Month: July 2020

AFCC-MN Member Joseph Reid, PhD, LMFT, is working in partnership with the African American Leadership Forum and the Cultural Wellness Center to create a directory of culturally identified healers and culturally competent providers.  The directory will be available to community members to help ensure potential clients can identify and select providers based upon their cultural Read more…

As part of the court’s transition to more in person hearings, on July 7, 2020, the Chief Justice issued an order which requires any court staff or persons entering the courts to wear masks.  This applies to litigants, judicial officers, court staff, attorneys and anyone entering the court.  The order is attached.  This will be Read more…

Published in 2010, the AFCC Guidelines for Court-Involved Therapy set out a clear analysis of how court-involved therapy differs from “traditional” or “community” therapy.  Many of us have worked on cases in which a child’s therapist, not only does not invite both parents’ participation in the process, but refuses to include a parent who requests Read more…