A 1st, NAFPA's mission is to protect AA families through legislative and policy advocacy.
Detroit, MI
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NAFPA is a new groundbreaking 501c4 nonprofit organization exclusively devoted to the promotion, protection and preservation of the African American/Black family through vigorous and robust policy and legislative advocacy. NAFPA is the first of organization of its kind in the county. As an African American woman, former foster child, child welfare affected parent, long-time pro-Black parental rights activist, social justice advocate, parent mentor, writer, journalist, scholar and macro social worker, I founded NAFPA here in Detroit as a direct response to the racist and discriminatory child welfare policies that continue to target and destroy thousands of African American children and families. NAFPA’s mission is to diligently assist in raising public awareness of the systemic racism and institutional discrimination within the child welfare and criminal justice systems, which directly and negatively impact and affect African American families with the goal of facilitating policy and legislative reforms. I began my parental rights activist journey in 2015, a journey which would eventually lead me to the founding of NAFPA, after several of my own children were unjustly removed and my parental rights terminated by the Ohio child welfare system leaving me with severe PTSD and a burning desire to change the system so that no family would have to endure what I and my family had to. However, it was during my solo and ultimately unsuccessful legal battle, that I saw many other parents wrongly and permanently lose their children also. Most of these parents had a lot in common me, low-income and African American. I started my activism and advocacy with writing and blogging (I have written over 40 articles and my horrific, but all too common child welfare experience has been featured in Rise and Psychology Today magazine) and then moved on to direct political lobbying and advocacy. As I become more active in and dedicated to child welfare reform I noticed that, unlike Native Americans who too have a history of child welfare mistreatment, there was not a single organization that I, or other African American child welfare affected parents, could turn to that cared about what I was going through and that was specifically dedicated to the protection and preservation of African American families through child welfare political and legislative advocacy. Worse still, the situation has become dire, especially since ASFA was signed into law in 1997 by former president Bill Clinton, in that every day hundreds of child welfare affected African American families have their constitutional and civil rights violated by the system with dependency courts outright refusing to hold the system accountable. Every day in this country, hundreds of African American families are needlessly and permanently separated, creating legal orphans, due to the racist and white supremacist child welfare policies. Many of these African American children end up being adopted out to white foster parents through closed adoptions. And thus, the child welfare system has reduced African Americans back to slavery status. No longer able to decide our own destinies or to raise our own children. It these facts in mind, that the idea of NAFPA was born. That idea come into existence in September of 2019 Present policy and legislative priorities for NAFPA include: Repealing the Adoptions and Safe families Act of 1997 (also known as ASFA); supporting the Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act; establishing of a federal and state African American Child Welfare Act (AACWA) and establishing state reinstating of parental rights and open adoption legislation. NAFPA is currently 100% volunteer run. Any and all donations and membership dues will go to fund organizational and mission operations such as general start-up, individual parent representation, lobbying and media costs and expenses. With the money that we raise we will be able to cover travel expenses, office equipment/operation, website maintenance, parent representation, and consultation costs. With your help NAFPA can continue working to raising awareness and put laws on the books that will not only enable African American families, and indeed all families (i.e, repealing ASFA, reinstatement of parental rights legislation), to stay together but will finally hold government, specially child welfare officials, accountable for constructional and civil rights violations low-income parents and children.
For people interested in becoming a member of NAFPA the link to our membership application form is https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTZ_1MA10EERKU79xp8aBgmoESzT3RXxGBBv8fhSKUWWeCdAOLHYUJG-fmbrDmQXR49lEK-2Jv7Aqun/pub
For any interested in donating the link to NAFPA’s Official GoFundMe Page is https://www.gofundme.com/f/nafpa-organizationofficial-gofundme-site?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1&fbclid=IwAR0d_MRcCoz9FVXYmHgCWYoMKQRv_aJOFNaUUCP-7gIMWVjN3iz29vVCQFQ
For media requests, as well as for anyone interested in volunteering with us or privately supporting NAFPA please feel free to reach out to me personally via email at [email protected]. Thank you and God bless.
