Our Affiliates
Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint affiliate groups are state, provincial, local, national, international organizations and businesses that share our core values, philosophy, and policy positions.
Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint affiliate groups are state, provincial, local, national, international organizations and businesses that share our core values, philosophy, and policy positions. While not part of the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint in structure or governance, affiliate groups are highly aligned. Affiliate groups may have unique positions, programs, and goals; however, they should be aligned with our core beliefs and mission to inform changes in policy and practice to reduce and eliminate the use of punitive discipline and outdated behavioral management approaches and end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Our Core Beliefs
Affiliate groups should be aligned with our core beliefs, which include:
- We believe in the reduction and elimination of the use of physical restraint and seclusion wherever they occur.
- We believe in ending the use of corporal punishment in schools and homes across the world.
- We do not support compliance-based approaches to behavioral management, such as behaviorism.
- We support trauma-informed, neuroscience-aligned, relationship-driven, and collaborative approaches.
Obligations for Affiliate Groups
As an affiliate group, your group agrees to the following:
- Agree to support the core beliefs of the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint.
- Provide an organizational contact who will provide regular updates related to your group’s activity.
- Display an Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint affiliate graphic on your website or social media.
- Speak on behalf of your organization and refer people to the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint for our positions.
Benefits for Affiliate Groups
There are many benefits for affiliate groups, including:
- AASR can provide guidance and support.
- AASR can amplify your message and reach.
- AASR can help support your local advocacy efforts.
- AASR can facilitate peer support.
Our Affiliate Groups
Affiliate groups are listed here to raise awareness, encourage collaboration, and help interested individuals connect with national, international, and local groups.
International
Neurodiverzita.cz
Neurodiverzita.cz is the leading Czech resource on neurodiversity and neurodivergence. The goal for Neurodiverzita.cz is to provide you with everything you need to ensure the best possible future for yourself, your child, your family, or your clients, friends, colleagues or acquaintances. To that end, we work with experts and communities from around the world.
Website: www.neurodiverzita.cz
National
Exceptional Needs Today
The mission of Exceptional Needs Today is to provide support and FREE resources for families, educators, professionals, and self-advocates on a variety of topics. We aim to educate and energize all individuals who seek special services while creating opportunities to connect and grow. We work to promote awareness, acceptance, and inclusiveness for all people.
Website: exceptionalneedstoday.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/exceptionalneedstoday
Twitter: twitter.com/Exceptionalmag
Instagram: instagram.com/exceptionalneedstoday
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/exceptional-needs-today
Kids Over Profits
Kids Over Profits is a collaborative of institutional abuse survivors and advocates who aim to increase transparency and awareness surrounding the Troubled Teen Industry. Kids Over Profits provide educational and archival materials demonstrating the harms of coercive residential treatment for youth.
Website: https://kidsoverprofits.org
Facebook: facebook.com/kidsoverprofits
YouTube: youtube.com/@kidsoverprofits
Instagram: instagram.com/kidsoverprofits
Making Sense of Autism
Making Sense of Autism serves families and professionals supporting autistic individuals in the Phoenix metro and Denver metro areas in person, and virtually throughout the USA.
Their mission is to foster meaningful connections and understanding between autistic individuals and those who are not, promoting inclusivity, empathy, and mutual respect.
Website: www.makingsenseofautism.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/making.sense.of.autism
Instagram: www.instagram.com/making.sense.of.autism
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6bdTiPSoD-ECoTlrNzsyhg
Mothers on the Frontline
Our mission is to promote children’s mental health justice, caregiver justice, and caregiver healing through storytelling. Our vision is a world in which all children are safe and able to thrive because their unique educational, social, emotional, and health needs are genuinely met.
Website: www.mothersonthefrontline.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MothersOTFL
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mothersotfl/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mothers-on-the-frontlne
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@mothersonthefrontline
Project Isaiah
Project Isaiah exists to dismantle school-based trauma by centering the lens of Black boys (including intersections with ability.) We elevate lived experiences, conduct community-driven research, and our goal in year two of programming is to co-create tools that help educators, caregivers, and communities to create healing-centered spaces where Black children can learn AND thrive.
We envision a world where Black boys are free to lead, learn, and live without fear—where their brilliance is nurtured, their voices are valued, and their schools become places of growth, not harm. Through collaboration, advocacy, and innovation, Project Isaiah is contributing to a future where healing and liberation are at the heart of education.
Website: www.weareprojectisaiah.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SupportProjectIsaiah
LinkTree: linktr.ee/projectisaiah
Instagram: www.instagram.com/weareprojectisaiah
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-hanson-9678a65b
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective
What we do: Champion a transformative vision of acceptance and equitable inclusion for autistic, other-neurodivergent, and other-disabled people. Offer unparalleled, free and affordable public education that upholds the value of neurodiversity, highlighting contemporary autism research, trauma-informed practices, and methodologies built on presuming competence and upholding dignity and human rights. Foster partnerships and professional growth for our therapist members aligned with the neurodiversity paradigm.
Website: https://therapistndc.org/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/NeurodiversityCollective
Twitter: twitter.com/therapist_ndc
Instagram: instagram.com/therapistndc/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/therapist-neurodiversity-collective
U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children
The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2011 that brings together individuals, groups, and organizations to create a unified voice calling for, and working toward, an end to corporal punishment – an antiquated and dangerous form of disciplining a child – especially in schools and homes.
Website: exceptionalneedstoday.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Endhitting
Twitter: twitter.com/endhitting
Instagram: instagram.com/endhittingusa
Vinnie Stars
Vinnie’s mission is to advocate for neurologically and otherwise vulnerable / disabled children and families who are in severe distress and get ‘seen’ as ‘defiant’ and ‘violent’. To elevate narratives of PDA. To connect with AASR and continue to channel people, stories, missions for the AASR cause. Bringing light to unintentional abuse and the disconnect when avoidant systems assume a power dynamic that a ‘child’ or person is ‘violent’ but the system is not.
Website: www.vinniestars.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/SquarePegRoundSouls
Idaho
Idahoans for Safe Schools
We are parents and partners creating change in Idaho Public Schools. We are working towards changing school culture, policy, and practices regarding the inappropriate use of restraints, seclusion, and corporal punishment. We are working to save lives, eliminate trauma, and protect all students with better approaches to school discipline.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/6082510268445051
Kentucky
KY Parents Against Inappropriate Restraint and Seclusion
To come together as a community of fellow advocates to collectively impact adult perceptions in leadership about the dangers of restraint and seclusion and/or prevent any form of retaliation against citizens of any class peacefully exercising their rights to influence policy reform and/or request unbiased investigations and accountability to ensure the humane treatment of all fellow humanbeings as students, advocating parents (including guardians & caregivers), inmates, and patients/the disabled community.
Our vision is to PAIR UP (collaborate) with various groups/independent advocates, organizations and affiliations to impact local, state, federal and global communities. We are stronger a family of advocates in one mind and one accord than we are apart.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61565190811273
Instagram: www.instagram.com/ky_pairs
Massachusetts
Justice For Our Angels
Our mission is to get justice for the loved ones we have needlessly lost to institutional abuse, the survivors left with a lifetime trauma, and to prevent further loss and trauma at the hands of UHS and other institutions by bringing awareness and passing legislation.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ForProfitMentalHealthReform
Twitter: twitter.com/JusticeForOurA2
Instagram: instagram.com/justiceforourangels20
YouTube: youtube.com/channel/
Michigan
Michigan Advocates to End Seclusion and Restraint (EndSaR)
Michigan Advocates to End Seclusion and Restraint will work to end the practices of seclusion and restraint in Michigan schools through student advocacy, educator support, parent education, quality control, and legislative change.
Website: www.endsar-mi.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/EndSaRMI
Missouri
Missouri Parents of Kids Subjected to Restraint and Seclusion in School
This group is for parents of children who have been subjected to the aversive techniques of restraint and seclusion in school. This is a safe place to share your story without judgement, share ideas and information on restraint and seclusion laws, brainstorm on ideas to stop restraint and seclusion in school, and provide support to other parents. Please read all rules before posting in the group.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/937336354003205
New Jersey
End Seclusion and Restraint – New Jersey
EndSaR-NJ believes that no child deserves to be locked in a room or restrained. We believe this more than most because we have had to pick up the pieces after our children, grandchildren, clients and loved ones have experienced this trauma. Our goal is to make New Jersey schools safer for students and staff members by advocating that keeping students safe happens long before a crisis. We are working to create legislation, and educational opportunities in our communities to show that there are better ways of supporting our most vulnerable students through trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, neuroscience-aligned, collaborative and relationship-based approaches.
Website: www.endsar-nj.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/people/Endsarnj/61566555472033
Instagram: www.instagram.com/endsar_nj
New York
Keep All Students Safe – NY
We are organizing to promote bills that will protect disabled students in NY and nationally. This group aims to gather concerned citizens from every legislative district in NY to make their representatives aware of this bill and to demand their support.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/281559623696834/
Teen Advocators
Teen Advocators is a youth organization set to amplify youth voices, advocate for change, and serve the community. We are currently working on the issue of Seclusion and Restraint.
Website: teenadvocators.wixsite.com
LinkTree: linktr.ee/Teen_Advocators
TikTok: tiktok.com/@teenadvocators
Instagram: instagram.com/teens_advocators
YouTube: youtube.com/@TeenAdvocators
North Carolina
Love Our Children NC
The Mission of Love Our Children NC is to educate the public and school districts in North Carolina about practices and programs that facilitate learning and to advocate for changes in policies that will improve the quality of life for children and their families.
The vision is to end the use of all exclusionary discipline practices in North Carolina and instead use trauma-informed, neuroscience-aligned, and collaborative strategies that keep our children in school where they can learn and thrive.
Website: www.loveourchildrennc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/loveourchildrennc
Instagram: www.instagram.com/loveourchildrennc1
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@LoveOurChildrenNC-locnc
North Carolina Advocates Against Seclusion and Restraint (NCAASR)
A group of North Carolina advocates dedicated to the reduction and elimination of seclusion and restraint with children by supporting families, schools and legislation. We support trauma-informed, neuroscience-aligned, relationship-driven, and collaborative approaches.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/endseclusionnc
Oregon
Ducks Against ABA (DAABA)
Ducks Against ABA (DAABA) is a grassroots survivor and advocate-led group with the goal of educating students and professionals across disciplines on behaviorism abolition, neuro-affirming and trauma-informed practices, and creating social change through awareness and social connectedness.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/daabauo
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Parents Against Seclusion and Restraint (PPASR)
Pennsylvania Parents Against Seclusion and Restraint (PPASR) is an advocacy group that aims to end the use of seclusion and restraint in Pennsylvania schools and other settings. We advocate for alternative approaches that prioritize student safety, well-being, and positive behavioral supports. If you’re interested in learning more or getting involved with PPASR, you can find them on social media on Facebook at Pennsylvania Parents Against Seclusion and Restraint.
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