Community Resources

Education and Counseling

The Parenting Center, Parent Education, services for families raising children between two homes, and Therapy.
Texas Counseling, Social Studies, adoptions, parenting coordination, co-parenting case management, supervised visitation, and other professional services.
Institute for Families in Transition- Conflict Disengagement Education
Galaxy Counseling Center- Provides high quality, low cost counseling services for children, teens, adults, couples, and families. They also provide psychological evaluations/assessments ADHD, ADD assessments for children, testing and evaluation of children, adolescents and adults AND bilingual/bicultural services such as Counseling provided in Spanish and Vietnamese.
972-272-4429
Child Study Center, provides diagnosis and treatment services to children who have, or are at risk for, developmental disabilities and related behavioral and emotional and dental problems so that these children may achieve their full potential.
Family First, WFAA's frequent news reports, series, in-depth special assignments, and documentaries showing people and programs which are helping families grow stronger.
Divorce As Friends, as seen on Oprah! Stop the Conflict Course with Bill Ferguson. Learn how to end conflict, heal hurt, remove upsets, stop arguing, resolve issues, restore communication, and if necessary, part as friends.
Other Texas coparent education programs outside of the DFW area.

Mediation and Coparenting Support

Family Transitions of The Parenting Center. Mediation, Consultation, and other coparenting support.
Dispute Mediation Services of Dallas, Mediation, 214-754-0022
Denton County- Mediation
Dispute Resolution Services of Tarrant County, Mediation, 817-877-4554
Family Court Services - Tarrant County Domestic Relations Office- Access Facilitation, Mediation, and Social Studies, 817-887-1616
Family Court Services - Dallas County Mediation and Social Studies, 214-653-7674
Sharp Focus Centers - Providing mediation, collaborative law services, parenting coordination, and counseling for families in Denton County. They also offer the Co-parenting Partnerships Children in the Middle course.
Kay Elliott

Collaborative Law

What is collaborative law?
Support Professionals
Fort Worth Area Collaborative Professionals
North East Collaborative Professionals
Collaborative Lawyers of Tarrant County
Texas Collaborative Lawyers
Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers
Collaborative Law Dallas
Texas Resources
Information

Support Groups

Rainbows offers training and curricula for establishing peer support groups for children, adolescents, and adults who have experienced loss due to divorce or death.
Kids Metroplex provides a listing of area parenting support groups.

Legal Services

Dallas Bar Association, Attorney and Mediator Referrals, 214-220-7400,LEGALINE - Dallas Bar Association, 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of each month 5-9 p m, 214 969-7066
Legal Services of North Texas, Legal services for low-income families in Dallas county, 214 7481234
Tarrant Bar Association, Attorney and Mediator Referrals, 817-338-4092,
West Texas Legal Services, Legal services for low -income families in Tarrant county, 817-336-9343
Texas Father's for Equal Rights- Tarrant County assistance for members in resolution of their pre and post divorce problems.
Father's for Equal Rights- Dallas County assistance providing very specific hands-on services to fathers, grandparents, and others who have a current or future case in the Dallas or surrounding areas, or who have children in this geographic area.

Financial Services

ArrearsCalculator.com - accurately and easily calculate child support/alimony arrears online. Determine how much support is owed on any case without hiring an attorney.
Scott D Clarke, CFP - Certified Financial Planner and Certified Divorce Planner in the DFW area.

Domestic Violence, Victim's Assistance, and Child Abuse

Brighter Tomorrows- The mission of Brighter Tomorrows in Grand Prairie is to empower survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Dallas Domestic Violence Resources- resource for Dallas and surrounding areas for Domestic Violence information.
Child Protective Services, For reports of abuse or neglect.
Child Guidance Center, Services include Therapy Based Services, Collaborative Programs, Family and Community Education Program, Case management Services, Permanency Planning, Professional Training, Internship Opportunities, and a Volunteer Program
214-351-3490
The Family Place, The Family place hotline, 214.941.1991, offers 24-hour crisis counseling, information and referral for victims of family violence. The mission of The Family Place has been to eliminate family violence through intervention and proactive prevention, extensive community education, advocacy and assistance for victims and their families.
Excap- Child Abuse Prevention through Parent Aide Mentor Program, Families First, Shaken Baby Syndrome Education, Healthy Families.
The Women's Shelter- Services include case management, counseling, specialized children’s programs, transportation, clothing, housing assistance, legal advocacy and links to community resources.
Women's Haven- exists to eliminate domestic violence in Tarrant County by sheltering victims, by assisting victims to overcome and escape abusive relationships,
and by preventing abuse from occurring through intervention and education.
Genesis Women's Shelter- To provide quality safety and shelter to battered women and their children through crisis intervention and short-term crisis therapeutics and to reduce the occurrence of domestic violence in the Greater Dallas Area.
Texas Family Violence Shelters- A list.
Crossroads Family Services- Crossroads Family Services is dedicated to strengthening the Collin County Community by providing quality services for education, intervention, counseling and victim’s assistance.

Grief and Loss

The Warm Place-The WARM Place is a grief support center for children, ages three to eighteen, and their families, who have experienced the death of someone they love in Tarrant County.
Journey of Hope Grief Support Center- The mission of the Journey of Hope Grief Support Center is to provide support at no cost for children, teens and their families as they learn to mourn the death of their loved one in a safe, caring and nurturing
environment.
The Compassionate Friends- The Compassionate Friends is a national nonprofit, self-help support organization that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.

Supervised Visitation Centers

Hannah's House in Irving offers in-house supervised visitation for the DFW community.
FLP Faith and Liberty's Place facilitate visitation with the non-custodial parent.
Other Texas Supervision Centers

COURTS

Dallas County
Tarrant County
Denton County
Parker County
Wise County
Johnson County
Rockwall County
Ellis County

Internet Resources

Parenting Partnerships
Confident Coparenting is an interactive course that focuses on what happens to children when their parents divorce or have ongoing custody issues. If you need to fulfill a coparenting course, this program will do just that. Most important, though, this course will improve your coparenting skills and help you to be a better parent.

Parent Alienation Awareness
Our goal is to educate the general public, the schools, police, counselors, religious leaders, and more, about this growing problem. Our goal is education. We believe that with education comes understanding, and the will and power to stop the emotional and mental abuse of children.

Divorce Recovery Suite
Divorce chat room, state statutes, collaborative law center, virtual library, and other resources for divorcees.

Kids Metroplex
A list of parent resources for Dallas and Fort Worth.

Up to Parents
A very helpful websit supporting coparenting.

Coparent Pro
Software to assist coparenting.

Internet Visitation
Dedicated to those wanting to learn more about 'Virtual Visitation'. If you are a parent or family of divorce and want a better way to communicate with your children when they are not with you, then this site is for you.

Video on Virtual Visitation
Good Morning America: Robin Roberts Covering Virtual Visitation

Share Kids
ShareKids.com is a secure online service designed to assist in co-parenting management - providing tools to manage 'share / access schedules', communications and correspondence, medical information, shared expense and support accounting , personal records, activities and events, friends and contacts, school info and homework, diaries, photos albums and much more. A comprehensive 'privilege manager' allows guests and relatives to see only what you want them to see.

Comamas
Support for the mother and stepmother.

Divorce Net
The Net's Largest Divorce Resource since May 1995! Search for professional services and resources for each state. Visit their interactive bulletin boards on Custody & Visitation, Divorce Mediation, Parenting Issues, Stepfamily Issues.

Legal Help USA
Professional legal aid is now available from a nationwide team of expert lawyers that provide help and assistance with all legal related issues.

Millenium Divorce
Sign up for their free newsletter, read their articles, and review laws for your state.

Center for Divorce Education
Produces a different Children in the Middle program and other divorce materials for parents, and for agencies serving divorcing parents.

JointParents
Raising a child after a divorce or separation is challenging for parents. JointParents.com provides the tools to keep parents well organized and communicating effectively.

Our Family Wizard
Ourfamilywizard.com was specifically designed to help families with scheduling from separate households and with managing their important family information. The web site facilitates interactive family scheduling and information management.

Kids Watch
Allows you to specify the time your children can spend on the computer, access the Internet or play games. Time Control helps you block unwanted software from being downloaded, prevents overuse and helps you to balance your child's day.

Child Welfare League of America
CWLA is an association of almost 1,200 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services.

Special Needs Family
Offers family friendly fun and special needs resources to enhance the quality and fun of family life with special needs.

Babycenter
Your complete resource for pregnancy and baby. The site is dedicated to helping other expectant and new parents find the in-depth information, a supportive community, and thousands of baby and maternity products they need. This site is a great site for providing information related to behaviors of infants and toddlers, such as separation anxiety that can be expected from raising children in two homes.

BabyZone
The leading online provider of unique personalized content, tools and community features for new and expectant parents. With more than 10,000 pages of proprietary content and dozens of customized tools, the site seamlessly guides the journey from preconception through parenting, including providing local parenting information and resources in more than 70 U.S. markets.

Positive Parenting Online
Dedicated to providing resources and information to make parenting rewarding, effective, and fun.

Shared Parenting Information Group
Promoting responsible shared parenting after separation or divorce.

Families Through International Adoption
FTIA helps families learn about international adoption.

AFCC Texas
The Texas chapter of the Association of Family, Court and Community Professionals.

Grand Prairie Businesses

Good Articles

Newsweek Article
Written by a Child Who's Parent's Lived a Large Distance Apart

Your Social Worker
Helping folks resolve problems related to personal, marital, child, adolescent, family, parenting, separation, divorce, and child custody and access issues with services such as counselling, mediation, assessment and more.

Paternity Testing

www.betagenetics.com
www.homepaternity.com