Parenting Coordination is a child centered process for conflicted, separated and separating parents. It is a form of dispute resolution and child development education for parents, to help them implement their Parenting Orders or Parenting Plan.
We recognise the conflict doesn’t stop once a Parenting Order have been made or Agreement has been reached. Often that’s when the really hard work of day to day working together begins and the uncertainties about the orders can appear.
Through education, mediation and case management, the family’s progress, post separation, is monitored to assist the parents to ensure the best possible outcomes for their children.
How does Parenting Coordination Work?
- The parents and the Parenting Coordinator sign an Agreement noting the terms of the engagement, the process and the expectations of the engagement.
- The parents each have an individual session in the first instance. These are followed by joint sessions which include both of the parents and the Parenting Coordinator. If there are safety concerns the “joint sessions” will be done so that the parties don’t come into contact with each other.
- Parents continue to attend sessions, usually on a monthly basis, until the Parenting Coordinator advises that the matter can move to an ‘as needed’ basis.
- In addition to session attendance, either parent can contact the Parenting Coordinator with a concern or difficulty, and the Parenting Coordinator will communicate with the other parent about these issues in an attempt to reach a timely resolution.
- The Parenting Coordinator will educate the parents on how to begin to manage this process themselves so that eventually the parents can disengage the Parenting Coordinator and manage their co-parenting themselves.
- The parents will usually share equally in the cost of all communications with the Parenting Coordinator.
Parenting Coordinators benefits families by:
- Reducing the post orders conflict.
- Coaching parents to put the needs of their children first in a real and meaningful way.
- Providing prompt assistance in the resolution of the day-to-day issues that arise in putting parenting orders and agreements into place.
- Monitoring parental compliance with the parenting orders or parenting plans.
- Reducing the overall conflict that the entire family experiences when the parents cannot get along, cannot make decisions and cannot communicate. This benefits the most defenseless victims of high conflict parenting - the children.
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