabled Kids

by operations | Mar 16, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

Image: DSS Board Chair and Durham County Commissioner Wendy Jacobs during Monday’s commission meeting At the Durham Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) meeting this past Monday, DSS Assistant Director of Child & Family Services Jovetta Whitfield presented a...
Toia’s Fight to Reunite Her Family Builds Steam

Toia’s Fight to Reunite Her Family Builds Steam

by operations | Mar 2, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

Even in a system that has already done so much harm to Toia Potts’ family, DSS illegally directing the clerk of court not to file adoption petitions on behalf of her children’s biological kin still seemed almost unbelievable. And yet these actions were exactly what...
Toia Potts Interviewed on WBTV Charlotte

Toia Potts Interviewed on WBTV Charlotte

by operations | Feb 16, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

For Team Emancipate, the work to transform “child welfare” is personal. It is shaped by the experiences of Toia Potts, a grieving mother and Emancipate’s newest organizer. Durham’s family policing system terminated her parental rights for two boys after she spent...
Durham DSS Slow to Reunify Kids with Families

Durham DSS Slow to Reunify Kids with Families

by operations | Feb 16, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

Last month, we shared our first set of infographics to visualize data from the Durham Department of Social Services. Our latest findings reinforce Toia’s personal experience: as we continue to review the public records – which DSS denied to us until we sued them...
Report Back on Durham DSS Public Records

Report Back on Durham DSS Public Records

by operations | Feb 1, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

Art by Dawn Blagrove For some time, Team Emancipate has been investigating the Durham County Department of Social Services (DSS). Last fall, we released a report full of county-level reforms to make Durham’s child welfare system work better for kids and their...
Emancipate NC Settles Public Records Suit With Durham DSS

Emancipate NC Settles Public Records Suit With Durham DSS

by operations | Dec 15, 2022 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation

Photo depicts some of the attendees at a Roundtable event at Duke Law School to discuss “Keeping Families Together in Durham County” held on December 6, 2022. Last month, we reported that Emancipate NC sued the Durham County Department of Social...
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Emancipate NC was founded on the knowledge that mass incarceration and structural racism harm all of us. Prison is state-sponsored violence. We are all complicit in its harms. As an organization, we are dedicated to shifting the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education and mobilization. The mainstream narrative that criminalizes Black and Brown people must be transformed—so that we can all get free.  Emancipate NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and was previously known as the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

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