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Supporting Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities: A Model Reunification Statute

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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.