Resources and Links
Allied Organizations
Mother's outreach Network
KFT
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IN SOLIDARITY
Toolkits and Links
Toolkit
From the National Harm Reduction Coalition and the Academy of Perinatal harm Reduction- this comprehensive and judgment free toolkit is a valuable tool for Birthing parents who use substances.
Drug User Organizing
"We Are Somebody" is a manual for movement building and supporting for People Who Use substances. You Can download a copy here at VANDU's resource page- (lots of other great materials here)
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Legal Rights
"Parents’ Rights, Kids’ Rights A Parent’s Guide to Child Protection Law in BC" Explains what happens if the Director of Child Protection has concerns about a child’s safety or plans to remove a child from the family home. Describes the child protection process for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and families, including:
Indigenous Rights
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Reading
'How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action'- From leading abolitionist organizers, a much-needed intervention arguing that the systems that purport to protect children make them—and our communities—less safe.
Crackdown asks us to radically reimagine our approach to drug use, and to envisage a system that helps rather than harms. by Garth Mullins
The only book-length Canadian history of the harm done from criminalizing heroin users and addicts, the most horrendous being overdose epidemics caused by poisoned drugs. by Susan Boyd
'With Child'- Substance Use During Pregnancy, A Woman-Centered Approach by Susan Boyd