The Mentorship Outreach Committee of AFCC California (MOC) is a committee of AFCC-CA Board members from varying geographic areas of California working to develop outreach methods for the recruitment of a new generation of well-trained mental health professionals (MHPs) to work in the various family law communities, and with the Courts, in every county in California eventually. The Committee is doing this by setting up new local MOCs in the geographic areas, sponsoring trainings and […]
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Aren’t We All in This Together? The Little Conference That Could
The title of the conference was “Aren’t we all in this together?” to acknowledge the feeling that community and cooperation seem to be at a low ebb today and to trumpet a call to arms to do something about it, to broaden what community means, to act! Even virtually, we can come together. And we did! The 2022 AFCC California Conference was slated to be in person until it became clear that COVID was not […]
Read MoreStudy Group Made Up of AFCC-CA Members Addresses Short-Term and Long-Range Impact of the Zoom Era
On May 8, 2020, almost two months to the day since the beginning of quarantine, a study group made up of AFCC-CA members, a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary consortium of professionals who are dedicated to helping parents and children experiencing separation or divorce, held its first virtual meeting. Fittingly, attorneys Fern Topas Salka, CFLS, and Jeffery Jacobson, CFLS, together with mental health professionals Nancy Satenberg, Ph.D., and Vi Ballard, MFT, examined “Major Changes to Family Law […]
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