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The mission of the Children First Foundation is to help children and caregivers effectively adapt to divorce, separation, parental responsibilities, and parenting time exchange issues by creating services and products that address these issues.

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Welcome to Children First Foundation

Children First also offers parenting education, internet classes, supervised parenting time, and an exchange center. Children First Foundation services families experiencing exceptional difficulty in the transfer of their children for the purpose of overnight parenting time or required supervised parenting. These difficulties often result in exposing the children to adult conflicts. The Children First Parenting Education Program was created and developed to “help parents help their children through divorce” by stressing the needs of children to their parents. We have two locations The Madison County Kid’s Corner in Wood River and the Family Center in Belleville Il.

Parenting Education Class Locations and Times

St. Clair County
Children First Foundation
1909 Dublin Blvd., Suite B
Belleville, IL 62221
618-235-6192

Classes are held weekly as follows:
Wednesday 6pm-8pm
Thursday 6pm-8pm
Second Friday of the Month 9am-1pm

Madison County
Madison County Kids’ Corner
101 E. Edwardsville Road
Wood River, IL 62095
618-251-6214

Classes are held weekly as follows:
Monday 6pm-8pm
Tuesday 6pm-8pm
First Friday of the Month 9am-1pm

Useful Links

DCFS Home page
Mandated Reporter training page
St. Clair County Circuit Clerk’s office for looking up cases and the free documents
St. Clair County Legal Self-Help Center
Madison County Circuit Clerk
Madison County related legal self-help
Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation
St. Louis University Teen Help Line
SASS – the Teen/Youth Suicide arm of HFS with a 1-800 CARES line

Latest News

2017 Curriculum Addendum available to Licensees after July 1, 2017
Jun 13, 2017
- Updated printed curriculum & DVD’s (IL version includes SB 57 changes).
- Best practices & empirically supported service trends researched & included.
- New content added to video.
- Revised resource section.
- Added: Marital Infidelity, Substance Abuse, Social Media Guidelines, Domestic Violence, Parental Incarceration, Relocation, General Parenting Skills handouts
- New Color Handout “Parent Packet”
- Scripts
- Research Literature, Satisfaction Survey
- Suggestions for incorporating into four-hour time requirement
- Cost with DVD’s (Session I, and Session II)= $150 plus S&H
The Effectiveness of a Parent Education Program For Divorcing Parents
Jan 23, 2017
This article concentrates on the programs for divorcing parents and their effectiveness. The analysis on the rate of divorce, parenting program content, method of content delivery and other subjects concerning divorcing parents are discussed. The results show the Children First program has a significant positive effect on parents’ knowledge of coparenting.

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Kid First/Teen First Divorce & Separation Treatment Manuals
Jun 21, 2012
These manuals are designed to be a group treatment program that includes children of parents that have divorced, have separated and will likely divorce, or have never been married and are now separated. Each program consists of eight core sessions and two optional sessions that discuss various age appropriate topics regarding parental divorce and separation.