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Welcome to Bridging Families
Effective Help for Conflict solution
Bridging Families is your reliable partner in conflict resolution between parents and family disputes.
Our goal is to help municipalities address their challenges in social cases that involve complex issues related to divorce/breakup, child custody, and visitation. By offering swift and effective intervention in conflicts, Bridging Families helps municipalities save money and resources and prevents long-term family-related problems from arising.
By choosing Bridging Families as your partner, you are investing in a solution that promotes family welfare and reduces the municipality's expenses.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help your municipality effectively resolve parental conflicts with lasting results.
Spar tid, ressourcer og frem familievelfærden
Forebyg konflikter og skab varige løsninger
Divorce and breakup-related issues can be financially and emotionally demanding, and they frequently require substantial resources. Often, family disputes end up at the Family Law Agency (Familieretshuset) where the waiting time is long, and in the meantime, problems pile up when families cannot get help and cannot move forward. We understand how burdensome and demanding family issues can be for both municipalities and the affected families. Therefore, we have developed a tailored solution that provides significant benefits for both families and municipalities.
The family mediator works with conflicts that involve everything from custody and residence to the day-to-day cooperation between the parents. Minor, manageable problems often escalate to such an extent that they become unresolvable outside the family law system. Often, the parents or the children's daycare and schools notify the municipality about these problems, which results in a child welfare investigation. Bridging Families aims to address issues at their beginning, while they are still minor, before the family's conflicts escalate into unmanageable situations.
By establishing a positive collaboration from the beginning, we provide a foundation for a constructive interaction between the parents, thereby avoiding prolonged casework time in the Family Law Agency (Familieretshuset) and the family court.
What do you gain by choosing Bridging Families?
A partnership with Bridging Families can support the municipality's efforts in a variety of family-focused areas. We can assist in both individual cases and preventative efforts, ensuring a swift process that relieves tension and pressure for both parents and children.
Cost savings
- Our services reduce the need for extensive social interventions and legal proceedings, which are often both time-consuming and expensive.
- By intervening early and effectively, we reduce the need for long-term case processing, resulting in direct savings for the municipality.
Swift and effective handling of family disputes
- We offer prompt response and intervention solutions that help resolve conflicts prior to their escalation.
- Our experienced mediators and conflict negotiators use evidence-based methods designed to achieve sustainable solutions in a short time.
Focus on the welfare of children
- By resolving parental conflicts promptly and effectively, we ensure that the children's well-being comes first, allowing the child to have a stable and safe daily life as soon as possible
- Our goal is to establish steady, healthy, and harmonious home environments that foster children's growth and well-being.
Prevention of social problems
- Effective conflict resolution reduces the risk of social issues such as substance abuse, violence, and mental health conditions, which often occur because of unresolved family issues. This reduces the pressure on the municipality's social services systems.
Professional and discreet casework
- Experienced professionals in our team ensure the professional and discreet handling of each individual case.
- We guarantee high quality and confidentiality in our work, which provides support and guidance for both municipalities and families.
How do I start cooperating with Bridging Families?
Contact and Assessment
- You contact us, and we conduct an initial assessment of the situation.
- We are developing an action plan based on the specific needs and challenges.
Intervention and Solution
- Our conflict mediators engage in close collaboration with the involved parties to find a sustainable solution.
- We use a variety of methods, including mediation and counselling, to foster agreement and mutual understanding, as well as legally binding agreements.
Follow-up and Support
- After the conflict/family dispute is resolved, we provide follow-up support to ensure the maintenance of the agreed-upon solutions.
- We will also offer suggestions for preventing future conflicts.
What is mediation?
Mediation is conflict resolution through dialogue, where a neutral third party, called a mediator, assists the involved parties in reaching a mutually acceptable solution to their conflict and disagreement.
Mediation includes the following aspects:
A neutral third party
The mediator is impartial and has no decision-making authority in the matter. The mediator's responsibility is to encourage dialogue between the parties in order to enable them to identify their own resolution.
Voluntary participation
Mediation participation is entirely voluntary. Both parties must agree to participate and can leave at any time.
Confidentiality
Since mediation is confidential, the information shared cannot be used in a lawsuit. This creates a safe space for open and honest communication.
Focus on the future
Mediation maintains its emphasis on the development of future solutions that are mutually acceptable, rather than ruminating on past disputes and disagreements.
Our Experiences with Mediation
Effective Help for Conflict solution
At Bridging Families, we have many positive experiences with mediation. We are experiencing, among other things, that the parents gain a better understanding of each other and become better at communicating even outside the guidance related situation. This ensures a new level of flexibility in collaboration around the child. Specifically, we observe that mediation can reduce future conflicts and potential disputes and develop a long-term sustainable agreement focused on the parents' wishes and interests while simultaneously establishing a positive foundation for future collaboration.
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