by Elizabeth Simpson | Nov 30, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
The Assembly and WBTV are doing a three-part investigation into Durham County’s child welfare system. Their second article, No-Win Scenario, features Emancipate NC’s Toia Potts’s uphill and unjust battle to fight for her children to return home....
by Holly Blackburn | Nov 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
On October 28th, 2023, law students, attorneys, professors, social workers, judges, activists, and impacted parents all gathered for a first-of-its-kind conference about the national crisis in the child welfare system. The conference was a huge success and focused on...
by Holly Blackburn | Nov 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Meet Toia Potts, a dedicated Organizer at Emancipate NC. As a parent who has been falsely accused of child abuse and a victim of the family regulation system, Toia is committed to raising awareness about the ways in which CPS separates families. Toia frequently shares...
by Holly Blackburn | Nov 8, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
Dawn Blagrove from Emancipate NC spoke with Kelon Lyons about the recent court of appeals opinion declaring life beginning at the inception of a child and thus the harmful ramifications this has for families involved with DSS. “This ruling further opens up...
by Holly Blackburn | Oct 26, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Family Regulation
By Elizabeth Simpson Republished from the INDY Week This week, there was news of a North Carolina Court of Appeals decision about a child with the pseudonym “Opal” who was taken away from her mother because she was in utero at the time that a half-sibling was abused....
by Holly Blackburn | Oct 12, 2023 | Emancipate NC News, Events, Family Regulation
Join Emancipate NC, Duke Law School, UNC Law School, and North Carolina Central Law School on October 28th, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for the national conference Keeping Families Together: Crisis in Child Welfare. This conference will be on defending parents from...