This document discusses the importance of prioritizing children's needs during the divorce process. It introduces Kids First Parents Second, which aims to address children's needs while educating parents about divorce. Their approach provides a platform for children to express themselves, takes a team-based collaborative approach between parents, and addresses problems in a supportive family-like atmosphere focused on the children's needs rather than the parents'.

1. When Kids Talk, we listen….

2. Welcome to Kids First Parents Second

3. Foundations

4. • Address needs of
children WHILE helping
educate and counsel
parents about the
divorce process.
• Provide platform that
allows children to express
thought and feeling
•Provide team based
approach where parents
collaborate and work
through issues together.
•Problems are addressed
in a “family like”
atmosphere. Parents are
taught to focus on kids
needs, not their needs.

5. Basic message to parents

6. Welcome to Kids First….
Yikes!

7. Start Listening to Kids! They have something
to say.

8. Easy to see why they are
affected

9. They are not so resilient…..

10. Conflict hurts kids, who’s
listening?

11. So what do we do?

12. DAY ONE OF THE DIVORCE PROCESS
MAYBE THE MOST
IMPORTANT

14. This isn’t the time for thinkin!

17. Divorcing Parents not informed
of options!

18. BASIC FLAWS

19. BASIC FLAWS

20. Parents take less time to think about how
they are going to get divorce than….

21. BASIC FLAWS

22. BASIC FLAWS

23. OUR FAULT

24. OUR FAULT

25. Changing the system:

26. So I knew a few things……

27. And I had a few friends…..

28. Transitions Magazine

29. Providing Resources in the U.S. and U.K.

30. Our Challenge to the San Antonio
Collaborative Group