Parenting Coordination
Parenting coordination provides parents with an option to clarify their parenting plans, enhance their co-parenting process, and regain focus on the children rather than on their frustration with each other. Parents can spend more time and money on their children rather than attorneys and legal proceedings. Parents should feel confident in their roles as the primary decision-makers for their children, rather than rely on lawyers and judges to enforce it.
Children should be given the opportunity to:
- Have both parents in their lives safely
- Go back and forth between parents easily and safely
- Have their parents make decisions that are in their best interests and not be caught in the middle of parental and legal battles
Goals & Objectives
The objectives of the parenting coordination process are to help parents implement their parenting plan by:
- Facilitating negotiations between the parents concerning child-related disputes
- Providing education about children’s needs and development, communication and conflict management skills
- Raising parental skill levels in collaborative or parallel planning and decision-making for their children
- Assisting parents to co-parent in a way that promotes the well-being of the children
