President's Report

Dear OACP Members & Friends,

We hope that this email finds you well.  Can you believe we are already gearing up for the end of the season and summer break?  Here are some events we are looking forward to, as well as some of the most recent updates from the OACP Board. 

·       2025 Annual Conference with Christina McGhee – Extension on Early Bird Registration, May 2, 2025.

The OACP board has approved an extension for early bird registration through the end of March.  If you haven’t already signed up, please make sure to register before March 31 for a $25 discount.  You don’t have to be a member to receive the discount.  Please share this invitation to the 2025 Annual Conference with your professional groups and colleagues. 6 CE credits offered for this event.

This year, the OACP is proud to present Christina McGhee, author of Raising Mentally Strong Kids and Parenting Apart as our speaker and trainer for the 2025 Annual Conference.  Christina will provide our multidisciplinary group of family law professionals with a child-focused training on "Transforming Conflict into Cooperation: Creative tools for using a child-centered approach with separated and divorced parents." 

Are you a professional who wants to change divorce for the better?  Then you will benefit from this training.  

What Will I Learn?

-Strategies that can shift perspectives and put children in the center (not the middle) of the divorce.

-Discover new ways to guide your clients towards rebuilding their families for long-term success.

-Add value to your practice and revolutionize the way you work with your clients.

The presentation will include a showing of the film Split Up the Teen Years, a film about divorce and its long-term impact on children.  This training offers a unique opportunity that combines a film screening with training from a renowned co-parenting specialist.  We hope that you will not pass up this opportunity.  

Sign up here.

-            NEW Student Ticket! -- The OACP is now offering a half-priced student ticket.  Please share this information with students and instructors.  $150 (through March 31 with early bird discount); $162.50 (after March 31).

·       Split, the Early Years – Virtual Viewing – with Viewing Parties in NE Portland, Lake Oswego & Bend $25/person.

Through generous support of Our Family Wizard, Portland Collaborative Divorce, My Pleadings, Bridges Collaborative Divorce Solutions, and Gearing, Rackner & McGrath, and in anticipation of our 2025 Annual Conference with Christina McGhee, the OACP will be hosting an exclusive virtual showing of Split, The Early Years on April 9, 2025, from 6:30-7:30pm. The film will be followed by a 30-minute Q & A hosted by Christina McGhee, a divorce and parenting expert, and educational director and author, along with Ellen Bruno, producer of Split and Split Up.  

If you’ve ever wondered how kids really feel about divorce, this event is for you!  Split the Early Years is a profoundly insightful documentary about the long-term effects of divorce on children. The film is for teens, parents, and the many professionals who serve them.

THIS EVENT WILL HELP YOU:

• Better understand the short and long-term effects of divorce on children
• Use this understanding to guide co-parents to make more skillful choices
• Discover how to use the SPLIT films and other resources in different practice settings

"A film that should be required viewing for all divorce professionals. It is hard to imagine any film having a greater impact on the world of divorce.”

You can choose to view on your own or join a viewing party in your local area.  We will be hosting viewing parties in Bend, Lake Oswego, and NE Portland.  If you are interested in joining one of these viewing parties, please RSVP after purchasing your ticket to the person in charge of that area's viewing party for more detailed instructions:

o   Bend, OR, Alderwood Legal, PC located inside the Work Collective, 2900 NW Clearwater Drive, Bend, Oregon 97703  – RSVP to Christine Bacon.  Wine and light hors d’oeuvres will be served beginning at 5:30pm.

o   NE Portland, 11 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Suite 403.  – RSVP to Jo Posey

o   Lake Oswego, TBD – RSVP to Adrienne Garcia

·       NOW Earn CLE Credits for ALL Educational Meetings (beginning 2025)

The OACP will now be offering all members and friends free CLE credit for attending our Educational meetings in 2025 and beyond!  If you attend a live viewing of an educational meeting, and you are interested in gaining CLE credit, please send an email to the OACP Admin with your request and bar number. 

If you are a Full Member with the OACP, you can also earn CLE credit by viewing previously recorded educational meetings.  Recorded educational meetings can be found on the Membership Portal under “Archived Monthly Educational Meetings.”  Instructions for adding courses to your transcript can be found there as well course materials and certificates of completion.

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