Nebraska Co-Parenting Foundations

Course purpose, education-only boundaries, Nebraska Parenting Act framework, and the emotional impact of separation or divorce on children.

• Understand that the course is educational and not legal advice, therapy, or custody evaluation.
• Recognize the Nebraska Parenting Act framework (Neb. Rev. Stat. §§43-2920 through 43-2943) and what it requires of parents in covered cases.
• Recognize that children may experience family transition as a loss of routine, security, and predictability.
• Identify adult behaviors that reduce a child's exposure to conflict.

Daily parenting functions, responsibilities across two homes, and the continuing parental role after separation under the Nebraska Parenting Act.

• Identify core parenting functions such as safety, routine, supervision, health, education, and emotional support.
• Separate adult relationship conflict from ongoing parental responsibility.
• Use child-centered questions when making parenting-time decisions.
• Recognize that under the Nebraska Parenting Act (§43-2923), both parents' active involvement serves the child's best interests unless safety concerns require otherwise.

Developmental stages, common child reactions, grief, loyalty conflicts, and age-appropriate support after separation.

• Recognize that children of different ages express stress in different ways.
• Avoid using children as messengers, confidants, or witnesses to adult disputes.
• Choose reassurance and routines that fit the child's developmental needs.
• Recognize grief and adjustment as normal responses that children need adult support to process.

Parenting-plan basics under the Nebraska Parenting Act, predictable schedules, exchange routines, access to information, and transition planning.

• Understand the purpose of a Nebraska Parenting Plan under Neb. Rev. Stat. §43-2929.
• Identify neutral, child-safe practices for exchanges between homes.
• Recognize that specific, child-centered plans reduce repeated conflict and help children know what to expect.

Lower-conflict communication, stress regulation, mediation, and Specialized Alternative Dispute Resolution (SADR) under §43-2929 of the Nebraska Parenting Act.

• Use brief, factual, child-focused communication.
• Identify escalation patterns and choose lower-conflict alternatives.
• Understand Nebraska mediation and SADR (Neb. Rev. Stat. §43-2929) as dispute-resolution tools and when a court may order them.
• Apply at least one stress-regulation strategy before responding to a high-conflict message.

Safety-aware parenting plans, domestic intimate partner abuse (DIPA) recognition under §43-2932, safe communication, and emergency boundaries.

• Recognize indicators of domestic intimate partner abuse (DIPA) and coercive control that may make ordinary co-parenting tools unsafe.
• Identify safe-transition and communication practices for higher-risk situations.
• Know when to use emergency, legal, advocacy, or court resources instead of standard co-parenting guidance.
• Understand that §43-2932 of the Nebraska Parenting Act provides specific protections and SADR exemptions in DIPA situations.

Child abuse and neglect awareness, unresolved conflict, referrals, reporting boundaries, Nebraska-specific community resources, and the §43-2933 best interests standards.

• Identify warning signs that require professional, court, hotline, or emergency resources.
• Understand that parent education does not investigate or adjudicate abuse allegations.
• Recognize the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) as the child protective agency.
• Create a resource plan for legal, safety, mental-health, and parenting support.

Final review of all Nebraska Parenting Act objectives, course evaluation, personal resource plan, certificate fields, pass threshold, and completion rules.

• Review key child-centered concepts from all seven prior modules.
• Complete a personal resource and follow-through plan with at least two Nebraska-specific contacts.
• Understand that a passing score of 80% or higher on the knowledge checks is required for certificate issuance.
• Understand certificate issuance and verification after approval and course completion.