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Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect Laws in Pennsylvania – A Training Handout

This is a guide for parents who have lost custody or are facing the possibility of custody loss. It includes a detailed overview of what constitutes child abuse and neglect in PA, as well as a discussion of parents rights with regard to custody and family reunification.

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Trauma: The Impact of Removing Children from the Home

This fact sheet summarizes research on the trauma experienced by children when removed from the home due to a parent’s mental illness. It emphasizes the importance of minimizing trauma by providing appropriate support to both the child and parent.

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Stress Reduction: Physical Health and Wellness

This document will give tools for maintaining your physical health and wellness. We will discuss how good nutrition, exercise and healthy sleep habits will positively affect your physical wellness and lower your stress. Other aspects of maintaining your physical health, such as making regular doctor visits and handling medication issues, will also be discussed.

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Stress Reduction: Parenting Techniques Ages 4-9

This document covers some of the areas of concern to parents of children ages 4-9 and we will provide some tips for how to deal with stressful situations that may occur. Some of these tips will be directly related to reducing your stress while others may be more general.

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Stress Reduction: Parenting Techniques Ages 14-18

This document covers some of the areas of concern to parents of children ages 14 to 18 and we will provide some tips for how to deal with stressful situations that may occur when parenting an adolescent. Some of these tips will be directly related to reducing your stress while others may be more general.

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Stress Reduction: Parenting Techniques Ages 10-13

This document covers some of the areas of concern to parents of children ages 10-13 and we will provide some tips for how to deal with stressful situations that may occur when parenting a tween. Some of these tips will be directly related to reducing your stress while others may be more general

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Stress Reduction: Parenting Techniques Ages 0-3

This document covers some of the areas of concern to parents of children ages 0-3 and we will provide some tips for how to deal with stressful situations that may occur. Some of these tips will be directly related to reducing your stress while others may be more general.

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Stress Reduction: Emotional Health and Wellness

This document discusses how you can reduce your stress by taking care of your mental and emotional health. Working at staying healthy emotionally will reduce your stress; it might improve your mental health so you have fewer symptoms or less of a need for emergency interventions.

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Preventing Custody Loss: Suggestions for Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities

The best way to prevent custody loss is to have a plan that helps consumers improve their parenting skills while managing their disability. This brief tool provides suggestions on how to create a plan to protect the best interests of your child and to demonstrate your maturity as a parent.

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Positive Parenting and Child Resilience – A Training Handout

This document provides information on the unique challenges faced by parents with mental health conditions. It outlines common barriers, available support, and resources. It may be useful for consumers, providers, policymakers, and stakeholders.

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Peers in Practice: Parents with Mental Health Issues

Our first Peers in Practice document, written by Fred McLaren, MS, CPS, looks at the challenges of parenting with a mental health condition and the role Peer Specialists can play in supporting their clients with the needs and challenges of parenting.

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Parenting With a Mental Illness video

Various factors such as discrimination, lack of supports, and high levels of stress can all lead to complications as a parent with a mental illness. During the webinar we will discuss strategies parents can use.

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Parenting With a Mental Illness

This document informs stakeholders about challenges faced by parents with mental health conditions. It provides information on common barriers, available support, and resources from Temple University Collaborative. Useful for consumers, policymakers, providers, and stakeholders.

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Myths about Parents with Mental Illnesses

This brief fact sheet looks at the prevailing myths about parents with mental illnesses (e.g., that they are unwilling or unable to care adequately for their own children, etc.) with the evidence-based facts with regard to parenting performance and long-term outcomes a useful guide to consumers and advocates

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Mental Health and Parenting: Self-care, Relpase Prevention and Crisis Planning – parenting materials

If you have a psychiatric disability, you will likely experience periods of remission, or times when your symptoms are not present. This document discusses what are replases and why they happen, and provides tools and tips to preventing and planning for replases.

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Mental Health and Parenting: How Your Disability Affects Your Child – parenting materials

The goal of this guide is to give you a better understanding of your mental health and its effects on your child. It will provide guidance to examine the impact of mental health issues on your family, including how to recognize whether your child has a mental health issue.

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Mental Health and Parenting: Helping Your Child Cope – parenting materials

This document can give you tools and tips to help your child cope. Even though it may be difficult to help your children cope, you have the ability to make thoughtful decisions about how you want to help them, and this, in turn, will foster much resilience in your children.

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Leisure Education Toolkit for Parents with Mental Illnesses

This toolkit provides evidence-based strategies to help parents understand and participate in meaningful family leisure. It includes research, worksheets, and activities to overcome barriers and improve family relationships.

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Learn About Special Needs Trusts

“A Special Needs Trust can be created by a parent or guardian to benefit a person with a disability upon the death of a parent, allowing consumers to benefit from the trust while continuing to receive public benefits. This document was developed by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law with support from the TU Collaborative.”

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Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back: Section II – Handouts

This addendum to Section I of the training program on Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back includes key handouts on child welfare and custody issues, positive parenting, child resilience, parenting resources, and additional resources for parents.

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Keeping Your Children and Getting Them Back: Section I – Guidebook

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.

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Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – Training Manual

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

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Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – PowerPoints

Temple University Collaborative’s PowerPoint presentations and training notes offer mental health personnel a step-by-step guideline for initial training to assist consumers with psychiatric disabilities in improving their parenting skills and avoiding loss of custody of their children.

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Helping Behavioral Health Consumers with Parenting/Child Custody Issues – Group Exercises

Temple University Collaborative’s training program offers large and small group exercises to prepare staff in working with parents with psychiatric disabilities. Some exercises are available here to complement the overall training program and PowerPoint provided above.

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Foster Care and Custody

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 care providers.

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Custody Assessment Worksheet

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.

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Child Welfare and Custody Issues

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.

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Child Development: Ages 4-9

An important part of parenting is knowing what to expect from your child at any given age. As they grow, children change and acquire skills, and they require differ-ent things from you. This document highlights some of the things you might expect to see in your young child.

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Child Development: Ages 14-18

An important part of parenting involves knowing what to expect from your child at any given age. As they grow, children change and acquire skills, and they require different things from you. This document highlights some of the things you might expect to see in your adolescent.

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Child Development: Ages 10-13

An important part of parenting is knowing what to expect from your child at any given age. As they grow, children change and acquire skills, and they require different things from you. This document covers some of the things you might expect to see in your emerging adolescent.

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Child Development: Ages 0-3

An important part of parenting is knowing what to expect from your child at any given age. As they grow, children change and acquire skills, and they require different things from you. This documetnt highlights some of the things you might expect to see in your young child.

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Child Custody Laws

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.

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A Parenting Resources Worksheet

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.

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A Model Reunification Statute

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 health advocates, and legislators.

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