Co-parenting may be the most challenging relationship in the world.
Dependency court exists to keep children safe, and when the stresses of life have become too much and things have gone too far, whenever possible, to help parents get back on track through Family Reunification (FR).
Without mediation, too often, co-parents exit the system without a detailed co-parenting plan or visitation schedule. With no agreement there's no plan, just chaos and renewed anxiety, which can lead to relapses.
Our co-mediators (two mediators) invest a full day helping co-parents, grandparents, or guardians end the war and begin the peace as they create their new road map to success.
When co-parents create their own agreements through a voluntary process, these families learn and benefit in ways that are otherwise unattainable.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure -
Let's stop generational recidivism from harming children, tearing families apart, and destroying communities from the inside. Let's stop that.
MISSION: Southern California Family Mediation keeps kids out of foster care and gets them home safer & sooner by delivering mediated co-parenting, visitation, and adoption plans for families at all Los Angeles County Children’s and Dependency Courts. Benefiting from 11 years’ experience and “1,000 Mediation Lessons Learned”, we deliver free and low-cost mediation and conflict communication education.
Children's Law Center of California - Los Angeles
"We are so grateful for our innovative partnership with Southern California Family Mediation, offering co-parents and guardians the opportunity to build communication and problem-solving skills they need to successfully navigate through conflict in a healthy way."
And it's working...
“When parents and children engage in successful mediation, those cases are more likely to result in dependent children returning to safe and healthy homes…and diminished recidivism”
- Presiding Judge Ret., Los Angeles County Juvenile Dependency Courts, V. Greenberg
Your investment in Peace helps us serve families to save children.
