Hear the Child and Views of the Child Reports
Children are profoundly impacted by separation and divorce. There are many decisions being made about their future and they can feel out of control.
Hear the Child and Views of the Child Reports give children an opportunity to express their thoughts and opinions on what they want and hope for.
Hearing from children can help the adults in their lives focus on making decisions that are in the best interest of their children. Giving a child a voice helps them to feel heard, valued, and empowered. It can improve child-parent relationships and the quality of the agreements reached.
Lori takes great care to craft questions that get to the heart of the matter while also honouring your child’s emotional well-being. She works to make your child feel comfortable sharing their thoughts, suggestions, and concerns.
Hear the Child Reports
Your child’s views are reported verbatim so that they can be heard and considered by the adults making the decisions. Neither the child nor the parents are assessed or evaluated and recommendations are not made.
Fees: $800 for one child
$1300 for two children
$400 for each additional child
Views of the Child Report
These reports are also a verbatim account of your child’s views. In addition, an assessment of alienation and/or influence will be included.
Fees: $1000 for one child
$1600 for two children
$400 for each additional child
Hear the Child and Views of the Child reports are customized based on the topics that are needed to be explored. Those topics are determined through an interview with each parent/guardian.
Common topics include
- parenting schedule
- the child’s residence
- the child’s relationship with a parent
- the child’s wishes for contact with other family
- the child’s school or activities
Gladue Reports
In the Canadian criminal justice system, if you are an Indigenous person, the judge must apply Gladue Principles when you are in court.
Gladue Principles are a way for a judge to take into consideration your unique circumstances and life experience.
One way of applying Gladue Principles is to order a Gladue Report. A Gladue Report weaves together your story from interviews with yourself, your family, and your community. It will highlight yours, your family’s, and your community’s experience and challenges that may have been faced due to colonization, racism, loss of language, and removal from land, residential school, and foster care to name a few.
This report can be used at a variety of points of interaction with the justice system including
Sentencing
- Bail Hearings
- Appeals
- Parole Board
- Extradition
- Mental Health Review Boards
- Professional Disciplinary Decisions
- Long Term Or Dangerous Offender Hearings
For more information please contact the BC First Nations Justice Council.
About Lori
Lori has extensive training in the areas of interviewing children, child development, mental health, trauma-informed practice, parental alienation, and family justice processes.
Lori will create an inclusive experience for children that takes into account cultural considerations and expression of identity.
She specializes in working with children with developmental or intellectual disabilities.
Lori also has extensive training and experience working with Indigenous individuals and communities. She has worked with individual members and communities from several Coast Salish Nations in a variety of capacities.
Lori is a mediator, conflict management consultant, and report writer.
Her professional affiliations include:
- BC First Nations Justice Council Gladue Report Writer Roster Member
- Hear the Child Roster Member
- Registered Family and Civil Mediation Roster Member with Mediate BC
- Qualified Family and Civil Mediation Roster Member with ADRBC
Lori is grateful to be a visitor and settler on the unceded and traditional territories of the Malahat, Tseycum, Tsartlip, and Tsawout Nations and gives thanks for their past and continued stewardship of this land.
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