Co-Parenting

In any given year, tens of thousands of children experience the divorce or separation of their parents in the state of Wisconsin. This is can be an extremely stressful time for parents and children alike, and without the right supports for the family, the fallout for children can often lead to negative outcomes in many significant areas of their daily life.

But it doesn’t have to. Research has identified the specific skills that parents need to learn, to make co-parenting successful. Research has also confirmed that co-parenting classes, like the ones that UW-Madison Division of Extension offers, can be very effective at helping families weather this period in good shape.

While the divorce or separation of parents is a hard time, it is also a sensitive period in which the co-parents are establishing a new relationship, and in which each hour of our instruction can have a much larger impact than usual. In that sense, this is a strategic Extension program: targeted to an exact point in the lifespan when people can learn and change rapidly, and delivering a proven program that makes a tangible difference in lives.

Locate Upcoming Extension Co-Parenting Programs

Adams – Jennifer Swensen
Ashland – Heidi Ungrodt
Barron – Missy Bablick
Bayfield – Liz Lexau
Buffalo – Mary Wood
Chippewa – Jeanne Walsh
Columbia – Amanda Coorough
Vilas – Sara Richie
Florence – Tierany Rugg
Fond du Lac – Shelley Tidemann
Forest – Sara Richie
Grant – Bev Doll
Iowa – Ruth Schriefer
Kewaunee – Renee Koenig
Manitowoc – Position open. Call 920-683-4169 for information.
Marquette – Sue Allen
Oneida – Sara Richie
Outagamie – Karen Dickrell
Pepin – Mary Wood
Price – Elizabeth Slack
Sauk County – Amanda Coorough
Washburn – Danette Hopke
Winnebago – Mandi Dornfeld