These resources focus on supporting parents experiencing mental health challenges. This includes supportive resources and educational documents.
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 health advocates, and legislators.