PACIFICA CONGRESS ENDORSED
Parenting Coordination
Resources & Frameworks
Parenting Coordination – Guidelines and Standing Orders
Pacifica Congress is proud to acknowledge the significant work undertaken by the Parenting Coordination Focus Group in developing the Guidelines for Parenting Coordinators in Australia and proposed Standing Orders for Parenting Coordination appointments.
Since its inaugural meeting in May 2023, the Focus Group brought together a committed and interdisciplinary group of practitioners and stakeholders. Through ongoing collaboration, consultation, and careful consideration of practice across jurisdictions, the group shaped a consistent and thoughtful framework for Parenting Coordination in Australia.
This work has included engagement with the Courts and the Attorney-General’s Department, as well as broader consultation with the family law community. The resulting Guidelines and draft Orders reflect both clinical and legal expertise, and are intended to support clarity, consistency, and best practice in Parenting Coordination.
Sector contribution
Pacifica Congress also acknowledges the important role played by The Honourable Steven Strickland KC in supporting the dissemination of these materials to professional groups and agencies across Australia, contributing to awareness and sector engagement.
As Parenting Coordination continues to develop as an interdisciplinary practice, further work is anticipated in relation to regulation, accreditation, and professional standards.
Parenting Coordination
Guidelines and Standing Orders
Access the proposed Standing Orders for Parenting Coordination Appointments and the Guidelines for Parenting Coordination in a clean single-column display.
Proposed Standing Orders for Parenting Coordination Appointments
Draft resource
Review the proposed standing orders prepared to support greater consistency and clarity in Parenting Coordination appointments.
Proposed Standing Orders for Parenting Coordination Appointments
Guidelines for Parenting Coordination
Published guidelines
View the Parenting Coordination guidelines developed to support best practice, professional consistency, and interdisciplinary application.
Guidelines for Parenting Coordination
Parent Coordination training is designed to equip eligible mental health, family law and FDR practitioners with the skills to practise as parenting coordinators.
Endorsed Training
What is Parenting Coordination?
Parenting Coordination is a child focussed management and dispute resolution process in which a mental health or legal practitioner with Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) or mediation training and experience assists compromised and high conflict parents to create and maintain healthy relationships with their children if reasonably possible by:
• implementing parenting plans; monitoring compliance with court orders.
• assisting to settle ongoing disputes regarding their children.
• reducing conflict through education on communication and effective decision making to support families to be child centred and to support appropriate family relationships.
The purpose the training is to offer knowledge and or skills in the process for professionals who may work with separated families, especially those in high conflict, who can assist then in the ongoing management of their interactions and to support better management of conflict and enable better outcomes for the children in these families.
The course will include academic research and recent articles, honing drafting skills specific to parenting coordination, upgrading mediation skills appropriate for parenting coordination, role-plays, practical advice, supervision, a training manual, and personal assessments with a view to train the delegates to become suitably qualified and ready to practice as Parenting Coordinators.
PACIFICA CONGRESS ENDORSED Parenting Coordination TRAINING
Please note:
• Trainers will include current professionals from the Parenting Coordinators field both Australian and international spheres.
• This training is suitable If you would like to enhance your knowledge of this process.
• This training will also offer endorsement to be on the
Pacifica Congress register of parenting Coordinators, subject to eligibility.
The course will be both informative and practical and delegates are to be prepared for interaction and participation, including the writing of any non-binding recommendations.
Pacifica Congress proposes to endorse Parenting Coordinators who have met the criteria below and successfully completed this training course.
Course registration criteria
To register for this course, you must be a mental health or family law professional or certified and qualified family dispute resolution practitioner in accordance with the Family Law Act 1975.
You must also have had training and experience in family dispute resolution and/or mediation, and extensive practical professional experience with family cases involving high conflict coparenting dynamics.
Why choose this course?
• Comprehensive training provided by highly experienced Australian and international presenters.
• A dynamic and intensive program developed specifically for mental health, legal and family dispute resolution practitioners.
• Interactive and experiential teaching methods including role plays, supervision and assessment.
• Inclusion of your professional details on the Pacifica Parenting Coordinators public database after successful course completion and endorsement.
The course will include academic research and recent articles, honing drafting skills specific to parenting coordination.
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Endorsed Training
Parent Coordination
Parenting Coordinators Assist Families
With the known detrimental effects of high conflict parenting on children, Parenting Coordinators can assist in many ways
About Parent Coordination
This course will include academic research and recent articles, honing drafting skills specific to parenting coordination, upgrading mediation skills appropriate for parenting coordination, role-plays, practical advice, supervision, a training manual and personal assessments
Outcomes of Course
This course will train the delegates to become suitably qualified and ready to practice as Parenting Coordinators.