Rhode Island

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Don't let divorce isolate children from Grandparents

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Please contact Mark at CRCofRI@aol.com for meeting schedule

The Best Parent is Both Parents

The Children's Rights Council of Rhode Island (CRC) provides information, education and support for single, separated, divorced and never-married parents.

CRC

P.O. Box 40643

Providence, RI 02940

For Administrative Office and Hotline

401-437-8010

For Child Access Services

401-741-2498

Email: CRCofRI@aol.com

The CRC supports joint custody, mediation and legislation which preserves vital access between children and both their parents. Since 1996, court ordered use of CRC Parenting Education, Access and Supervised Visitation Programs has led many parents to overcome their hostility. Our research has found that there is a direct link between child access and payment of child support.

About the Children's Rights Council of RI         

The Children’s Rights Council is a 501(C) 3 corporation, founded as the Children’s Rights Council of CT in Hamden, CT in 1999 and in Rhode Island, as the CRC of RI, in 2002. The CRC is affiliated with the national Children’s Rights Council, Washington, DC. Family Advisory Board Members include Abigail Van Buren (“Dear Abby”), famed psychoanalyst Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross , Karen DeCrow, former President and founder of National Organization for Women and Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D., esteemed child psychologist and author of longest longitudinal study of child of divorce.

The Children’s Rights Council’s of Rhode Island mission is to provide information, education and support to those families who are divorcing, to help prevent separations. The CRC assists single, separated, divorced and never-married parents on issues affecting custody, visitation and child access between all family members including grandparents and extended family. Staff can also provide advice on Parenting Agreements, Parental Alienation, Family Policy in Community and Business, Corporate Productivity and Children’s Best Interests.

Strategic

1. Develop Rhode Island CRC Family Advisory Board.
2. Collaborate with other service organizations.
3. Provide social programming for non-custodial and single parents and children.
4. Establish a multi-media learning center for families in structural transition.
5. Coordinate regular public and private agency review of family and child needs.
6. Establish a curriculum for professionals to learn interdisciplinary needs of family members. Curriculum to include continuing education courses.
7. Network with organizations, including professional, fraternal, governmental, municipal.

Tactical Goal

1. Establish ‘800 information hotline’ for family members in crisis.
2. Obtain neutral child transfer and supervised visitation sites in strategic places.                               3. Collaborate with youth and adult services agencies to help family members adapt to family     structural changes accompanying separation, divorce and remarriage
4. Provide Mentorship Programs for children of separated parents.
6. Establish a Separated Parents Support Group
7. Publish newsletter on and off the web for parents and community leaders
8. Produce Cable TV and Radio program on single and non-custodial parenting,
9. Identify, request and obtain funding and in-kind sponsors from corporate, business and           Community organizations.

The membership board is Chaired by Mark Roseman, founder, and consists of attorneys, therapists and other concerned representatives from the Connecticut community, especially parents, charged with the goals of improving our children's mental health and additionally, being an integral part of our children's lives.

National Chapter of Children' s Rights Council

Formed in 1985, the Children's Rights Council (CRC) is a national
nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, that works to assure children meaningful and
continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital
status.

Though an independent agency, the CRC of CT is affiliated with the National Children's Rights Council based in Washington, DC. National Advisory Panel members include "Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren), Senator Bob Graham (D-FL.), Actor David Birney and comedienne Phyllis Diller.

According to Children’s Rights Council research, the 1990 Rhode Island divorce rate exceeded fifty seven percent of the married rate, almost twenty percent above the national average of forty nine percent.

Rhode Island fathers were awarded sole custody just 5.4% of the time, far fewer than any other state. Mothers received sole custody more than sixty percent of the time while joint custody was awarded at 31 %, not a stellar performance nationally.

"More than a quarter of American children—nearly 17 million—do not live with their father. Girls without a father in their life are two and a half times as likely to get pregnant and 53 percent more likely to commit suicide. Boys without a father in their life are 63 percent more likely to run away and 37 percent more likely to abuse drugs. Both girls and boys are twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to end up in jail and nearly four times as likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems."
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services, March 26, 1999.

Research shows the lack of involvement by both natural parents puts our children at risk.

PLEASE NOTE MEETING TIMES: Thursday evenings: 1st and 3rd of the month; Separated/Divorced Parenting Meetings: Discussions of court process, visitation, co-parenting, access of children by non-custodial parent and grandparents.

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We need chairpersons for the following committees:

Mediation

Parent & Child Social Program

Community Outreach

Children's Program

Development and Fundraising

Public Relations

Volunteer and Student Intern