The Movement · Families working for change
Parents, advocates, and organizations are working for family rights, due process, and accountability. This is a place to find each other, learn what each effort does, and choose where you can help.
Different projects. Shared purpose. More people doing the work.
A place beyond Facebook
Carey Ann George, a mom in Ohio, created the Family Rights Movement community on Kollab and invited us to work together there. It is free to join, with areas for discussions, learning, events, and connecting with other members. People from any state can join.
Join Family Rights Movement on KollabThe group is currently public. Keep children’s identifying details and private case documents out of posts and comments.
A growing directory
Start with these communities and projects. Each leads its own work; explore its mission and choose the way you want to participate.
Family rights · Public education · Reform
A public education and reform platform with a child-centered justice framework, focused on attachment and meaningful relationships with both safe parents.
Explore the framework and connect with the organizing community on Kollab.
Visit Family Rights Movement Join the Kollab communityCivil rights · Due process · Constitutional safeguards
A national, non-partisan civil-rights organization focused on due process, equal protection, and constitutional safeguards in state family courts through education and advocacy.
Meet Shannon’s work, explore the project’s resources, and find ways to participate.
Visit The Due Process ProjectFamily-reported records · Journalism · Accountability
Families' reported experiences become a public registry, reports, and conversations about family court and child welfare. Meg brings the record into view through journalism and advocacy.
Explore the public report, share your experience through the survey, and follow the work.
Explore Stand With Meg Open the public reportPeople · Skills · Working together
A place to raise your hand and tell Meg how you want to help: research, outreach, organizing, public education, and the projects bringing families together.
Bring your skills, choose the work you want to support, and help build the coalition.
Join the CoalitionRecords · Fraud-reporting education · Public sources
Meg and criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walk through source documents and teach families how to organize records and understand possible fraud reporting. General education, not legal advice for your case.
Watch the episodes, read the public documents, and help more families find the work.
Open The Shawn Lee ReportFamilies’ stories · Conversations · Public education
A show from Stand With Meg where parents tell their family-court stories in their own words. Mandy Reed leads the conversations, with ways to watch, apply as a guest, and support the show.
Watch the conversations or learn how to share your story as a guest.
Open On the RecordFunding questions · Research · Public records
Meg and Chan’s project for examining the money behind family court and child support systems. Bring research, public-records, writing, or outreach skills to help explain what the records show.
Explore the work and choose Follow the Money when you sign up for the coalition.
Explore Follow the MoneyInterviews · Evidence · Accountability
Conversations with families, attorneys, advocates, and reformers about what families are reporting and the work of changing the system.
Watch the show, share the conversations, or offer your skills through the coalition.
Open The Stand With Meg ShowMake the circle bigger
If you lead a family-rights, due-process, or court-accountability effort, send Meg your name, public website, where you work, and a short description of what you do. Help families find you.
If the search is CPS help for parents, the family-reported record is the place to start.