Women Transforming Families: Rising to End Violence, Oppression, and the Legacy of Trauma (WTF) is a collective that promotes healing for institutional, historical, collective, community, and individual trauma that occurs at the intersections of domestic violence and the child protection system.
WTF engages the Black, Latinx, and Native American women working at the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare to reimagine practices, strategies, and alternatives that provide support to families in crisis; and to prevent removal of children from their non-offending parent/families, homes, and communities.
WTF’s focus is also to increase awareness of various forms of trauma caused by child welfare and other institutions, and to enhance communities’ ability to prevent and respond to domestic violence.
Undeterred
Produced by Ujima, undeterred is a film which highlights WTF women of color leaders working at the intersection of intimate partner violence and family involvement in the child welfare system.
The women portrayed in the film are fellows of the WTF Cohort sites in Austin and Houston, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Detroit, Michigan. The film provides a real-life glimpse into their lives and experiences as they focus on increasing awareness of system and community practices that contribute to disparate and disproportional surveillance rates and removal of Black, Native American, and Latinx children from their families.
View the documentary below:
