Description
Family mediation aims to promote the well-being and quality of life of children, who are often instrumentally involved in conflicts, by safeguarding their emotional relationships with both parents, who are helped to actively negotiate agreements concerning the reorganisation of family relations. It is therefore an opportunity for parental couples, undergoing separation and/or divorce, to be responsible protagonists in decisions concerning their children.
It is a neutral meeting space offered to seek together, in the presence of personnel qualified in family mediation, concrete and satisfactory agreements in favour of the children. The process involves approximately 10/12 meetings in which both parents participate; children are not expected to attend the meetings.
The family mediation service can be accessed in two ways:
- The territorial social services of the Comunità di Valle and the Val d'Adige Territory to citizens residing in their territory, through their own qualified operators or in agreement, at the local offices of the social welfare service.
- A.L.F.I.D. (Associazione Laica Famiglie in Difficoltà) to which citizens residing in the provincial territory may turn, regardless of their area of residence.