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BRADLEY
CRAIG,
received his Master's Degree in Social Work at UTA and is a
Licensed Social Worker and Certified Family Life Educator. He
is a noted co-parent educator in the North Texas area, and has
developed a number of parent education programs for families
raising children in two homes. He began specializing in working
with families raising children between two homes in 1992 when
he was hired by Tarrant County to conduct social study investigations
and provide mediation sessions. He helped them design an orientation
for litigating families offered by the county.
In 1997,
he developed the Children in the Middle Co-parenting Education
class. Brad left the County in 1997 to open up a program called
Children in the Middle Co-parenting Services, Inc., a comprehensive
agency designed to help adults raise children between two homes.In
addition, he began offering consultation sessions where he would
meet with couples and their significant others to develop a
shared parenting plan. Children in the Middle Co-parenting Services,
Inc. was closed in December of 2003 when Brad was hired to develop
and maintain a co-parenting program with a social service organization.
He is currently in private practice and contracts with organizations
to provide services to families.
As a social
worker and family life educator, Brad is a trained family law
mediator and provides family law mediation training currently
with other organizations. In addition, he offers training for
other professionals to structure approaches to help these children
being raised between two homes. He works with divorcing families
and those with continuing custody/parenting time issue as a
Family Mediator, Collaborative Law Allied Professional, Co-parenting
Case Manager, Co-parenting Coach, Educator, Parenting Facilitator,
and Parenting Coordinator.
Brad has
written curriculum for co-parent education programs and has
developed educational videos. He has been a guest speaker on
many television and radio programs and is often asked to speak
at local, state and national conferences on co-parenting issues.
He hosted an ongoing cable television series "The Children
in the Middle Show," aimed at educating viewers about both
the effects of parental conflict after a separation on children
and the services available to help families through co-parenting
issues.
Brad continues
his education through the following organizations:
Association
of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC)
Texas AFCC
National Association of Social
Workers
National Council
on Family Relations
International
Academy of Collaborative Professionals
Collaborative Lawyers
of Arlington and Mansfield
Phi
Kappa Phi
Tarrant
and Dallas County Family Law Bar Associations
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