YELLOW Cluster :  On-Record Processes

The Yellow Cluster training programs, have one element in common. The intervention is not protected by confidentiality or inadmissibility. These programs are for practitioners who work in the “On the Record” sector. This includes Parenting Coordinators, Judicial Officers, Family Report Writers, Voice of the Child Report Writers, Children’s Contact Centre Workers, and Child Protection Officers/Workers.

How can we provide a space for the child voice, while remaining clear with the child that what they share with us may be used in processes that they had not intended? How can we gather the breadth of the child voice and bring it to decision makers?

Meeting with Children™ for Judges

Duration

  • 8 hours total
  • 4 hours live tutorial, 4 hours in self-paced learning

Description

This program is specifically designed for judicial officers who are seeking to meet with children as a part of their judicial role. The program introduces the judicial officer to a protocolled activity that can be carried out with children/youth 5-18 yrs. The approach is non-evaluative and is not a forensic interview process, rather judicial officers learn how to invite a child to use the accompanying materials and the child takes the lead and shares what is important to them. The Meeting with Children™ for Judges Approach is child-led vs. adult-led. The MWC approach is manualized and comes with child-focussed materials that explores 5 areas of a child/youth’s life. Judicial officers learn about the character, interests and temperament of the child.

Training Approach

  • Two 2-hour live tutorials and 4 hours self-paced learning involved in each tutorial.

Entry Requirements

  • Judicial Officers, Registrars, and Arbitrators dealing with Family Law and Child Protection

As a part of this course participants will receive:

  • Meeting with Children for Judges Manual
  • 1 set of bear cards
  • 1 set of emoji cards
  • 1 large note taking pad
  • 1 jigsaw
  • 1 “Me in My World” Mat

Participants will retain access to the ICCFL Learning Portal for 6 months from the date of enrolment.

Parenting Coordination: A Child Centred Approach

Duration

  • 40 hours total
  • 15 hours in live tutorial 25 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

Parenting Coordination is a child-centred alternative dispute resolution process that is particularly appropriate for parents who are in high conflict post separation and divorce. Parenting Coordination is an on-record, “With-Prejudice” process. Parenting Coordinators are typically mental health or legal professionals with additional training in child development, family systems, domestic violence, mediation and arbitration.

Parenting Coordinators assist parents in high conflict to implement and, in some instances, create their parenting plans.

Parenting Coordination is a structured, mental health, ADR process that combines family systems interventions, psychoeducation, case management, conflict management, negotiation and, when necessary (if part of the process), decision-making functions (arbitration). Parenting Coordinators have extensive experience and qualifications for working with high conflict situations related to separation and divorce.

Parenting Coordination training learning objectives Participants will:

  1. Learn about the multifaceted role of the Parenting
  2. Identify how and when to include children and also how to make use of the Child and Youth Concerns Scale
  3. Create a structured approach to managing the PC role including strategies to assist parents in high
  4. Learn how and when to record session content and how to develop a contract that addresses the necessary components for the PC process
  5. Explore the role of Arbitrator as part of the PC role and compare and contrast PC with Arbitration and PC without Arbitration
  6. Review inclusion of children and identify developmental issues and special ways to include children in a safe an appropriate manner
  7. Learn about family systems in relation to high conflict
  8. Identify how and when to use the Parent Readiness Scale and how to work with dysregulated clients
  9. Learn about and identify alienation factors and management strategies
  10. Be exposed to domestic violence screening and assessment and how to work with power imbalances
  11. Identify ethics and ethical dilemmas through case examples and small group exercises
  12. Partake in role-plays and small group exercises in order to enhance practical skills needed by the Parenting Coordinator

Training Approach

  • Course is taught online over six weeks.
  • Five 3-hour live tutorials and 25 hours self-paced learning incorporated into each tutorial.

Entry Requirements

  • Family Mediators, FDRPs, Family Counsellors, Family Lawyers, Independent Children’sLawyers.
  • Must have mediation training.

Meeting with Children for Children’s Contact Workers

Duration

  • 22.5 hours total
  • 7.5 hours in live tutorial 15 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

This program is specifically designed for workers in Children’s Contact Centres or supervised Contact Centres. The Meeting with Children Approach has been adapted for a medium-term intervention with children in On Record interventions. The approach considers how the approach can be applied to the beginning, middle and end of the involvement of the child in a supervised contact environment.

Training Approach

  • Three 2.5-hour live tutorials and self-paced learning involved in each tutorial.

Entry Requirements

  • Children’s Contact Centre Workers. Supervised Contact Workers.

Meeting with Children for Child Protection Workers

Duration

  • 22.5 hours total
  • 7.5 hours in live tutorial 15 hours in self-paced learning.

Description

This program is specifically designed for workers in Child Protection Agencies. The Meeting with Children Approach has been adapted for the application to On Record interventions where children have a story to tell. The child voice has to be larger than the investigatory question. This course allows for the child voice to be brought forward.

Training Approach

  • Course is taught online over four weeks.
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    Three 2.5-hour live tutorials and self-paced learning involved in each tutorial.

Entry Requirements

  • Child Protection Workers and Supervised Contact Workers.