How can Putting Children First help me?

What is Putting Children First?
Putting Children First is a programme designed to help you build a cooperative parenting relationship with your child's other parent after divorce or family separation in order to bring about better outcomes for your children.

How does it work?
It works by offering you parents a safe and boundaried environment in which to develop understanding and deal with your experiences. From this, you are offered new ways of managing the difficult transitions that accompany divorce or separation.

What does it cover?
The programme looks at the impact of separation on parents and children, why conflict occurs and how it can be prevented, the emotional and psychological transitions that arise through separation, building new cooperative parenting relationships and taking positive steps to make the right choices for children.

What underpins it?

Putting Children First is based on the principles of family focus, gender awareness, flexibility, respect and a commitment to work towards a cooperative parenting relationship that puts the needs of children first.

What does it deliver?
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

How is it delivered?
Putting Children First is delivered in a range of different settings. It is currently offered in two formats:

The Putting Children First Course

This is a five module programme that is delivered over a number of days or weeks. Find out more here

Putting Children First Workshops

This is a one day event that covers all the basic principles of the programme. Find out more here

To find out more about how Putting Children First can help you, please call 0845 478 6360 or contact us using the online form here