Hamilton County Indiana Co-Parenting Education Foundations

Course purpose, pending-review status, education-only boundaries, and the role of parent education in custody and parenting-time matters.

• Recognize that the course is not legal advice, therapy, mediation, or a custody evaluation.
• Understand that Indiana enrollment stays closed until written acceptance or listing guidance is received.
• Identify how parent education can help families lower conflict around children.

How separation, disrupted routines, divided loyalties, and adult conflict may affect children at different developmental stages.

• Describe common child reactions to family transition.
• Avoid placing children in messenger, spy, judge, or comforter roles.
• Choose age-appropriate reassurance and routines.

Daily parenting responsibilities, school and health routines, supervision, transportation, information sharing, and child-centered decisions.

• Identify practical parenting duties that continue across households.
• Use child-centered questions when making parenting-time decisions.
• Separate adult relationship conflict from parenting responsibilities.

Lower-conflict communication, written-message habits, response delays, respectful boundaries, and avoiding escalation.

• Use short, child-focused messages for logistics.
• Recognize escalation patterns before they become harmful.
• Set respectful boundaries without attacking the other parent.

Parenting-time routines, exchanges, school events, holidays, make-up time, and reducing transition stress for children.

• Identify common details that belong in a parenting plan or schedule conversation.
• Prepare calmer transitions between homes.
• Avoid asking children to negotiate adult schedule problems.

Education-only discussion of child-related expenses, information sharing, records, and keeping money conflict away from children.

• Keep child-related financial conversations in adult channels.
• Distinguish general education from legal or financial advice.
• Use records and calm communication to reduce misunderstandings.

Recognizing when ordinary co-parenting tools may not fit, using safer communication boundaries, and finding appropriate resources.

• Identify when safety concerns require outside help or modified communication.
• Use resource referrals without diagnosing or investigating the family.
• Avoid pressuring unsafe direct contact.

Course review, final knowledge check, evaluation, certificate fields, verification path, records, support, and next steps after completion.

• Review the main child-centered concepts from the course.
• Understand planned completion and certificate requirements.
• Know how support, certificate verification, and records retention are planned to work.