KIDS FIRST CENTER BOOK:
Kids First: What Kids Want Grown-Ups to Know
​about Separation & Divorce
Authored by Kids First Center, Portland, ME 
Topics Include:
  • What separation feels like to kids
  • Listening to children
  • Telling kids about the separation
  • Steps toward a healthy co-parenting partnership
  • Kids' residence
  • Kids' transitions
  • Holidays and celebrations
  • Parental anger
  • New relationships, new families
  • The legal system - courts, lawyers and kids
  • Schools supporting the co-parenting process
  • One child's perspective - Olivia's story

​Includes actual kids' experiences, in their own words.

Well outlined, positive suggestions and advice for parents and professionals.

TO ORDER:

  • Click here to order directly from our publisher
  • Click here to order from Barnes & Noble
  • Pick one up at the Kids First Center, 
    222 St. John Street, Suite 101, Portland, ME
  • Purchase from your local bookstore

Comments on our book:

"Kids have a lot to say and we have collected a wealth of helpful tips and advice based upon years of kids sharing what they'd like to tell their parents, teachers, counselors, therapists, and their parents' attorneys about what this process of divorce and separation feels like to them. And now we would like to share this message with you."
- Peg Libby, former Executive Director, Kids First Center of Portland, ME 
"Kids First is an honest and practical guide to providing emotional and physical well-being to children whose world is rocked by divorce. This book is preventive medicine for all divorcing parents."
- Christiane Northrup, MD,  Author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom  (Bantam, 2005)
"This book is a gold mine of information for separating parents and for the professionals who serve parents and their children. It will surely help lower inter-parental conflict and make life better for thousands of children affected by this issue."
- Felicity Myers, LCSW

Other Resources:

Our staff at Kids First maintains an extensive list of agencies and organizations across the state of Maine that may be able to help you with an issue arising from or contributing to your separation and divorce:

  • Abuse
  • Anger management
  • Counseling centers
  • Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning families
  • Substance abuse
  • Crisis services
  • Many other divorce-related services
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Contact the Center if you would like a referral for services in any of these areas.