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COOPERATIVE PARENTING FOR DIVIDED FAMILIES GROUPS'INITIATIVE

619 N. Murtland Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15208
24 - HOUR HOTLINE
(412) 404-8514
E-mail: coparenting@yahoo.com 

CPGI GROUPS' INITIATIVE is a collaboration of non-profit organizations that have come together to advocate for children's rights in issues addressed in Family Court. We meet every Thursday at 7:00p.m at the United Way Building, One Smithfield Street; downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday and Sunday meetings are at designated sites.

Our Mission
To stress the importance of responsibility in keeping non-custodial parents involved in parenting after divorce and separation and focus on the importance of both parents in their child's life. To dissolve conflict between parents, and encourage a working relationship for the best interest of the children by facilitating a written shared parenting agreement.

To provide support, education, and information on child support, custody, parenting plans and other parenting issues. To promote marriage. To keep all our members informed on the resent laws concerning families. To educate our youth on the vital aspect of parenting.

Our organization is unique because we combined professional expertise in working with parents’ teams and staff teams. This provides options to expensive lawyers and court time, costly mediation sessions, adversarial proceedings and prolonged bitterness. We are not controlled nor employed by the court. Our organizations are membership and donation funded.

We EDUCATE in 4 major areas:
1. Conflict resolution and anger management 
2. Custody and parenting arrangements
3. Child support 
4. Distribution of martial assets 

Organization contacts:

 

Children's Advocacy Network (CAN)
     Mary Colonna      (412)-271-0185
                                             childadvocacynet.org

Coalition for Fathering Families (CFF)
     Larry Davis, President    (412)-731-5551

Cooperative Parenting for Divided Families (CPDF)
    Denise Simpson, President    (412)-404-8514

coparenting@yahoo.com

Male Initiative Program (MIP)
      Melvin Hubbard El,     (412)-247-4009

National Congress for Fathers and Children (NCFC)
     Kevin Sheahen, President    (412)-571-3038

pghdads@aol.com

 

Grandparent's Rights to Access and Mediated  Parental Support (GRAMPS) 
             Laverne Hunter    (412)-244-1459

alongstory@yahoo.com

Responsible and Involved Dads (RAID)_
Mark A. Symms                (412) 404-8514

Denise D. Simpson
Director/Group Coordinator of CPGI.
 

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