1. It all started with…
12 september 2017

2. The challenge How can we prevent child consequences of divorces?
Idea brought up by Youth Protection who faces these consequences for children daily
Excisting programmes were not so successful, The compulsory parenting plan and the divorce covenant offer insufficient grief.
The legal procedures for divorce are counterproductive, because they strengthen the contradictions and conflicts earlier than diminish
Everybody agrees that we must invest in preventive interventions

3. Divorce if parents do not represent if parents have serious
the child perspective
if parents have serious
conflicts
if parents use their child in their mutual struggle
adversely affects the mental health of their child
if parents no longer occupy
their parent positions

4. Some numbers
Legal divorces (2014): Legal divorces with children involved: Minor children involved: People go apart with children involved: Children who faces divorces: Children who face consequences of a fight divorce: Children really suffer from the negative consequences: 3.500

5. Problems for children Loyalty conflict School absence
Negative school results
Psychological problems
Agressive and criminal behaviour
Child abuse

6. € 117.000 Jenny suddenly leaves
Return home after 3 weeks, confused and neglected
After heavy fights Dirk leaves with the childern and go to his parents
Dirk requests for divorce
Jenny gets more and more confused, refuses help and build up debts
The judge assigns the care of the children to Jenny. She can’t handle the situation and neglects the children
Childcare visits the family more often. Finally: under supervision and temporary foster care
Multi-problem €

7. The idea: “Besluit met muisjes”
We cannot overcome it 100%  but…
can we at least prevent it as much as possible
reducing unnecessary claim on legal procedures (and their costs)

8. A broad partnership to invest in prevention
We started with a Social Cost Benefit Analysis (MKBA) to understand:
- the extent of the costs of divorce and
- the costs involved
- who will bear these costs
Based on these MKBA we could build a partnership to invest in prevention!
Total costs a year on fight divorces in NL: €

9. Partnership Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport Ministry of Justice
Municipalities: Zaanstad, Apeldoorn, Amersfoort, Amsterdam, Winterswijk, Berkelland, Oostgelre, Aalten, Hengelo, Kapelle, Schouwen-Duiveland, Tholen, Borsele, Goes, Reimerswaal, Noord-Beveland
Al kind of partners like: Dutch Association for Gynecology, obstetricians, Child care association, youth health care, child ombudsman, Dutch Youth Institute, General practitioners,…

10. Two-year programme Invest in preventative interventions
Monitor the effect and impact of these intenventions: succesfull or not
Enhance methods and interventions that are succefull and scale up
Hands on support for municipalities
Test the added value of online tooling
Kick-off: 27 september 2017

11. One of the instruments: ‘Besluit met muisjes’
First name: birth plan!
Support partners/ parents to make good and robust agreements about raising their child.
These arrangements can help parents in the time they are together, but certainly in the unforeseen situation, that the parents break up/ divorce.
Arrangements may be guiding in the initial stage of a divorce and may also work preventively on the occurrence of such problems
This arrangements prevent parents who divorce both from entering the blank arena of the parent plan without a common child perspective. This prior-known and common direction gives no guarantees, but makes the outcome more predictable and thus less threatening for the healthy and safe development of the affected child.

12. Based on proven method and technology

13. Prototyping Briefing document (intake, co-working space, birth plan)
Q4 2017
Build the prototype
Q1 2018
Test the prototype
Q2 2018
Make the business model en build the product
Q3&4 2018

14. Briefing document Intake:
Containing questions to parents with the intention of reflecting on raising children or childcare agreements.
Co-working space:
In addition, the focus on the difficult subjects that always play when there is a divorce. For example
- School choice
- Distribution care
- Family
- Move
- Financial consequences
- ….
Concept Birth plan