Upcoming Events
SAVE THE DATES!!!
Here is the 2019 schedule and 2020 schedule of our guest speakers for our international seminar calls. These are our top experts in the world regarding alienation. We are extremely fortunate to have these experts who give us their time, knowledge and support at no charge to any of us. These calls are extremely helpful to all alienated family members in understanding more, in helping you to get through the hell on earth of being alienated from our children and grandchildren and knowledge to deal with all aspects of those we have to deal with in this. These calls are also a huge asset to those in the mental health and legal professions as well as researchers, writers and child advocates who work in the field of alienation.These calls are for everyone all over the world. We at present have 36 countries participating in these calls.You may call in on a free conference line, Skype or download our desk top app to join our calls. Please make these calls a priority. You will be grateful you did.
2019
Sunday, December 1st Dr. Joshua Coleman "Survival Strategies for Alienated and Estranged Parents and Grandparents at the Holidays"
2020
Sunday, January 5th Steven Miller, M. D.
Sunday, February 2nd Randi Kreger and Bill Eddy
Sunday, March 1st J Michael Bone, Ph. D and Bob Evans, PH. D
Sunday, April 5th William Bernet, M. D.
Sunday, May 3rd Caitlin Burgess, JD, MA, LMFT
Sunday, June 7th Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW - R
Sunday, July 12th Brian Ludmer, B. Com, LLB
Sunday, August 2nd Karen Woodall, Grad. Dip and Nick Woodal, M. A.
Sunday, September 13th Carol Golly, Ph. D, LCSW
Sunday, October 4th Amy Baker, Ph. D
Sunday, November 8th "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 6th Ashish Joshi, Attorney
Here is the 2019 schedule and 2020 schedule of our guest speakers for our international seminar calls. These are our top experts in the world regarding alienation. We are extremely fortunate to have these experts who give us their time, knowledge and support at no charge to any of us. These calls are extremely helpful to all alienated family members in understanding more, in helping you to get through the hell on earth of being alienated from our children and grandchildren and knowledge to deal with all aspects of those we have to deal with in this. These calls are also a huge asset to those in the mental health and legal professions as well as researchers, writers and child advocates who work in the field of alienation.These calls are for everyone all over the world. We at present have 36 countries participating in these calls.You may call in on a free conference line, Skype or download our desk top app to join our calls. Please make these calls a priority. You will be grateful you did.
2019
Sunday, December 1st Dr. Joshua Coleman "Survival Strategies for Alienated and Estranged Parents and Grandparents at the Holidays"
2020
Sunday, January 5th Steven Miller, M. D.
Sunday, February 2nd Randi Kreger and Bill Eddy
Sunday, March 1st J Michael Bone, Ph. D and Bob Evans, PH. D
Sunday, April 5th William Bernet, M. D.
Sunday, May 3rd Caitlin Burgess, JD, MA, LMFT
Sunday, June 7th Linda Gottlieb, LMFT, LCSW - R
Sunday, July 12th Brian Ludmer, B. Com, LLB
Sunday, August 2nd Karen Woodall, Grad. Dip and Nick Woodal, M. A.
Sunday, September 13th Carol Golly, Ph. D, LCSW
Sunday, October 4th Amy Baker, Ph. D
Sunday, November 8th "HOW TO COPE WITH THE HOLIDAYS"
(This call will feature several of our experts with information and support for this difficult time)
Sunday, December 6th Ashish Joshi, Attorney
"Survival Strategies for Alienated and Estranged Parents and Grandparents at the Holidays"
On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 8 PM EST, Dr. Joshua Coleman will be our guest speaker on our international support seminar. His topic for this call is a much needed one. These calls are of no charge to anyone. You have the option to either call in on our conference line, audio skype or download our desk top app.
Many alienated parents and grandparents feel a sense of dread when a holiday approaches. Whether it's their own birthday, the birthday of their estranged child, their grandchild, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Hannukah or the High Holy Days, they all want to know how they are going to survive it. Some common questions are:
* What do I tell people when they ask me what I'm going to do with my kids over the holidays or my birthday?
* How do I manage my feelings of sadness, jealousy, or anger at my friends or children?
* Are there any activities that are better or worse to do on those days?
* Will I ever be able to get through a holiday and feel sane and whole again?
In this short lecture, we’ll discuss do’s and don’ts for surviving the holidays.
We have 36 countries who participate in our calls with over 1,000 callers participating. Each caller may submit one question each and your question must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The deadline to register for the call is Sunday, December 1, 2019 no later than 5 PM EST. These are both firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register for the call, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of London, Cornell Weill Medical School, and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication, Greater Good Magazine.
Dr. Coleman is frequently contacted by the media for opinions and commentary about changes in the American family. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, The BBC, NYU Psychiatry Radio and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television.
His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, Atlantic Magazine, The Shriver Report, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine, The Baltimore Sun and many others.
He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: The Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Korean, and are also available in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
He is the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
Dr Coleman also writes music for film and television. His music has been featured on Lethal Weapon, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Longmire, Shameless, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Fresh Off the Boat, Supergirl, Mistresses, Hustlers, RuPaul's Drag Race and many more.
* What do I tell people when they ask me what I'm going to do with my kids over the holidays or my birthday?
* How do I manage my feelings of sadness, jealousy, or anger at my friends or children?
* Are there any activities that are better or worse to do on those days?
* Will I ever be able to get through a holiday and feel sane and whole again?
In this short lecture, we’ll discuss do’s and don’ts for surviving the holidays.
We have 36 countries who participate in our calls with over 1,000 callers participating. Each caller may submit one question each and your question must be in relation to the subject of this call. Deadline to submit your question is Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The deadline to register for the call is Sunday, December 1, 2019 no later than 5 PM EST. These are both firm deadlines!! To submit your question and/or register for the call, please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of London, Cornell Weill Medical School, and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication, Greater Good Magazine.
Dr. Coleman is frequently contacted by the media for opinions and commentary about changes in the American family. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, The BBC, NYU Psychiatry Radio and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television.
His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, Atlantic Magazine, The Shriver Report, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine, The Baltimore Sun and many others.
He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: The Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Korean, and are also available in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
He is the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
Dr Coleman also writes music for film and television. His music has been featured on Lethal Weapon, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Longmire, Shameless, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Fresh Off the Boat, Supergirl, Mistresses, Hustlers, RuPaul's Drag Race and many more.
PRE EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BEGINS JANUARY 2, 2020
https://www.familyaccessfightingforchildrensrights.org/helping-courts-understand-the-phenomenon-of-alienation-nc-conference.html
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
There will be a Holiday Parade in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday, December 7, 2019 5:00, celebrating the Holiday Season. Please remember the date!
https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/recreation/events/annual-holiday-parade-4
Time to Put Kids First will be marching to bring attention to the needs of children and families to focus on what is important.
For more information, contact me or https://www.timetoputkidsfirst.org/ for details on where we will stage.
CHICAGO
C-PAG & RELATED EVENTSØ NOVEMBER 8: Lisa Baker is performing in Wheaton to bring awareness to Parental Alienation and Estrangement. The band will be rockin' from 7-10pm and a $10 donation is suggested to help raise money for Parental Alienation Awareness. You’re invited for an evening of comradery and music.
Ø NOVEMBER 21 & DECEMBER 16 are the next C-PAG support group meetings from 6:30 - 8:30 pm at the Elk Grove Village Public Library, Lee Maternowski Room. As always, if you have specific issues or questions you would like us to address, please let us know and we will work it into the agenda.
EQUAL SHARED PARENTING (information from Mick Gerhardt)Did you know that it only takes 7 members of the Illinois House to stop us from our Equal-Shared Parenting Bill (aka HB185)? However, they are a specific 7 members of the Judiciary Committee. Of the 118 Representatives in the Illinois House, Equal-Shared Parenting must make it past the Judiciary Committee (14 members). If 7 are against, it does not go to the full House for a vote, meaning if 111 Representatives are in favor of Equal-Shared Parenting, if 7 of the below listed Representatives are against the Bill, the Bill dies. Our call to action is to contact these legislators in any capacity possible.
These are the members of the Judiciary Committee to contact asking them to sponsor or support an Equal-Shared Parenting Bill. Convincing these individuals is instrumental in getting passage of Equal-Shared Parenting.
House District
Order
Representative
Local Office Phone
Springfield Phone
Email
Judiciary - Civil
Family Law Sub-Committee
Attorney
Family Notes
11th District
11
Ann M. Williams
(773) 880-9082
(217) 782-2458
ann@repannwilliams.com
X
X
Y
Single, big on gay right issues
17th District
17
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
(847) 486-8810
(217) 782-4194
info@gong-gershowitz.com
X
X
Y
Married, 3 kids, tied to DV orgs., specifically Michael Strauss'
25th District
25
Curtis J. Tarver, II
(773) 363-8870
(217) 782-8121
mkinsella@hds.ilga.gov
X
X
Y
Daughter, no wife listed
37th District
37
Margo McDermed
(815) 277-2079
(217) 782-0424
McDermed@ilhousegop.org
X
X
Y
Married , 2 adult children
48th District
48
Terra Costa Howard
(630) 812-9292
(217) 782-8037
ecampbell@hds.ilga.gov
X
X
Y
Married, 3 daughters, Divorce attorney, works as a GAL
59th District
59
Daniel Didech
(847) 478-9909
(217) 782-0499
Info@repdidech.com
X
X
Y
Married
60th District
60
Rita Mayfield
(847) 599-2800
(217) 558-1012
60thdistrict@gmail.com
X
X
N
2 children, no husband listed
64th District
64
Tom Weber
(847) 629-5439
(217) 782-1664
weber@ilhousegop.gov
X
X
N
Wife, 2 sons
79th District
79
Lindsay Parkhurst
(815) 523-7779
(217) 782-5981
Lindsay@LindsayParkhurst.com
X
X
Y
Married, daughter, Divorce attorney
29th District
29
Thaddeus Jones
(708) 596-7053
(217) 782-8087
repjones.jones@gmail.com
X
N
2 Sons, no wife listed
32nd District
32
Andre Thapedi
(773) 581-9250
(217) 782-1702
illinois32district@gmail.com
X
Y
No family listed
47th District
47
Deanne M. Mazzochi
(630) 852-8633
(217) 782-1448
mazzochi@ilhousegop.org
X
Y
Married and "family"
89th District
89
Andrew S. Chesney
(815) 232-0774
(217) 782-8186
chesney@ilhousegov.gov
X
N
Married
113th District
113
Jay Hoffman
(618) 416-7407
(217) 782-0104
repjayhoffman@gmail.com
X
Y
Married, two children
HELP OTHERS BY SHARING YOUR STORYOur blog is picking up traction – please share your parental alienation experience with ChicagoPAG@gmail.com. You may remain anonymous or not, it is entirely up to you. Blogs are posted here: https://c-pag.weebly.com/pa-blog-living-our-alienated-lives.
Ø NOVEMBER 21 & DECEMBER 16 are the next C-PAG support group meetings from 6:30 - 8:30 pm at the Elk Grove Village Public Library, Lee Maternowski Room. As always, if you have specific issues or questions you would like us to address, please let us know and we will work it into the agenda.
EQUAL SHARED PARENTING (information from Mick Gerhardt)Did you know that it only takes 7 members of the Illinois House to stop us from our Equal-Shared Parenting Bill (aka HB185)? However, they are a specific 7 members of the Judiciary Committee. Of the 118 Representatives in the Illinois House, Equal-Shared Parenting must make it past the Judiciary Committee (14 members). If 7 are against, it does not go to the full House for a vote, meaning if 111 Representatives are in favor of Equal-Shared Parenting, if 7 of the below listed Representatives are against the Bill, the Bill dies. Our call to action is to contact these legislators in any capacity possible.
These are the members of the Judiciary Committee to contact asking them to sponsor or support an Equal-Shared Parenting Bill. Convincing these individuals is instrumental in getting passage of Equal-Shared Parenting.
House District
Order
Representative
Local Office Phone
Springfield Phone
Judiciary - Civil
Family Law Sub-Committee
Attorney
Family Notes
11th District
11
Ann M. Williams
(773) 880-9082
(217) 782-2458
ann@repannwilliams.com
X
X
Y
Single, big on gay right issues
17th District
17
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
(847) 486-8810
(217) 782-4194
info@gong-gershowitz.com
X
X
Y
Married, 3 kids, tied to DV orgs., specifically Michael Strauss'
25th District
25
Curtis J. Tarver, II
(773) 363-8870
(217) 782-8121
mkinsella@hds.ilga.gov
X
X
Y
Daughter, no wife listed
37th District
37
Margo McDermed
(815) 277-2079
(217) 782-0424
McDermed@ilhousegop.org
X
X
Y
Married , 2 adult children
48th District
48
Terra Costa Howard
(630) 812-9292
(217) 782-8037
ecampbell@hds.ilga.gov
X
X
Y
Married, 3 daughters, Divorce attorney, works as a GAL
59th District
59
Daniel Didech
(847) 478-9909
(217) 782-0499
Info@repdidech.com
X
X
Y
Married
60th District
60
Rita Mayfield
(847) 599-2800
(217) 558-1012
60thdistrict@gmail.com
X
X
N
2 children, no husband listed
64th District
64
Tom Weber
(847) 629-5439
(217) 782-1664
weber@ilhousegop.gov
X
X
N
Wife, 2 sons
79th District
79
Lindsay Parkhurst
(815) 523-7779
(217) 782-5981
Lindsay@LindsayParkhurst.com
X
X
Y
Married, daughter, Divorce attorney
29th District
29
Thaddeus Jones
(708) 596-7053
(217) 782-8087
repjones.jones@gmail.com
X
N
2 Sons, no wife listed
32nd District
32
Andre Thapedi
(773) 581-9250
(217) 782-1702
illinois32district@gmail.com
X
Y
No family listed
47th District
47
Deanne M. Mazzochi
(630) 852-8633
(217) 782-1448
mazzochi@ilhousegop.org
X
Y
Married and "family"
89th District
89
Andrew S. Chesney
(815) 232-0774
(217) 782-8186
chesney@ilhousegov.gov
X
N
Married
113th District
113
Jay Hoffman
(618) 416-7407
(217) 782-0104
repjayhoffman@gmail.com
X
Y
Married, two children
HELP OTHERS BY SHARING YOUR STORYOur blog is picking up traction – please share your parental alienation experience with ChicagoPAG@gmail.com. You may remain anonymous or not, it is entirely up to you. Blogs are posted here: https://c-pag.weebly.com/pa-blog-living-our-alienated-lives.
CALL IN FOR THE HOLIDAYS
I know many are already starting to feel the effects of the upcoming holidays. I am going to open our conference line beginning at 5 PM EST on December 24, 2019 through midnight December 25, 2019. Listed below are the times people may call in just to chat together and be with each other. This can also be skyped and through our desk top download app as well. If you wish to participate, please let me know. I hope this helps.
Please invite others to this call and also to our international seminar calls. These are so effective and helpful to those attending. Please reach out and help others. To register please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
For our families,
Elaine Cobb
December 24, 2019
5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST
11 PM EDT - !2:00AM EST
December 25, 2019
2 AM EDT - 3 AM EST
5 AM EDT - 6 AM EST
8 AM EDT - 9 AM EST
11 AM EDT - 12 PM EST
2 PM EDT - 3 PM EST
5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST
11 PM EDT - 12 AM EST
Please invite others to this call and also to our international seminar calls. These are so effective and helpful to those attending. Please reach out and help others. To register please email familyaccessinnc@aol.com.
For our families,
Elaine Cobb
December 24, 2019
5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST
11 PM EDT - !2:00AM EST
December 25, 2019
2 AM EDT - 3 AM EST
5 AM EDT - 6 AM EST
8 AM EDT - 9 AM EST
11 AM EDT - 12 PM EST
2 PM EDT - 3 PM EST
5 PM EDT - 6 PM EST
8 PM EDT - 9 PM EST
11 PM EDT - 12 AM EST