Parenting Coordination (PC)

Parenting Coordination is professionally designed to help parents establish and maintain a healthy relationship by reducing parental conflict and the risk involved in post-divorce adjustment. Through the process of parenting coordination, the family's progress is monitored to ensure that parents are fullfilling their obligations to their child and complying with the court. A trained professional such as a psychotherapist works in collaboration with the courts to be a child advocate for the best interest of the child.

How does a Parenting Coordinator help parents?

  • Parenting Coordinators aid high conflict parents in implementing their agreed upon and/or court ordered parenting plan. Parents with help of PC develop/implement a detailed plan for time sharing, holidays, discipline, decision-making, extracurricular activities and communication
  • Parenting Coordinators facilitate conflict reduction strategies between the parents through co-parenting.
  • Parents learn to shift their role from former spouses to co-parenting.
  • Parents learn how to reduce emotional attachment and anger from the marital relationship to being co-parents.
  • Parents learn to reduce the behavior of parent alienation.
  • Parents learn to recognize the emotional impact they have onto their child.
  • PC will make recommendations to the parents if needed concerning individual counseling, and/or family counseling.
  • PC often work closely with other professional(Guardian ad litem, psychologist, mediators, mental health professionals) and attorneys.

How do children benefit from Parenting Coordination?

  • PC is a child advocate
  • PC helps reduce a child's stress since parental conflict reduces
  • PC tries to get rid of child's loyalty binds
  • PC teaches parents effective communication of which child will learn from
  • PC brings about safety to a child by teaching parents better communication skills
  • PC help parents raise children with confidence and self-esteem

  Parenting Plan

A Parenting Coordinator can help create a parenting plan or can add, modify or make changes to an existing parenting plan already established.

Parenting plans are crucial in helping parents make important decisions such as:

  • creating a regular time sharing schedule
  • holiday schedule
  • responsibilities towards their childs education
  • discipline
  • recreational activities
  • medical and dental visits
  • daily supervision
  • on-going school activities
  • clothing
  • haircuts
  • contact with extended family
  • religion