For nearly two decades the Children’s Rights Council (CRC) has maintained that equal access to children in concert with parental education are effective measures to promote healthy family relationships and reduce the incidence of neglect and risk to children all too often attributed to confusion, guilt, anxiety, and abuse exacted by unintentionally destructive parents.
The Shared Parenting & Equal Access to Kids (SPEAK) Program is a teaching system of primary prevention and corrective parenting techniques designed to reduce the more than 2.5 million children at-risk each year of being caught up in a statistical sea of suicide, homicide, violent crime, substance abuse, promiscuity, school dropout, out-of-wedlock childbirths, deficient emotional and financial supports, and other factors which adversely affect the healthy development of children and families.
SPEAK is a wraparound, hands-on system of educational modules that focus on behavioral modification and coaching; parental skills development, responsibility and awareness training; and harmonious social, legal and family communications and relationships. Working in association with mandatory interventions from family, juvenile and domestic relations court; introduction of social and legislative changes through child and family advocacy; and integrating faith-based/community services and referrals, SPEAK provides parents the necessary insight, useful tools, and directed guidance to build and sustain a strong, healthy relationship (including marriage), and move past highly conflicted custody and access disputes to create a more nurturing circumstance for the child(ren) following the breakup of the family.
