Links + Resources

Social Work Action Network

SWAN is a radical, campaigning organization of social work and social care practitioners, students, service users, carers and academics.

Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement

SWASC’s Solitary Confinement Educator’s Toolkit

To receive SWASC’s  End Solitary! e-newsletters listed on our website, click on  the Heading “Newsletters”, scroll to “Sign Here”

Social Welfare Action Alliance

History of the Social Welfare Action Alliance

Presentation and Discussion with Fred Newdom

SWAA Bibliography

December 2021 List of “Radical Human Service” Websites/Links (Ongoing Updates)

Organizations and Partners

Kairos Center

The Kairos Center, housed at Union Theological Seminary, is a national organization committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor. Drawing on the power of religions and human rights, we are a center for movement strategy, coordination, and education among the poor across all lines of division. Among other projects, we co-anchor the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.

The National Union of the Homeless

The heart and soul of the National Union of the Homeless is to commit our lives to ending homelessness and poverty and to work tirelessly for the human right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for social and economic justice for all.

National Welfare Rights Union 

The National Welfare Rights Union is an organization of, by, and for the poor in the United States and beyond. “We are building a social movement committed to ending poverty and ensuring a better world for our children and ourselves. We are dedicated to unity among low-income, public assistance recipients, and the unemployed.”

“Take our poverty, not our children!”

Human rights day truth commission with the National Welfare Rights Union and the National Union of the Homeless – December 10, 2021

“It’s not just in your head” Podcast 

Two mental health professionals explore how our capitalist economic system impacts our emotional lives. From precarious housing and employment, to unaffordable healthcare, to endless debt — it’s not just in your head

Child Welfare System Resources

Just Making a Change for Families

Works to abolish the current punitive child welfare system and to strengthen the systems of supports that keep families and communities together.

Just The upEND Movement

A collaborative movement that works to abolish the existing child welfare system, which is built on a model of surveillance and separation and more accurately described as a family policing system. Abolition requires ending this oppressive system AND imagining and recreating the ways in which society supports children, families, and communities in being safe and thriving.

Mandated Reporting is Not Neutral

The Mandatory Reporting is Not Neutral project works to share survivor stories about the impact of mandatory reporting, educate communities on harm reduction practices and change the conditions that lead to violence and abuse.

Human Rights Watch

“If I Wasn’t Poor, I Wouldn’t Be Unfit” The Family Separation Crisis in the US Child Welfare System