Parenting After Separation

Parenting After Separation is a free three-hour workshop that helps parents make informed decisions about their separation which consider their children’s best interests. The program is mandatory for separating parents in some BC communities.

Topics include:

  • The impact of separation on you and your children
  • How to help your family adjust to change
  • Strategies to help your family adjust to change
  • Effective ways you and your children’s other parent can communicate
  • How to keep your children out of the middle of conflict
  • Options for resolving family disputes, including mediation, counseling and the court process
  • How the child support guidelines are applied
  • Resources in the community for parents and children

Parent's Handbook

The program’s Parent’s Handbook provides information about how parents and children experience the process of separation, how parents can have a healthy relationship with their children and what to do when safety issues are involved. The Handbook is available in English, French, Punjabi and Chinese.

Facilitator’s Guide

The Parenting After Separation program’s Facilitator’s Guide includes preparation instructions, instructional techniques, detailed lesson plans, resources and references.

Purchase Parenting After Separation
Parent's Handbook (hard copy): $10 Order this publication
Parent's Handbook (electronic): Free - Available in English, French, Punjabi and Chinese.

For more information about the Parenting After Separation program, contact the Family Justice Centre in your area.

Parenting After Separation is well-complemented by our Finances After Separation program.

Click here for coures in September. Click here for courses in October, November and December.

To find out more about this program, or to register for a session in the Lower Mainland, please contact:

Justice Education Society
(604)775-0856
Toll Free: 1-800-775-0856
Email: info(at)JusticeEducation.ca

For the Nanaimo area, please contact:
Nanaimo Family Justice Services Centre
(250)741-5447
Toll free: 1-800-578-8511