Alan Dettlaff
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Alan J. Dettlaff is Professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, where he also served as Dean from 2015 to 2022. In 2020 he helped to create and launch the upEND movement, a collaborative effort dedicated to abolishing the family policing system and building alternatives that focus on healing and liberation. He is the author of Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition.
