Al-Mawadda Association for Family Development launched a series of digital training courses aimed at supporting separated families, through the "Family" platform to enhance family quality of life skills. It aims to raise community awareness of the negative impact of divorce, legal awareness of the obligations associated with it, in addition to directing parents towards the importance of maintaining the quality of the relationship after separation for the sake of the children's future.
Professor Muhammad Ali Al-Radhi, Director of Al-Mawadda Association, explained that these courses come within the framework of the association's ongoing efforts to enhance community awareness about divorce issues and deal with them in wise and thoughtful ways. Al-Samnoudi stressed that the association seeks through these courses to provide the necessary support to separated families to help them overcome the challenges they face after divorce.
The Family Platform provides two training courses within this initiative. The first is entitled "Conscious Divorce", whose topics addressed the types of family problems according to the stage, the factors that affected the increase in the gap between the two parties, and the most prominent causes of increasing this gap, in addition to the conscious mechanisms for making the decision to divorce and legal awareness of the obligations associated with it, and protecting children from the consequences of divorce.
The second session was titled "Relationship with Children after Separation", and focused on psychological preparation before child custody, the child's right to protection and care, responsibility and effective upbringing after separation, the limits of visitation and visitation and their etiquette, and prohibitions related to child protection. Al-Radhi pointed out that the association provides, through the Shamil Center for Implementing Visitation and Visitation Provisions, a safe environment for children of separated families away from police stations. During the first half of 2024, the association provided visitation and visitation services to more than 1,274 families and was able to convert 15% of visitation cases to home visits by mutual consent by bringing viewpoints closer together and reforming. The number of preparation and gradual transition cases for children of separated families reached 369 cases, and the number of sessions reached 2,214, and the success rate of preparation and gradual transition services reached 48%. Al-Radhi concluded that the Family Platform is a non-profit electronic platform that aims to enhance the quality of family life through a set of training programs for the family in several fields that are provided free of charge, starting with choosing a life partner, preparing for marriage, programs in family relations, raising children, marital relations, planning for the family, and others in organizing the relationship after separation. The platform also provides a set of psychological measurement tests for the family and awareness content for all family members through the family community. The platform aims to train more than 19,000 male and female trainees for all family members and segments of society during the year 2024. A group of experts in the field of family, sociology, and psychology contributed to designing the Family Platform programs and measurement tests.