Child-Parent Coalition

A network of professionals committed to children's' welfare and helping build healthy relationships between children and their caregivers/immediate relatives.

We are a network of individual agencies working together to focus on, and deal more effectively with, issues related to separation, divorce, parental high conflict, or violence that impacts children.

Our separate agencies can provide the following services:
(not all agencies provide all services)

Group Supervised Parenting Time
Supervised Parenting/Visitation
Therapeutic Parenting
Separate Co-Parenting Training & Facilitation
Interactional Evaluations
Individual and Family Therapy

A wide range of services is sometimes needed when parents separate, there is a Restraining Order, children are taken out of the home by Social Services, a child is scared of a parent, there has been conflict between caregivers, or a parent has been missing from a child's life for a while.

Children often suffer greatly during their parents' separation or divorce, when parents are in high conflict, or when taken from the home. Unfortunately, this is usually when the adult caregivers are also in great emotional turmoil, which makes it very difficult for them to fully appreciate the needs of their children.

The lowest level of professional services usually used is Monitored Exchange. This usually entails one parent taking a child to a neutral spot or professional office where the other parent picks the child up after the first parent has left the area.

The most common second level is Monitored Visitation/Parenting Time. Usually, this entails a professional being in the area of a visit most of the time. The professional may be in the next room, behind a glass, enter the area of the visitation from time to time, or view the visit with help of a video camera.

A third level sometimes used is Group Supervised Parenting Time A professional (or neutral party everyone agrees on) is usually in the room, or close by, and may listen and make suggestions during, or after the visit. There may be more than one family having Parenting Time in the same room or immediate area. This may not be sufficient for some families.

A common fourth level is Supervised Parenting Time. A professional (or neutral party everyone agrees on) is usually in the room, or close by, and may listen and make suggestions during, or after, the visit.

A common fifth level is Therapeutic Parenting (sometimes a type of Relationship Coaching). This is usually a form of family therapy. However, it is not true family therapy because traditional family therapy is for uniting a family or helping the family function better as a single unit. In Therapeutic Parenting (at TJ Price's facility), a trained therapist is involved in the session/time together. The therapist usually does not leave the room and is continually assessing for strengths and weaknesses, and ways to build a better, healthy relationship between the child(ren) and the parent (sometimes grandparent). The therapist makes therapeutic interventions as needed and schedules individual sessions when appropriate to strive to meet a therapeutic goal.

Separate Co-Parenting Training and Facilitation is sometimes needed when parents (caregivers) can not seem to disengage from the strong emotions related to a break-up or trauma and are not able to negotiate or cooperate to raise children. With psychological work, there is usually a way to work out an arrangement (often like a business agreement) so that children can have good relationships with both parents and not be put in the middle of conflict.

Interactional Evaluations are also available from some professionals. These are often useful to evaluate such things as the bond between a parent and child, each person's emotional responses to the other, as well as an adult's ability to empathize, discipline, comfort and nurture a child.

To view guidelines regarding Monitored Exchanges, Supervised Parenting or Parenting Time, and Therapeutic Parenting, developed by the C.P.C., click here: Guidelines

Note: Any listing below that has **, offers psychological services beyond Supervised or Monitored Parenting/Visitation that can range from full Psychological Assessment to Individual Counseling. See separate agency web pages for details of services offered.

Central Visitation Program of Denver
1660 Sherman St.
Denver, CO 80203
303-839-8701
fax 303-831-4912

** Community Reach Parenting Center
8989 North Huron St.
Thornton, CO 80233
303-853-3812
fax 303-280-8685

Karlis Family Center
1777 Kipling St.
Lakewood, CO 80215
303-462-1060
fax 303-462-1315

To learn more about the Karlis Family Center, click here:

http://www.thefamilytree.org/about_us/programs/karlis.html

** Mary Anthony, LCSW
7651 West 41st Ave., # 200
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
303-421-3313
fax 303-432-2297

(Part of Access Counseling)
Mailing address: 1534 55th St.
Boulder, CO 80303
303-546-9100

We have organized three conferences in the Fall/Winter, specifically designed to assist Supervised Parenting Programs. To view information about past regional education and training about Supervised Parenting/Visitation, click here: www.Tjprice.com/CPCTraining.html

To go to Colorado State Inter-Disciplinary Committee's Web Site, click here: www.coidc.org