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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
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
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.
National
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
National
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Legal Aid Chicago
metro-legal-aid
Free civil legal services in Cook County, including domestic-violence protection, juvenile expungement, and housing defense.
Chicago Metro
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.
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
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
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.
California State
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.
