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Parenting After Separation (PAS) course

How the separation and divorce processes affect your child.

Overview

This course is for parents or guardians who are separating or getting a divorce. Sometimes the course is required, or you can voluntarily take the course.
The course is required:

  • before you file a divorce application or a Family Law Act application in the Court of King’s Bench
  • if a judge directs you to take it

Course topics include:

  • building relationships
  • how separation affects parents
  • how separation affects children
  • communication skills
  • legal issues
  • alternative dispute resolution
  • parenting plans

Download the Parenting After Separation (PAS) parent’s guide.

For more information, read the PAS and PASHC factsheet.

Parenting After Separation for Families in High Conflict (PASHC)

This course will teach you how to emotionally disengage from the other parent or guardian in the divorce and separation processes.

If you are experiencing domestic violence or abuse, see the abuse and bullying page for immediate help and resources.

This course is for parents or guardians who have completed the Parenting After Separation (PAS) course.

It is required if a judge directs you to take it. Otherwise, you can voluntarily take it.

You and the other party take this course separately.

Course topics include:

  • parental involvement and disengagement techniques
  • parenting plans for high conflict families
  • anger, abuse, power and control issues
  • child development and the needs of children
  • renegotiating boundaries

Download the Parenting After Separation for Families in High Conflict (PASHC) parent’s guide.

For more information, read the PAS and PASHC factsheet.

Course registration

To access the PAS and PASHC eCourses, register online at Resolution Services Learning Centre.