This trainers’ guide was developed by consultants to the Temple University Collaborative and offers a comprehensive overview for training mental health personnel to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in understanding child abuse laws and custody issues.
This manual offers a detailed guideline for trainers developing programs to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in improving their parenting skills, understanding child custody issues, and either avoiding or regaining custody of their children. It includes curriculum, PowerPoints, and exercises.
This fact sheet provides an overview of national and state foster care services and how they interact with parents with mental illnesses who have been denied custody of their children. It offers suggestions for parents and others interacting with foster… Read More »Foster Care and Custody
This worksheet allows mental health personnel to make a comprehensive assessment of particular parents child custody arrangement, which may be complicated, as an aide to working with parents to improve parenting skills and prevent loss of custody.
Designed for parents and their supporters, this fact sheet offers tips for navigating the child welfare and legal systems, particularly for parents with psychiatric disabilities facing custody challenges and system discrimination.
This fact sheet provides a national overview of custody laws regarding the use of mental illness as grounds for denying custody to parents with psychiatric disabilities. It offers recommendations for challenging discriminatory laws through education, public awareness, and legislative change.
This worksheet provides a template for services to generate a list of local resources for parents with psychiatric disabilities, including legal, housing, emergency respite services, and childcare, etc.
Temple University Collaborative and the Bazelon Center created a model statute for state legislatures to encourage keeping families together by preventing the use of mental illness as grounds for denying custody rights to disabled parents. Useful for consumers, lawyers, mental… Read More »Supporting Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Model Reunification Statute
This manual lists support, personal growth, wellness, and entertainment opportunities for students on campus. It offers tips on maximizing the benefits of college life, including arts, health, academics, and mental wellness. Customize it for your college and include contact details… Read More »Your College Community: How People with Psychiatric Disabilities Can Make the Most of Their College Experience
We sat down with a former member of the Temple University Collaborative team, Paige O’Sullivan, who was our Supported Education interventionist. She discusses what she did in this role, and why it’s important.
