East Bay Family Defender Project at Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

The East Bay Family Defenders Project at LSPC will continue to support a nationally growing family defense movement through the following program activities:

• training, technical assistance and consultation to parents, family members and community-based organizations working to keep families together and prevent the unnecessary and prolonged stay of children in foster care;
• limited individualized legal advice and representation, with priority to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents, to prevent family separation and remove barriers to family reunification;
• training and supervision of law and social work students; and 
• participation in organizing and advocacy aimed at ending family policing and creating a world where all families can thrive.