Get Your Program Certified

We provide curriculum review and certification services. With this, members of the Divorce Education Assessment Collaborative team will provide an external review of your curriculum. Upon completion, we will provide you with a certificate (displayed on our website and for you to display/share as you desire) that the program covers content in specific core competencies or specializations. If you are interested in learning more about our curriculum review and certification services, please complete this interest form.

Core Constructs

Knowledge of the Process of Divorce or Separation

Navigating Common Post-Divorce Issues

The course addresses common post-divorce family experiences and potential areas of disagreement, such as those around new romantic relationships/partners, health care, religious upbringing, education/school activities, drop offs and pickups, and maintaining boundaries and rules across households.

Programs certified in this construct:

Parenting Plans

Co-Parenting

The course addresses the benefits of working together (as coparents) to develop a functional and ideally cooperative relationship to facilitate raising children as a team. The course provides insights or suggestions into how to coparent cooperatively.

Programs certified in this construct:

General Parenting Practices & Child Development

The course addresses practical aspects of parenting and how children’s needs vary at different developmental ages and stages (e.g., infancy, childhood, adolescence). Topics may include promotion of parent-child relationships, ensuring children have developmentally appropriate roles and responsibilities in their families, helping children adjust to parental separation, handling discipline, or supporting children in schoolwork and social challenges.

Programs certified in this construct:

Communication

The course addresses how to facilitate healthy and effective communication. Topics may include active listening, I-statements (or other ways to structure complaints/concerns), keeping children out of the middle, reducing oversharing, and the use of communication technologies (e.g., texting, social media, phone, email). The subdomains for certification include communication with children and communication with coparent.

Programs certified in this construct:

Children’s Coping & Adjustment Post-Divorce

The course addresses how children frequently cope and adjust to the divorce process, and how to ensure children do so in a healthy way (even in difficult circumstances). Topics might include helping children develop support systems, and warning signs that children might be struggling (e.g., drug misuse, anger, sadness, fear).

Programs certified in this construct:

Conflict Management

The course addresses the consequences (psychological, health-wise) of exposure to conflict, and strategies to assist parents in managing conflict with co-parents (or other adults/children) post-divorce in a healthy and effective manner. Specific guidance may be provided on avoiding putting down or talking badly about a former spouse or partner, and how to address tense or uncomfortable conversations.

Programs certified in this construct:

Managing Adult Well-Being

The course addresses strategies and resources that adults can use to maintain their health and well-being through the divorce process, as well as how to recognize, anticipate, or prevent common emotional, mental, or behavioral health challenges that can arise during the process of or following divorce.

Programs certified in this construct:

Bridging Parental Conflict (synchronous)
Successful Co-Parenting after Divorce

External Support Networks

Programs certified in this construct:

Co-parenting After Romance Ends 4 and 6 hour programs
Successful Co-Parenting after Divorce

Special Cases

The course addresses special issues such as trauma, mental health and substance abuse, safety and domestic violence, accessing general community supports, military families, long-distance or interstate issues, children with special needs.

Programs certified in this construct:

Bridging Parental Conflict (synchronous):
- Trauma
- High Conflict
Co-parenting After Romance Ends 4 and 6 hour programs:
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Safety and Domestic Violence
- Children with Special Needs
Successful Co-Parenting after Divorce:
- Trauma
- Safety and Domestic Violence
- LGBTQ+
- Issues Facing Children
- Accessing General Community Supports

*Note: The conceptual definitions provided herein utilize phrasing and terminology related explicitly to the process of divorce and separation. We use common terminology here (such as divorce, post-divorce, separation), but acknowledge that these definitions are not precise enough to fully represent the range of potential family structures and situations to which the content is applicable.