Learning Resources
Reports
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Drug Tests Are Not Parenting Tests: The Fight to Reimagine Support for Pregnant People Who Use Drugs
Movement for Family Power, Informed Consent Coalition, & Partners.
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"Whatever They Do, I'm Her Comfort, I'm Her Protector." How the Foster System Has Become Ground Zero for the U.S. Drug War
Movement for Family Power, Drug Policy Alliance, & New York University Family Defense Clinic
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Racial Coercion and Control Over Reproductive Decision-Making and Families
Elephant Circle, Pregnancy Justice, Movement for Family Power, and more.
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The Rise of Pregnancy Criminalization
Pregnancy Justice
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Harming Fathers: How the Family Court System Forces Men to Regulate Pregnancy
Pregnancy Justice
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Parenting and Drug Use
Pregnancy Justice
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Drug Use and Human Milk: Legal and Child Welfare Considerations
Elephant Circle
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Beyond Do No Harm Principles Guide
Interrupting Criminalization
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The War on Drugs Meets Child Welfare
Drug Policy Alliance
Fact Sheets & One-Pagers
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Memo in Support of Robust Informed Consent Protections for Pregnant People and Newborns in the New York State Budget
Informed Consent Coalition
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Newborn Data Sheet
NYC Family Policy Project
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Test & Report: Obstetric Violence and Racism
Elephant Circle, Informed Consent NY Coalition
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Model flowchart for a CAPTA Compliant Notification
Colorado Coalition to Protect Children & Family Rights
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What is Mandatory Reporting?
Elephant Circle
Scientific Studies
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Clinical Guidelines on Substance Use Screening, Risk Assessment, and Use Disorder Diagnosis in Adults
New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
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Medical Professional Reports and Child Welfare System Infant Investigations: An Analysis of National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Data
Health Equity
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Pregnancy-Associated Mortality in New York City, 2016-2020
New York City Health Department
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Overdose Among Mothers: The Association between Child Removal and Unintentional Drug Overdose in a Longitudinal Cohort of Marginalised Women in Canada
International Journal of Drug Policy
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Mortality Among Mothers Whose Children Were Taken Into Care by Child Protection Services: A Discordant Sibling Analysis
American Journal of Epidemiology
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Postpartum Depression and Anxiety Among Mothers Whose Child was Placed in Care of Child Protection Services at Birth: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linkable Administrative Data
Maternal and Child Health Journal
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Infant Race Affects Application of Clinical Guidelines When Screening for Drugs of Abuse in Newborns
Pediatrics
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An Evaluation of Rooming-in Among Substance-exposed Newborns in British Columbia
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
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An Initiative to Improve the Quality of Care of Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
American Academy of Pediatrics
News
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Hospitals Gave Women Medications During Childbirth—Then Reported Them for Using Illicit Drugs
By Shoshana Walter in Reveal News
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These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away.
By Eli Cahan in Rolling Stone
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She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away.
By Shoshana Walter in Reveal Media
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They Followed Doctors’ Orders. The State Took Their Babies.
By Shoshana Walter in Reveal News
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Doctors Drug Test Black and Poor Families at Higher Rates, Risking Family Separation
By Elizabeth Brico. Published in Talk Poverty
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'Test-and-report' policies put families at risk
By Jasmine Wali. Published in Times Union
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A Drug Test is Not a Parenting Test
By Ericka Brewington, Informed Consent Coalition Member. Published in The Tennessee Tribune
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We Need More Focus on How the Drug War Attacks Parents of Color
By Dinah Ortiz, Informed Consent Coalition Member. Published in Filter Magazine
Videos
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CAPTA & CARA: Community Teach-In
Movement for Family Power, Bronx Defenders, New York Civil Liberties Union Pregnancy Justice
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Reimagine Support
Movement for Family Power, Drug Policy Alliance, New York University Family Defense Clinic
Press Releases
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April 2024: At the Close of Black Maternal Health Week, a Campaign to Protect the Dignity, Autonomy, and Bodily Integrity of Families is Reborn
Informed Consent Coalition
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May 2023: Parents, Defenders, Advocates, Elected Officials Call on Albany to Stand in Support of Families and Enact Policies Rooted in Equity, Fairness, and Compassion
NYC Family Defenders