The Family Assistance and Parent Support Program

Goals

The Family Assistance and Parent Support Program has been designed to embody the following primary goals, which support and encourage the achievement of its mandate.

1)      To improve the quality of life for the family during and after the separation/divorce transition period.

2)      To have children and families experience a healthy, safe environment during and after the process of separation or divorce.

3)      To shift the process, for as many Canadian families as possible experiencing separation and divorce, from the current adversarial family court system, into this or a comparable program, that strongly involves both family and community.

4)      To improve the delivery of community-support services and participation with the family, thereby reducing the direct involvement of the family court system.

5)      To substantially reduce the loss of family resources, thereby enabling the family to have the means to care for itself, without having to depend on social services & other tax supported services.

6)      To give parents the skills needed to effectively parent their children in a separated or divorced environment.

7)      To significantly reduce or eliminate a family’s conflict, frequently due to an imbalance of power experienced among the parents, while undergoing the transition of separation and divorce.

8)      To reduce the parents need to access the court system for resolution of their differences.

9)      To extend the resources of current taxpayer-funded agencies such as police, welfare and other social services agencies by reducing the need for intervention in family conflict related matters.

Sept 13, 2000

This page is reprinted from "The Family Assistance and Parent Support Program" manual published by Family Conflict Resolution Services. For the latest version of the program manual contact the authors