The Florida Association of Collaborative Professionals has created Minimum Standards for Accreditation for the lawyers and mental-health and financial specialists who work in the collaborative law process. “Collaborative attorneys, mental-health professionals, and financial professionals should be specially trained to help their clients resolve disputes in a peaceful, private, and respectful manner,” the association said in a press release. The standards will help promote that goal, and those who complete the training will get a special badge recognizing the achievement. For more information about the program, go to the FACP website and click on the Credentialing tab.
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The Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals is accepting applications for its second Leadership Institute, which offers year-long training beginning in June, for collaborative law professionals.
The application deadline is January 25, and information and the application can be found here. Those who want to participate must be nominated by their practice group.
The training teaches skills to advance the collaborative practice community, builds connections with other local, state, and national leaders in the practice area, and promotes exchanging ideas on improving the collaborative community.
“The goal of the institute is to continue to develop and nourish collaborative leaders around the state who will enrich and sustain and grow their local practice groups and our statewide organization and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals,” said FACP President Elaine Silver. “We are very focused on individual growth and creating those leaders who then can sup