Slam the Gavel Amanda Wallace of Operation Stop CPS. Amanda received her Bachelor’s of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With a 10-year career as a Child Abuse Investigator, she worked throughout several counties in North Carolina. However, watching the rights of families decrease and the power of CPS increase, Amanda realized that she had become the silent enforcer for an oppressive system.
It was then that Amanda began to understand the ROOT CAUSE of the system and the perceived power given to CPS by society. With this. knowledge, Amanda co-authored the "Respond in Power Guide," a guide parents and caretakers can use when engaging with the system.
Amanda also founded Operation Stop CPS in May of 2021, a grassroots organization that works with families and community partners to resist local child welfare agencies.
Also, Amanda co-chairs the Black Mothers March on the White House coalition which held its first mobilization in Washington, D.C. in 2022 and Amanda is also a member of the "African National Women’s Organization.” There will be another march on MAY 14th, 2023 to Washington, D.C.
53% of all Black homes are investigated by child welfare officials. A simple knock on the door by a social worker can lead to demands to enter the home without a warrant, intense interrogations, and strip searches that often end with children traumatically being pulled from their parents arms. Over 200,000 children of color are currently in the custody of the government. Over 400,000 children are in the foster care system overall.
Many of these removals happen without consent or a court order and exploit families by then requiring them to complete unnecessary services (parenting classes, drug treatment, mental health evaluations) to reunify with their children. Most, if not all, of the service providers are contracted with the Government and have a financial incentive to continue to recommend that parents comply with the unnecessary services.
In every state, CPS essentially acts as a kidnapping gang to families powerless politically, economically and socially. Operation Stop CPS mission is to empower families to rise up and end the colonial hold of Child Protective Services, and reclaim power and control of our own children and community.
How Operation Stop CPS handles crisis is INSTEAD of calling cps, you would call the hotline to find resources or think through how you can respond to help the family in crisis. She is currently providing change agent services in the following states: NC, GA MD. They have come under attack due to their advocacy. Amanda has been hit with 3 restraining orders and have been charged twice.
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