Parents are worried about their children
As a solicitors, mediators or experts involved in arrangements for children you are in a strong position to help separating parents make sure their children are well supported.
Use our free resources and signpost parents to Your Direction. Using these resources will help parents engage more effectively with the legal aspects of their separation and divorce. They will have greater peace of mind knowing their children are being well supported.
You’ll be making a life changing difference to young people during one of the biggest crisis they may experience, reducing the negative impact on their future.
Give Parents Peace Of Mind
Recommend Your Direction – a FREE online workshop for 12-17 year olds and 18-30 year olds, whose parents are separating.
Share this brochure with parents who are separating and help young people get the support they need.
Family breakdown is the biggest single factor affecting teenage mental health
Share this video with parents who are separating
This 2 minute video gives an overview of the workshop. Show it to Parents you are meeting to let them know that this vital support is available.
More Resources
This useful handout provides parents with practical tips for supporting their children through a separation or divorce.
Handout for ParentsParents can use this letter template to agree the basis of a their parenting relationship after a separation.
Parenting Letter TemplateThis helpful handout provides practical advice for Teachers and Youth workers who are supporting young people whose parents have separated
Handout for Teachers & Youth WorkersWatch this excerpt from an Instagram Live we created with Family Knowledge Lawyer and Mediator, Natalie O’Shea. Natalie is a volunteer helping to run Your Direction.
Watch Volunteer PerspectiveWe’ve created a customisable email template you can use to send all the most useful resources to parents.
Email Template To Send to ParentsThese top tips for parents who are separated was created by the Family Justice Young People’s Board. All the members of FJYPB are children and young people with experience of family law proceedings.
FJYPB Top Tips HandoutEncourage parents to book their children onto a Your Direction workshop.
Next Workshops Starts 6 November
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Train Your Team
We can provide training for your team so they feel confident in supporting parents and young people whose parents separate.
Contact us to discuss requirements. We can arrange training for your team so they feel better equipped to support parents who are separating.
For more information or to join our mailing list please email [email protected]
Your Direction has been developed by Restored Lives in partnership with the children’s charity Spurgeons. It is delivered by trained volunteers who have experienced the issues surrounding parental separation personally. All the necessary safeguarding processes are in place.