PARENT HELP Program Fact Sheet
What is Parent Help?
PARENT HELP offers a variety of FREE, voluntary and confidential telephone-based services to help dads and moms who are living apart resolve their conflicts over such issues as child custody, visitation, child support and co-parenting.
Who answers the phone?
PARENT HELP services are provided by experienced family services professionals including social workers, mediators, parenting educators and legal advocates.
How are referrals made?
Parents may self refer and do not need a formal refferal to participate. However most referrals come from our human services collegues, NYS Child Support case managers, NYS support courts and other NY social service agencies who give parents the program brochure, refer parents to the program poster and/or verbally suggest that parents with issues call the PARENT HELP toll-free telephone number.
If referred, do parents have to make the call to PARENT HELP?
No. Parent participation is totally voluntary. Parent participation is not mandated or required by child support enforcement or support court.
PARENT HELP Program Details
PARENT HELP is a project of Child Find of America, Inc., a national organization working to prevent and resolve child abduction and child abuse. Visit www.childfindofamerica.org to learn more about our programs and services. Funding for this PARENT HELP project was provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant 90FR0020/01.
Have Other Questions? Call:
Donna Linder, Executive Director of Child Find of America: 1-845-883-6060
Ray Tomaselli, PARENT HELP Project Director: 1-800-716-3468
