Coparenting Coordination/Coaching

More than one million children are affected by their parent’s divorce each year.  Half of these children will be raised in a family system where parents remain in conflict.   Children raised in an environment of ongoing conflict are four to five times more likely to grow-up with serious emotional and behavioral problems.  In order to minimize the adverse effects of divorce on children and families, many parents choose, or are ordered to work with a Co-Parenting Coordinator.

Co-Parenting Coordination is designed to assist divorced parents in implementing their parenting plan, monitor compliance with the details of the plan, resolve conflicts regarding their children and the parenting plan in a timely manner, and protect and sustain safe, healthy and meaningful parent-child relationships.  Co-Parenting Coordination is a quasi-legal, mental health, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process that combines assessment, education, case management, conflict management and sometimes decision-making functions. 

 Co-Parenting Coordination benefits divorcing or divorced parents by:

     ü      Assisting parents shift their roles from former spouses to co-parents.

ü      Educating parents about the impact of parental conflict on their child’s emotional wellbeing.

ü      Helping parents identify their individual contribution to conflict while increasing impulse control.

ü      Teaching parents anger management, communication and conflict resolution skills, and children’s issues in divorce.

ü      Ensuring execution of the possession schedules specified in the temporary orders or divorce decree.

ü      Monitoring parenting time and modifying time-sharing arrangements as a means of reducing parental conflict.

ü      Working with parents in developing a detailed cooperative parenting plan for issues such as living arrangements, discipline, holidays, communication, etc.

 Co-Parenting Coordination benefits children by:

   ü      Reducing the child’s symptoms of stress as parental conflict decreases.

ü      Diminishing the child’s sense of loyalty binds.

ü      Creating a more relaxed home atmosphere allowing the child to adjust more effectively.

ü      Teaching effective communication and conflict resolution skills as modeled by their parents.

ü      Increasing the likelihood of keeping two active parents in the child’s life.

ü      Ensuring the child’s safety through open parental communication.

ü      Enhancing the child’s confidence and self-esteem by creating an optimal environment for growth.

ü      Diminishing the likelihood of future relationship difficulties and divorce in the child’s future.

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