Specialised Co-parenting Support Centres - support services for divorced / separated families

Introduction

To provide one-stop co-parenting support services for separated/divorcing/divorced parents (the parents) and/or their children; to assist the parents in carrying out parental responsibilities based on a child-focused principle, strengthen parent-child connection and provide support to children affected by parental separation/divorce and family change to promote their healthy growth and development.

Service Target

• Separated/divorcing/divorced parents having conflicts and disputes without agreement in matters relating to child care and contact arrangements and/or their children; irrespective of their ethnicities, cultures, religions and languages.
• General public with interest in understanding parental responsibility.

Service Content

• Co-parenting counselling and parenting coordination service (formulate and implement child care and contact plans), parenting groups, programmes and workshops for parents;
• Child contact service for children and their non-residing parents or significant others, including supervised contact/supervised exchange;
• Child-focused counselling, groups and programmes for children;
• Education/publicity programmes to promote parental responsibility.

Opening Hours

12 sessions per week, including 1 Friday night and 4 sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Closed on public holidays.
# Please refer to the opening hours of respective SCSCs

Fees and Charges

Free of charge.

Application

• Direct application to service operators;
• Referrals from professionals including social workers, staff of relevant government departments or non-government organisations, school personnel or professionals providing services to separated/divorcing/divorced parents and their children, such as mediators or lawyers.

Information of Service Unit

For more relevant service information, you may visit the thematic webpage "Parenthood goes on".