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The clubhouse family legal support project: A framework for replication and development

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This report highlights the Clubhouse Family Legal Support Project (CFLSP) that provides support and resources to parents with psychiatric disabilities facing legal barriers to participation in the parenting role. The purpose is to describe the program and its potential for and barriers to expansion. Two months of intensive observation in civil court and interviews with key program practitioners were conducted culminating with the presented logic model and case examples. Taken together, both articulate the program framework and the complex custody issues experienced by parents with psychiatric disabilities. Taken together both and provide an initial framework for program replication and future development.

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