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A name on this page is an educational referral after a public-footprint screen. It is not a warranty, not a retainer, and not a diagnosis. Local listings still win when you need a body in a particular courtroom.

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The living directory starts with a national card and grows by jurisdiction. If you need help this week, start the packet anyway. It will give you next steps and a way to walk into someone’s office without handing them chaos.

Lilly Landikusic, LMFT · Empowerment Online

national-clinician

A leading national voice for parents in resist-refuse and contact-rupture weather. Descriptive alienation as a map, not a PAS score. Trauma-informed co-parenting only after a safety screen. Lived child separation. This platform is inspired by her work.

National Advocacy & Greater Salt Lake Clinician
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Voices of Hope

parent-peers

A national network of parents living through high-conflict custody, separation, contact rupture, and inter-family trauma. Peer weather first. Not a clinic and not a Lincoln, Nebraska crisis agency.

National
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National Domestic Violence Hotline

crisis-intervention

Immediate crisis support, safety planning, and local referrals. Free, confidential, and available 24/7. Text START to 88788 if speaking is unsafe.

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National
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National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health

policy-training

Resources at the intersection of domestic violence, trauma, and mental health. Helps survivors and systems treat freeze as a body event, not as proof the parent does not care.

National
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National Family Violence Law Center

legal-research

National research desk on family-court outcomes, abuse allegations, and alienation cross-claims. Use the numbers as system-risk education, not as a diagnosis of the other parent.

National
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National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)

national-advocacy

National voice for survivors. Toolkits, financial safety planning, and technology-safety resources when devices, money, and the docket are part of the control regime.

National
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National Safe Parents Coalition

policy-advocacy

Coalition of safe parents and advocates working to pass Kayden's Law state-by-state so child safety precedes forced contact.

National
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National Center for Youth Law

youth-legal-advocacy

Transforms the systems that hit youth: juvenile justice, child welfare, and educational equity. Youth agency is the point, not a footnote in an adult file.

National
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The Gault Center

youth-defender

Excellence in youth defense. Youth are not collateral. They have rights that have to be defended in the room.

National
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Breaking Code Silence

placement-tools

Survivor-led nonprofit working to stop abuse inside the Troubled Teen Industry. Public tools and advocacy when the weather is wilderness, residential, or another locked program. We do not administer placements.

National
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Unsilenced

placement-tools

Survivor-led record and toolkit on wilderness programs, residential facilities, and other locked placements. Built to stop institutional child abuse and reform the Troubled Teen Industry. We do not speak for them.

National
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Defense Center for Criminalized Survivors (BWJP)

criminal-defense-support

Support for survivors charged with crimes tied to their abuse or to a failure-to-protect theory. Stops the second prosecution of the person who was already surviving.

National
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Center for Judicial Excellence

judicial-accountability

Educates the public and lawmakers on family-court reform and tracks child homicides in custody disputes. A public-record desk, not a filing kit.

National
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National Disability Rights Network

disability-rights

National Protection and Advocacy network. The door when family trauma hits disability accommodations, ADA Title II in court, or a freeze that the docket is calling noncompliance.

National
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Generations United

kinship-advocacy

Leading voice for grandfamilies and kinship care. When removal is the product the system knows how to sell, this is the map for keeping a child inside the extended family.

National
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Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)

national-advocacy

Protects the civil rights of students with disabilities and their families. Use this door when an IEP fight is being used as the on-ramp to a locked program.

National
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Military OneSource

national-advocacy

Confidential support and legal-assistance routing for service members and military families in deployment, family-law, and domestic-violence weather. Command structure is part of the map.

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National
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National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)

national-advocacy

National advocacy for Native children and families. ICWA compliance so indigenous youth are not extracted into non-Native foster or residential care.

National
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National Family Court Watch Project

judicial-accountability

Independent courtroom observation. Turns family-court practice in coercive-control, custody, and child-protection files into public data. Accountability desk, not a lawyer.

National
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National Kinship Alliance for Children

kinship-advocacy

National coalition for grandparents and other non-parent caregivers. Policy and network work so kinship is a real alternative to congregate care.

National
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Tahirih Justice Center

immigrant-legal-aid

Free legal and social services for immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence. A body in the immigration-and-family-court overlap, not a slogan.

National
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Texas RioGrande Legal Aid

regional-legal-aid

Represents residents in 68 Texas counties. Domestic-violence, farmworker, housing, and family-preservation legal work when a body in that courtroom is the need.

Texas Regional
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Utah Legal Services

regional-legal-aid

Statewide civil legal aid in Utah. Domestic violence, eviction, and family-preservation matters for people who cannot buy a private voice.

Utah State
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California Protective Parents Association

state-advocacy

Advocates for protective parents in California family court. Pushes back when safety behavior is rewritten as gatekeeping and when custody is used as the weapon.

California State
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East Bay Community Law Center

metro-legal-aid

Holistic legal clinic in Alameda County. Poverty, housing, education defense, and immigrant youth work aimed at keeping families intact.

Berkeley Metro
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Legal Aid Chicago

metro-legal-aid

Free civil legal services in Cook County, including domestic-violence protection, juvenile expungement, and housing defense.

Chicago Metro
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Sanctuary for Families

metro-legal-aid

New York's leading provider for survivors of domestic violence and sex trafficking. Free legal services, clinical support, and shelter. No judgment at the door.

NYC boroughs.
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Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County

metro-legal-aid

No-cost legal help for domestic-violence survivors, abused children, and vulnerable adults in Palm Beach family-court weather.

Palm Beach Metro
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Children's Law Center

youth-legal-advocacy

Direct representation so children in DC can stay with a safe family, stay healthy, and stay in school. Child-welfare and custody, not a parent-side brand.

DC Metro
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Children's Law Center of California

youth-defender

Direct legal representation for youth in California child-welfare courts. The child's voice and safety, not the agency brochure, decide the next placement.

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California State
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NYS Kinship Navigator

kinship-advocacy

Statewide information, referral, and education hub for New York grandparents and relatives raising children. Money, legal standing, and the next adult in the room.

New York State
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Children's Service Society of Utah

kinship-advocacy

Runs Utah's GRANDfamilies kinship navigator. Case management and education so a relative home beats a congregate bed.

Utah State
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