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A No-Win Situation Revealed

A No-Win Situation Revealed

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....
Keeping Families Together Conference

Keeping Families Together Conference

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...
Staff Spotlight: Meet Toia Potts

Staff Spotlight: Meet Toia Potts

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...
Article: ‘Life begins at conception’ court ruling could profoundly affect NC families, legal experts say

Article: ‘Life begins at conception’ court ruling could profoundly affect NC families, legal experts say

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...
Op Ed: It’s Time for Durham County and Courthouse Leaders to Engage on Reforms to Foster Care System

Op Ed: It’s Time for Durham County and Courthouse Leaders to Engage on Reforms to Foster Care System

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....
Last Chance to Register for our Inaugural Family Defense Conference 

Last Chance to Register for our Inaugural Family Defense Conference 

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...
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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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