Cooperative Parenting in Divorce
Custody Evaluations
Parenting Time Evaluations: A custody evaluation would be utilized when there are discrepancies or conflicts with the Friend of the Court’s findings. The evaluation includes meeting with all members of the immediate family separately to gather all family history, family dynamics and psycho-social history of the family. The report will include this history, summary and recommendations, Best Interest Factors, and confidential children’s report
Parenting Coordination Evaluation
Parenting Coordination Evaluation: A comprehensive evaluation of the co-parents is provided in an effort to determine the effectiveness and ability to co-parent in the post-divorce environment. The parties are seen individually. The evaluation also includes the utilization of standardized testing. The findings, summary and recommendation is presented to the Court, Friend of the Court and the parties/designated attorneys.
Parenting Coordination
For Mild Parental Conflict: Co-parenting counseling is a confidential therapeutic service that addresses the co-parenting relationship and children's issues associated with divorce and family separation. Clients in session together, will receive information about how children experience family separation as well as communication and negotiation skills to improve your effectiveness as co-parents. This service is not intended for those parents experiencing serious conflict, involved in post-divorce litigation or facing serious allegations.
Moderate-to-Severe Conflict: Parenting Coordination is a form of dispute resolution for high conflict families. It is a service designed to assist parents in high-conflict situations establish and maintain a healthy relationship by reducing parental conflict and the risk factors that influence a child's post-divorce adjustment. It is a non-confidential service intended for use in collaboration with the courts. Through education, assessment, mediation and case management, the family's progress is monitored to ensure that parents are fulfilling their obligations to their child while complying with the recommendations of the court. Reports outlining progress are routinely sent to the Court, Friend of the Court and the Parties and/or their representatives.
8-Week Co-Parenting Classes - Group
Over the 16 hour program co-parents learn how to shield their child/ren from conflict.
Diminish their child's sense of loyalty binds. Topics include:
Parent & Child Reunification Therapy
In a safe and therapeutic setting, a child may be gradually introduced or reintroduced to their biological parent. Child and parent explore and develop a healthy relationship, improve attachment, gain an understanding of and resolve issues of concern for both parents and children, and enhance overall family functioning. In cases of alienation, reunification therapy may be required. This is a therapeutic service and a report may be sent to the Court, Friend of the Court, parents and/or their representatives upon request and with the written consent of both parents.
Therapeutic Visitation
As a result of family separation some parents may be unable to effectively parent due to addictions or other emotional struggles. There may also be a history of domestic violence that the child has been a victim to or witnessed creating resistance to visitation. As a result, parents may lack the skills necessary to create a healthy parent-child relationship. In cases in which a parent has been ordered to have supervised visitation they may be required to utilize the services of a family therapist rather than a supervising agency. Therapeutic visitation offers parents the opportunity to practice new strategies in responding to their children. Sessions may focus on effective parent-child communication, healing past trauma, improving the parent's response to the needs of their children, learning appropriate discipline techniques, while decreasing inappropriate interactions between parent and child.
Custody Evaluations
Parenting Time Evaluations: A custody evaluation would be utilized when there are discrepancies or conflicts with the Friend of the Court’s findings. The evaluation includes meeting with all members of the immediate family separately to gather all family history, family dynamics and psycho-social history of the family. The report will include this history, summary and recommendations, Best Interest Factors, and confidential children’s report
Parenting Coordination Evaluation
Parenting Coordination Evaluation: A comprehensive evaluation of the co-parents is provided in an effort to determine the effectiveness and ability to co-parent in the post-divorce environment. The parties are seen individually. The evaluation also includes the utilization of standardized testing. The findings, summary and recommendation is presented to the Court, Friend of the Court and the parties/designated attorneys.
Parenting Coordination
For Mild Parental Conflict: Co-parenting counseling is a confidential therapeutic service that addresses the co-parenting relationship and children's issues associated with divorce and family separation. Clients in session together, will receive information about how children experience family separation as well as communication and negotiation skills to improve your effectiveness as co-parents. This service is not intended for those parents experiencing serious conflict, involved in post-divorce litigation or facing serious allegations.
Moderate-to-Severe Conflict: Parenting Coordination is a form of dispute resolution for high conflict families. It is a service designed to assist parents in high-conflict situations establish and maintain a healthy relationship by reducing parental conflict and the risk factors that influence a child's post-divorce adjustment. It is a non-confidential service intended for use in collaboration with the courts. Through education, assessment, mediation and case management, the family's progress is monitored to ensure that parents are fulfilling their obligations to their child while complying with the recommendations of the court. Reports outlining progress are routinely sent to the Court, Friend of the Court and the Parties and/or their representatives.
8-Week Co-Parenting Classes - Group
Over the 16 hour program co-parents learn how to shield their child/ren from conflict.
Diminish their child's sense of loyalty binds. Topics include:
- How to value each other.
- How to stay child-focused.
- How to shift their role from former spouse to co-parent.
- Learn business skills.
- How to use effective communication and negotiation skills.
- How to manage their anger.
- How to plan for their future as co-parents.
- How to understand the impact of parental conflict on their child's development.
Parent & Child Reunification Therapy
In a safe and therapeutic setting, a child may be gradually introduced or reintroduced to their biological parent. Child and parent explore and develop a healthy relationship, improve attachment, gain an understanding of and resolve issues of concern for both parents and children, and enhance overall family functioning. In cases of alienation, reunification therapy may be required. This is a therapeutic service and a report may be sent to the Court, Friend of the Court, parents and/or their representatives upon request and with the written consent of both parents.
Therapeutic Visitation
As a result of family separation some parents may be unable to effectively parent due to addictions or other emotional struggles. There may also be a history of domestic violence that the child has been a victim to or witnessed creating resistance to visitation. As a result, parents may lack the skills necessary to create a healthy parent-child relationship. In cases in which a parent has been ordered to have supervised visitation they may be required to utilize the services of a family therapist rather than a supervising agency. Therapeutic visitation offers parents the opportunity to practice new strategies in responding to their children. Sessions may focus on effective parent-child communication, healing past trauma, improving the parent's response to the needs of their children, learning appropriate discipline techniques, while decreasing inappropriate interactions between parent and child.