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Apart Not Broken

Committed to Happy & Healthy Families, Regardless of Family Structure

Learn, Connect, & Create!

A FREE, online, multi-media program designed to help dads adjust and parent after divorce or separation

This Program Has… Videos – Hear Dads’ Real Life Experiences

Information: Access Accurate & Concise

Information

Discussion Forum – Connect and Share

Online Tools – Use Creative Strategies to

Communicate & Stay Connected

Activities - Engage in Activities

Independently or with Your Child

Resources – Build Your Own Parenting

Tool Box!

This Program Is… FREE – No Cost

Confidential – Online & Private

Efficient – 12 self-paced sessions of about 30

minutes each

Flexible – Choose when, where and how long you

spend on each session

Convenient – Available 24-7 anywhere with an

Internet Connection

Ongoing – Starts when you register!

Organization of the Program

What You Can Expect: On Your Mark!

This section will address how things are different after separation or divorce.

What It Means: Get Set!

This section will highlight the implications of those changes.

What You Can Do About It: Go!

This section will help you take action. This will include a new parenting tool, activity, option for using technology, and some additional considerations and suggestions.

Each session is broken into three sections:

Table of Contents1 – Getting Started: Introduction and Opening Activity:

2 – Adjusting to Separation/Divorce: Parting

3 – The Crux of the Separation/Divorce

4 – Reinventing Yourself

5 – Active Parenting: Providing, Disciplining, & Teaching

6 – Expressive Parenting: Supporting, Caretaking, & Protecting

7 – Co-Parenting

8 – The YOU in Communication

9 – Foundations of Relatedness

10 – Listening

11 – Owning Up & Cleaning Up When Things Don’t Go As Planned

12 – Creating the Relationship You Want with Your Child Over Time

Welcome!

Current & Concise Info

Videos

Parenting Tools & Activities

Program Objectives

Increase Parental Involvement

Build Effective Parenting Skills

Strengthen Communication

Build Confidence

Strengthen Parental Satisfaction

Enhance Emotional Closeness

Evaluation

This Program will be evaluated through the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Pre-post surveys

5-Question Feedback Form at the end of each session

Web Analytics

For More InformationApart Not Broken: Learn Connect, & Create!www.divorceddadinstitute.com

www.divorceddadinstitute.com/newsletter

Contact Information:Shelly D. Mahon

mdmahon@wisc.edu 608-770-1342

Personal Website/Blog http://shellydmahon.wordpress.com

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A father is the best father he knows how to be….