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Please note, we cannot provide legal advice nor can we provide mental health advice. If you are experiencing domestic violence and need immediate assistance, please contact the Domestic Violence Hotline 24/7: Text "START" to 88788. call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233), or visit www.thehotline.org. If you’re thinking about suicide, are worried about a friend or loved one, or would like emotional support, the Lifeline network is available 24/7 across the United States. The Lifeline is available for everyone, is free, and confidential. https://988lifeline.org/talk-to-someone-now/. If you are seeking Emergency Housing, to obtain a local DV advocate or other resources available to you in your community, please visit www.domesticshelters.org (U.S. & Canada).  If you are in the UK and are seeking Domestic Violence support, please call 0808 2000 247 or visit refuge.org.uk/. ​

​We created Custody Peace to raise awareness around coercive control and how this impacts the conditions in our homes and throughout our world, including in our schools, workplaces, legal system, various institutions and our planet as a whole. On a micro and macro level, the tactics of abusers/oppressors are the same. They are rooted in the perpetuation of separation from health, support, family, land, culture, truth, and from oneself.

Our goal is to evolve the conditions within our systems through solution-based awareness building, evolved thinking, education, resources, community care, and collective advocacy so that cycles of abuse are replaced with natural cycles of health for all ―with a special focus on mothers and their children.

We look forward to providing additional resources and raising awareness so that we may all cultivate health and peace in our systems, relationships & lives.
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Here are quick links to our most popular resources:

Raise Your Awareness: 

• CP Journal: Curated news, original reporting and stories from around the globe that raise awareness and inspire the redesign of our systems so that cycles of abuse can be replaced with natural cycles of health and peace. 
• UN REPORT: Custody, violence against women and violence against children – Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem Published on April 13, 2023 and Submitted to the UN Human Rights Council

• Th​ey will use the systems intended to protect you, to control you.  This article examines Post Separation Abuse, Coercive Control, and the Family Court System. ​Written with contribution and advisement from Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, Doctor of Clinical Social Welfare, Coercive Control Educator/Researcher, and Dr. Emma Katz, Global Coercive Control Expert and Author of “Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives”.
• Understanding High-Conflict Personalities & The Impacts on Custody Cases (Research and Resources): Lumping in a protective, safe parent with a high-conflict personality and defining the case as "high-conflict" can lead to dangerous outcomes and perpetuate the ongoing abuse of protective parents and their children. These cases are not "high conflict," they are the perpetuation of post-separation abuse at the hands of an unsafe parent.
• Custody Peace on Medium 

Legal Resources: 

• Family Legal Resource Library – California (Family Violence Appellate Project)
• Washington Legal Resource Library (Family Violence Appellate Project)
• National Resources (Family Violence Appellate Project) 
• Cases You Can Use – California (Family Violence Appellate Project) 
• Cases You Can Use – Washington (Family Violence Appellate Project)  ​

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