Provides various forms of family law mediation.

-Divorce and separation mediation: Provides couples an opportunity to discuss and reach decisions about custody, parenting plans, visitation, child support, finances, division of assets, etc.

-Relationship coaching: Helps couples experiencing problems improve their relationships.

-Family mediation: Helps parents and children resolve family disputes involving remarriage and step-parenting issues.

- Family Law Clinic: Can prepare and file court paperwork (pleadings and forms) if you meet all of the criteria. See website for details.

Program offers affordable parenting plan mediation sessions for parents who are going through divorce or dissolution, or wish to create or update a formal parenting plan.

Community mediation helps individuals, businesses, neighbors, and families when conflict or disagreements arise. Mediators help parties communicate with understanding, explore solutions, and solve problems. Some conflicts involve neighbor or neighborhood relationships, homeowner association issues, workplace problems, consumer/business disputes, family relationship including separation/divorce or children's issues, money issues, landlord/tenant disputes, land use disputes, and more. Mediation is voluntary, cooperative, and confidential, and mediated by one or two impartial mediators who do not take sides, give legal advice, or impose settlements.

Provides mediators for Deschutes County Justice Court Small Claims Court. Litigants have the opportunity to resolve disputes through mediation before proceeding to trial before a judge. Provides periodic mediator training, workshops, and facilitation services for businesses, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

Focus on Children: Court-required parenting class for separating and divorcing parents, which equips parents with skills for building strong relationships with their children and co-parents. The class addresses custody, parenting time, and the mediation process. Attendance at this class meets court requirements for parent education and mediation orientation.

Custody and Parenting Time Mediations: Mediation is a confidential process in which parents meet with a professional, court-approved mediator to develop a parenting plan that is in the best interests of the children. The parenting plan includes decision-making (custody); parenting time schedules (including routine parenting time, holiday, and vacation); parental rights and responsibilities; and parental guidelines. Parents must first attend Focus on Children prior to participating in mediation.

Family Check-Up (FCU): A brief, parent-centered, strength-based program. FCU consists of three appointments which include meeting with staff to share family information; working on tasks with the child in a video-recorded session; and participating in a feedback session.

Supervised Parenting Time: Offers parents an opportunity for safe and meaningful contact with their children.

Custody Evaluations: Evaluators meet three times with each parent, once with the children, and other contacts as necessary. Evaluators will prepare custody and parenting time reports and recommendation.

The Division of Child Support establishes paternity at the request of fathers or mothers, issues initial child support orders, modifies existing child support orders, enforces existing child support orders, interfaces with the state agency that tracks the collection of child support orders, and answers clients' questions about their cases. The office represents the State of Oregon and not the parent.

The Oregon Child Support Program has mediators throughout Oregon who are able to offer assistance developing parenting plans. A parenting plan is a written agreement between parents. It defines when a child will be with each parent (parenting time) and how decisions about the child will be made. It is used when parents are not living together. Sometimes parents agree about these issues and write their own plans, while others use the help of a mediator or attorney. A parenting plan may also be ordered by a judge after a trial or hearing. Safety Focused Parenting Plans are also available.

Conducts custody investigations. Also provides links to family law information and resources. Participants of this program are mainly referred by the court. However, anyone can call for marriage and divorce counseling. Post-divorce counseling is also provided by this office as well as mediation regarding custody and custody investigations.