OUR EVENTS
Critical Conversation: Black Women in Family Court Cases 2022
Critical Conversation: Black Women in Family Court Cases
Black mothers are all too familiar with how law enforcement, child welfare, and the court system work together to suppress their freedom to just exist in public and private spaces. To understand how the black mothers are treated in family court, a systemic and societal context must be underscored, addressing intersectionality, implicit bias, and racism. This panel will examine the lived experience of several black, protective mothers who have had their ability to protect and parent their children compromised by what they experience as a capitalistic, legal framework that sees black women as angry, combative imperfect victims rather than pillars of resiliency.
To learn more about the panelists and to view the recording, please click here.
Family Court Awareness Month is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donations are appreciated, and really help us to keep shining the spotlight on the need to create a safer family court system. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided.
IEFV & CPPA | Forward Together: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Protecting Children from Abuse 2022
Virtual Event: Co-sponsored by the California Protective Parents Association (CPPA) and UCI Initiative to End Family Violence (IEFV).
This full-day virtual conference will offer multidisciplinary perspectives on protecting children from family violence in the context of child custody or divorce cases. National experts, leading legislators, inspirational survivors, and courageous kids will address policy reforms, health and trauma concerns, protective parenting, institutional betrayal, and intervention strategies.
Together, attendees can move forward prioritizing child safety and health in family court cases.
This event is pending approval for Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider. Click here for event page.
Family Court Awareness Month: Los Angeles Protest 2022
We will come together at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA for a peaceful protest to raise awareness of the issues within the family court system. We demand a family court system that prioritizes child safety above parental rights. We demand that the voices of children be heard. We demand that abuse is no loner silenced, but properly investigated. We demand an end to reunification camps. We demand proper training, real accountability, and effective oversight. We demand a seat at the table to ensure survivor’s lived experiences inform judicial policy.
To RSVP or for more information, email: info@familycourtawarenessmonth.org
Details: We will begin setting up at 7:30AM in Grand Park on the North side of Stanley Mosk Courthouse. Arrive early. Wear Blue. Bring signs. Parking ($18 to $30), and here are some options: https://tinyurl.com/y2makmcu.
#FamilyCourtAwarenessMonth #TeamPiqui #JusticeforSaraandSophia #JusticeForAllMurderedandAbusedChildreninFamilyCourtCases #JusticeForMayaAndSebastian #EndReunificationCamps #TenMoreCAKidsGoneForever2022 #110CACitiesandCounties2022 #StopTheMadness #GovernorNewsomChildSafetyFirst
Critical Conversation: Reunification Camps Exposed 2022
Critical Conversation: Reunification Camps Exposed
An emerging cottage industry, spawned by the theory of parental alienation, is feeding off family court cases. It is now responsible for a proliferation of a largely unregulated business opportunity across the globe. Unproven reunification multi-day intensive treatment, also known as reunification camps, are often coined as educational seminars run by unlicensed “education” professionals and are being heavily marketed into the family court system. These programs are positioned as a mechanism to reunify children with their “alienated” or what they label as the targeted parent, which is often the child is being reunified with the alleged abusing parent in a family court case. This panel of experts and survivors will examine this phenomenon, its risks to children who have suffered abuse; and uncover why the federal government is not only urging, but incentivizing states to ban non-scientifically supported practices as part of the child safety measures incorporated into the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
To learn more about the panelists and to view the recording, please click here.
Family Court Awareness Month is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donations are appreciated, and really help us to keep shining the spotlight on the need to create a safer family court system. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided.
Critical Conversation: Protecting Children in Family Court Cases 2022
Critical Conversation: Protecting Children in Family Court Cases
It is conservatively estimated by the Leadership Council that 58,000 children are court-ordered into unsupervised visitation with unsafe parents. Allegations of abuse and concerns of child safety are met with suspicion, and pleas for safeguards and protection are often denied by family court professionals. Children, and the parents trying to protect them, are spending years immersed in abuse, trauma, and toxic stress and these are the cases that are considered lucky, because hundreds of children have been murdered in this context. Professionals and survivors discuss roadblocks to child safety and how they envision a family court system that protects children.
To learn more about the panelists and to view the recording, please click here.
Family Court Awareness Month is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donations are appreciated, and really help us to keep shining the spotlight on the need to create a safer family court system. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided.
Family Court Awareness Month Protest: Pontiac, Michigan 2022
We (FCAM, NSPO, One Moms Battle, Protective Parents Michigan, Mama Advocacy, and Midnight Courage) are hosting a protest Nov 5 at 1pm-4pm at Oakland county courthouse and a candlelight vigil following for the 33 children murdered in MI by divorcing/separating parent and to bring awareness to traumatic issues and how they’re seen and handled within the family court system. We will be honoring Maya and Sebastian as a focal point. #JusticeForMayaAndSebastian
Please come out with signage and be prepared to stand firm in our peaceful protest to demand protection for our children.
Follow signs to the North & West Entrances and Park in West Lot Public Parking
Critical Conversation: Post Separation Abuse 2022
Critical Conversation: Post Separation Abuse
Domestic abuse is about a need for power and control, and when the relationship ends that need doesn’t magically disappear. The family court system becomes the new platform for abuse, where abusers are hitting survivors where it hurts most, by directly harming or taking custody of their children. The family court system is tilted in an abuser's favor, and unfortunately abusers intuitively know that. In fact, abusive parents are more likely to seek sole custody than nonviolent ones and they are successful about 70% of the time, according to the American Psychological Association. Domestic abuse survivors are blindsided when they find themselves and their children further betrayed by a system that should protect them. Advocates discuss the precarious, bewildering nature of the family court system, offering insights and thoughts about solutions.
To learn more about the panelists and to view the recording, please click here.
Family Court Awareness Month is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your donations are appreciated, and really help us to keep shining the spotlight on the need to create a safer family court system. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided.
Lived and Learned: With Kelly Rutherford 2021
Join Knock Out Abuse West and Kelly Rutherford for, Lived and Learned.
West Sacramento Tree Planting Ceremony 2021
In West Sacramento, a tree planting ceremony is taking place on November 13, 2021, to honor the lives of local residents, Sophia and Sara Rouin who were murdered by their father in 2018. Sophia and Sara’s mother, Amy Hunter will be in attendance, surrounded by friends and family.
What Doesn't Kill Me (Movie Screening) 2021
Jenesse Center, Inc. - click here to get your ticket. Jenesse Center, Inc. is the organizer of “What Doesn’t Kill Me” Movie Screening and Candid Conversations.
Forward Together: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Protecting Children from Abuse 2021
This full-day virtual conference will offer multidisciplinary perspectives on protecting children from family violence in the context of child custody or divorce cases. National experts, leading legislators, inspirational survivors, and courageous kids will address policy reforms, health and trauma concerns, protective parenting, institutional betrayal, and intervention strategies.
To register: click here.
Together, attendees can move forward prioritizing child safety and health in family court cases.
This event is approved for 8.0 hours of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. The University of California, Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please email: centers@law.uci.edu.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE
CATHERINE CAMPBELL (CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION)
MOSES CASTILLO (DORDULIAN LAW GROUP)
ANA ESTEVEZ (PIQUI'S JUSTICE AND CHILD SAFETY ADVOCATE)
JENNIFER FREYD, PH.D. (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON AND CENTER FOR INSTITUTIONAL COURAGE)
JOAN MEIER (NATIONAL FAMILY VIOLENCE LAW CENTER AT GW LAW)
SENATOR DAVE MIN (CALIFORNIA'S 37TH SENATE DISTRICT)
DR. SANDRA MURRAY (UCI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)
DANIELLE POLLACK (NATIONAL FAMILY VIOLENCE LAW CENTER AT GW LAW)
JODI QUAS, PH.D. (UCI SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECOLOGY)
SANDRA ROSS (CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION)
ASSEMBLYWOMAN BLANCA RUBIO (CALIFORNIA'S 48TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT)
SENATOR SUSAN RUBIO (CALIFORNIA'S 22ND SENATE DISTRICT)
JANE STOEVER (UCI LAW AND UCI INITIATIVE TO END FAMILY VIOLENCE)
TINA SWITHIN (ONE MOM’S BATTLE AND FAMILY COURT ADVOCATE)
GRANT WYETH (MELBOURNE-BASED WRITER AND ACADEMIC)
Fort Lauderdale: Proclamation Honoring Ali and Greyson Kessler 2021
Honoring sweet Greyson Kessler and his momma, Ali Kessler.
Los Angeles, California 2020 FCAM Kick Off!
Live Streaming - #FamilyCourtAwarenessMonth
