For those readers who conduct parenting plan evaluations (in Florida - “social investigations”, in many other states “custody evaluations”) or whose role is challenging an evaluation the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) is hosting another educational webinar series The Fundamentals of Conducting Parenting Plan Evaluations.
I have found this program in past years to be invaluable in my professional work, and even (at times) entertaining, but certainly informative.
This year AFCC is offering an expanded 28-hour online training program for professionals interested in parenting plan evaluations on March 11-14 and March 18-20, 2024.
This will be a comprehensive parenting plan evaluation (PPE) training program conducted online by a team of leading practitioners and trainers.
The program will take place in two segments per day, two hours each. Recordings of all sessions will be available for registrants.
The program will incorporate a complete overview of the parenting plan evaluation process, including:
- Definition of the purpose and roles of the parenting plan evaluator
- Specifics of the evaluation process, including interviewing, recordkeeping, and use oftechnology
- Implications of intimate partner violence and resist-refuse dynamics
- Updates on current research
- Implications of relocations and consideration of children with special needs
- Implications of child maltreatment, including sexual, physical, and emotional abuse
- Development of parenting plans
- Review of cultural considerations, biases, and ethical issues
- Utilization of psychological testing
- Best practices for report writing and testifying
- Participants will learn the difference between a forensic role and a clinical role, how to review court orders and determine what information should be obtained,
- Strategies for
- interviewing adults and children,
- how to assess coparenting issues,
- how to develop and test multiple hypotheses, and
- how to craft recommendations.
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