Community Defense
About
Reuniting Families Contra Costa (RFCC) is a community-rooted organization dedicated to restoring hope, dignity, and justice for marginalized communities most impacted by the criminal legal and family policing systems. RFCC emerged as a beacon of solidarity across Contra Costa County and surrounding East Bay counties, founded by directly impacted community members who recognized the urgent need for mutual support, community-led advocacy, and resistance to structural oppression.
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Community Defense
RFCC is expanding its community organizing work to support post-conviction, resentencing, and family reunification efforts through the creation of social biographies that center the humanity, healing, and lived experiences of system-impacted individuals and families. For incarcerated people, these biographies document critical mitigating factors—such as childhood trauma, systemic barriers, and other causative conditions—while uplifting remorse, insight, and rehabilitation demonstrated through in-prison programming, education, and transformation. RFCC uses the same trauma-informed strategies to support families whose children have been removed by Child Protective Services, helping them prepare narratives and evidence for juvenile dependency and probate courts. These biographies highlight parents’ growth, healing work, stability efforts, and the systemic conditions that contributed to family separation, while also developing detailed reunification or reentry plans. By combining storytelling, documentation, and community support, RFCC challenges dehumanizing system narratives, promotes trauma-responsive decision-making, and strengthens pathways for families to reunify with their children.