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Introduction
Five Specialised Co-parenting Support Centres (SCSCs) are set up across the territories to provide one-stop child-focused co-parenting support services for separated/divorcing/divorced parents (the parents) and/or their children. The SCSCs assist the parents to carry out parental responsibilities under the child-focused principles, strengthen parent-child connection and provide support to children affected by parental separation/divorce and family change to promote their healthy growth and development.
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Service Scope
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Provide co-parenting counselling and parenting coordination service (formulate and implement the child(ren) care and contact arrangement), structured parenting groups/programmes/workshops to parents;
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Provide children contact service including supervised contact/supervised exchange between the children and their non-residing parents and/or significant others;
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Provide children with child-focused intensive counselling/groups/programmes; and
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Promote parental responsibility through education/publicity activities.
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Targets Service Users
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Separated/divorcing/divorced parents and/or their children where the parents have difficulty in cooperating with each other and/or reaching agreement relating to the children's living, care and contact arrangements including different ethnicities, cultures, religions and language; and
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General public with interest to know the parental responsibility.
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Service Distribution
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Opening Hours
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12 sessions per week, including 1 Friday night and 4 sessions on Saturday and Sunday
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Closed at public holidays
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Please refer to the opening hours of respective SCSCs
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Fee Charging
Free of charge
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Application
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Direct application;
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Referrals from professionals including social workers, staff of relevant government departments or non-government organisations, school personnel, or professionals providing services to separated/divorcing/divorced parents and their children, such as mediators or lawyers.
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Service Pamphlet
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