SoCalFamily Mediation

SCFM helps kids return to safer homes, away from foster housing, by helping parents become heroes again.

• Disrupt paths of children going from Los Angeles County Children's Courts (dependency courts) to foster housing, when the Court determines it's safe for them to return home.
• Serve the most at-risk families, when they need us most, during pivotal times in highest conflict, at all Los Angeles County Dependency Courts .
• Provide co-parenting families with day-long "agreement-creation workshops" where 90% of co-parents create their own custom-detailed Mediated Parenting Plan Agreements (child welfare stability plans).
• We are a California Judicial Counsel-approved mediation education provider, sharing wisdom and lessons learned from the front lines of conflict communication.

Family: Parent + Child

Co-Parents (Co-Parenting Families): Share rights and responsibilities for their children, but do not live together.

2 Co-Parenting Families: Parent...Child...Parent

Children's Court (A.K.A. Dependency Court): Distinct from the Family Law Courts, in Los Angeles County, in that there was harm or credible risk of harm to a child.  Co-parents may complete a 2-year Family Reunification (FR) Plan, to earn back their parental rights and responsibilities.  Dependency courts are in the business of forgiveness, when safe for kids.