What is Smile?
SMILE - Start Making It Livable for Everyone - is an educational program for separating or divorced parents with children under the age of eighteen. This program, along with all of the Friend of the Court (FOC) programs, are held on the Third Floor of the Friend of the Court Office.
Goals
The goals of the SMILE program are:
- To provide information to help parents better understand the effects of divorce.
- To help parents understand the needs of their children.
- To promote children's healthy adjustment to divorce.
The information that will be provided to you at the SMILE program presentation has been drawn from the experience of the developers of the SMILE program, and other professionals in the field of divorce.
Each year over one million marriages end in divorce in the United States. When divorce happens, some people feel alone and wonder how anyone else lived through it. SMILE will provide information about the effects of divorce and what parents can do to make the divorce situation livable.