Hannah's House

The break-up of a #family affects adults and children in vastly different ways. While tensions run high for both parties, adults generally have more capability of handling the stress than their children do. How can you better serve the well-being of the child involved? Learn more about making smooth #transitions between homes with Supervised Exchanges (SE): http://bit.ly/supervisedexchange

From the Hannah's House staff and families: Thank you to all our generous supporters who gave during our annual campaign in December and throughout the challenging year of 2020. Your gifts made a huge difference for our families; ensuring their children could continue to spend quality time with their parents and supporting families through the process of healing, repair and finding peaceful resolutions. As we move forward into 2021, your gifts will have a profound impact on our ability to expand our services and proactively reach more families, before they decide to separate. Stay tuned - there is more to come!

Looking for great advice on parenting, building resilient children, family law, co-parenting and resources available to your family? Check out our newly re-formatted blog page on the Hannah's House website:https://hannahs-house.org/about-us/our-blog/!

Many families going through Family Court find the court orders for supervised visitation to be confusing and stressful. It's important to become an informed consumer when vetting court-order service agencies, because not all adhere to California laws and standards. At Hannah’s House, we focus on several important factors to accomplish our goals of building rapport and establishing basic trust with each parent; and then providing professional and accurate forensic services. Read more here

Supervised exchange is a structured way to ensure that everybody is treated fairly and equally so they learn how to make transitions between homes calmly and routinely, without uncertainty and fear. Read more about how supervised exchange helps families transition through breakup and find their new normal - Part II

Parenting can be challenging, even under the best of circumstances. Do you ever feel like you could use an encouraging coach to guide you through parenting dilemmas? Hannah's House offers coaching for Parenting, Co-Parenting, and Parent-Child Relationships. Free 30-minute consult via Skype (coparentingcoach) or in person! Email [email protected] for more info. Your coach is available via a phone appointment, text, or video chat when you need the support and guidance.

The first 3-6 months of a family breakup can be difficult as parents and children grapple with the stress of conflict and tension. Too many families are left without adequate support through these important early months and parents frequently end up in an escalated high-conflict stalemate with each other. But it doesn't have to be this way. There is a safe, inexpensive, and readily available service that can both support and protect everyone throughout the break-up transitio...n: Supervised Exchange provides a temporary break for mom and dad from seeing each other so frequently when feelings are still raw and allows the children to move between Dad’s House and Mom’s House without worrying about witnessing family conflict or their own loyalty conflict. Read more about how this service, available for any family going through breakup, can help ease the path into a peaceful new normal. See more

Research shows that the presence of an animal can reduce stress and anxiety and promote a feeling of safety. If you own a pet, you have probably experienced this. Did you know that Hannah's House has a well-established Human-Animal Bond Program that helps with the parent-child bond in our agency setting? Read on to see how powerful this program has been in helping estranged families warmly reconnect.

Did you know that Hannah's House provides child, individual and couples therapy? Our therapy offerings are individualized to meet the unique needs of each family and family member: - Children, ages 4-17: play-therapy, art therapy, music therapy, sand tray, Mom's house/Dad's house - Individual Adult: we are specialists in loss, grief, childhood adverse experiences, adult traumas, family breakup, substance abuse and life adjustment changes - Couples: we help partners focus on ...each other as friends and lovers, not as parents; we help partners develop the couples skills needed to have a deep and loving connection with each other separate from the parenting role Contact [email protected] for more information and to schedule an appointment

Something we may not think about when it comes to positive parenting and co-parenting: parents need to be able to acknowledge their own weaknesses and inconsistencies to themselves. Parents who are able to have compassion for their own challenges become better able to model appropriate problem-solving for their children.

A key aspect of positive parenting is to help our children gradually develop the skills to cope with change and transition. That's why protecting the quiet, dependable routines that sooth and reassure us and our children through the ups and downs of life is so important. Read more here