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Putting children first
Putting Children First is a programme designed to help adults build cooperative parenting relationships after divorce or family separation in order to bring about better outcomes for children.
It was developed by practitioners working at the Centre for Separated Families and has been designed as a flexible tool that may be adapted to augment existing services within a range of disciplines and settings.
The programme is delivered as a course that helps parents to understand and deal with their, often painful, experiences and learn new ways of managing the
difficult transitions that accompany divorce or separation.
Parents who undertake the Putting Children First programme are helped to reorientate their focus from the ending of their adult, intimate
relationship towards building a new business like parenting relationship that is flexible and respectful. Where parents have become entrenched in conflict, it can offer solid foundations and
strategies to ensure that their children’s needs are met.
Putting Children First has been designed to work in a number of different settings and to be delivered by people with a range of professional backgrounds and skills.
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