Afcc-ca Mentorship Project

• Jurisdiction: California,United States
• Citation: Vol. 41 No. 1
• Publication year: 2019

AFCC-CA Mentorship Project

For a number of years, our Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC) chapter has attempted to address the continuing issue of a decrease in mental health professionals qualified to serve in Family Law forensic roles. These roles include custody evaluations¹, Family Code section 3111 evaluators, Private CCRCs (Child Custody Recommending Counselors), reunification therapists, children's therapists (where the parents are in conflict/involved in custody/parenting litigation), special masters/parenting coordinators and even supervisors for parent-child contact.

The problem is that the generation of professionals trained and qualified in these areas 15-30 years ago are now retiring, limiting their practices in preparation for retirement, or unfortunately, have passed away.

This has led to a huge decrease in every county in our state (and many others as well) of qualified family law forensic professionals. This means those out there are over-whelmed with cases generally, creating time constraints/delays in being able to...