Canadian Co-Parenting Centre - Calgary

Name: Canadian Co-Parenting Centre - Calgary
Address: 4603 Varsity Dr NW #202, Calgary, AB T3A 2V7, Canada, A, 3, Canada

1/5 ★ based on 8 reviews

About Canadian Co-Parenting Centre

Canadian Co-Parenting Centres are an affiliation of not-for-profit agencies that are committed to helping families get through the transition of separation and divorce with as little conflict as possible by providing customized services that are affordable and effective.

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Email: [email protected]

Phone: 403-238-6063

Address: #202, 4603 Varsity Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T3A 2V7

Mission & Vision

While there are numerous not-for-profit agencies providing affordable counselling services to individuals, to couples, and to families struggling to stay together, there is generally a dearth of similar agencies serving the unique needs of families where the parents have chosen to separate and divorce.

And, while governments, generally through the courts, provide some services at no charge, or at an affordable rate, those services are not comprehensive, there is limited availability, and specific criteria leave many families unable to qualify.

The Canadian Co-Parenting Centres are committed to filling those gaps.

Our Mission

The Canadian Co-Parenting Centres are committed to helping families get through the transition of separation and divorce with as little conflict as possible by providing customized services that are affordable and effective.

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Our Goal

Our goal is to be as reputable as the Mayo Clinic, and as prolific as McDonald's restaurants.

We aim to provide services that not only rival what is available from private practitioners, but services that exceed them.

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Our Vision

Our vision is of a society with a fundamentally different approach to the process of separation and divorce. The social norm will be to shift seamlessly from marriage counselling to a non-adversarial process for restructuring the family, such as parenting coordination or team supported divorce.

Instead of spending thousands of dollars and years of their lives, embroiled in an adversarial legal process, families will grieve the loss and peacefully move forward.

Purpose

While our primary purpose is to serve individual families, we have a broader purpose that includes:

to educate parents, various professionals, and the public at large about the alternatives to litigation and the tremendous benefits that they offer.
to interface with existing community agencies, government departments, distress lines, and public information services to ensure that no families fall through the cracks, unaware that interventions that will help them are available.
to foster the development of co-parenting coordination and team supported divorce by providing an information clearing house.
to provide practicum training opportunities for mediators, counsellors, co-parenting coordinators, and collaborative divorce professionals.
to provide an exemplary model for other agencies in Canada and for potential replication in other countries.

Board of Directors

We are currently looking for some exceptional and/or highly motivated people to be board members. If you know of an experienced judge, lawyer, mental health professional, media professional, or business executive, who might be interested in this initiative, please have them contact us.

If you yourself want to be involved, even if you have no related qualifications or experience, please contact us as well.

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Our current board is as follows:

President: Brad James

Vice-president: Carrie Burks

Secretary/Treasurer: Eric Persson

General: Sean Bodie

Our Volunteers

Canadian Co-Parenting Centres is blessed to have received assistance from the following talented and generous volunteers:

Alexis Magi - legal assistance with small claims action

Alheli Torres - supervision of parenting time

Andy An - enhancement of client management database interface

Arlana Guiler - website organization and navigational structure

Azita Afshamejat - supervision of parenting time

Brad James - board member

Carrie Burks - board member

Dana Nicole - website update

Diane Zordan - counselling, parenting coordination

Eric Persson - board member

Gene Grimm - marketing and graphic design

Joy Alonzo - assistance with clients and office administration

Julliane Twa - assistance with the development of accounting practices

Laurena Cellars - documentation review and parenting time supervision

Lurline Raposo - supervision of parenting time, counselling, parenting coordination

Margo Brown - board member

Mike Sullivan - assistance with upgrading the website

Monique Evans - review of website content and usability

Sean Bodie - board member

Susan Girard - documentation review and development

Tami Miller - review of website and brochures

Tayyaba Sharif - creation of a database for reference material

Thanks very much to each of you.

Contact Canadian Co-Parenting Centre

Address :	4603 Varsity Dr NW #202, Calgary, AB T3A 2V7, Canada
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Postal code :	3
Website :	https://www.coparenting.ca/
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4603 Varsity Dr NW #202, Calgary, AB T3A 2V7, Canada

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C	Chris Hunter on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I agree with these other posts. I changed my name in fear of this guy knowing who I am. Blain is a criminal and a scam artist. I have been with him for years and nothing has been accomplished. He is not qualified to be doing what he is doing. Don't go near this idiot. Get a Lawyer and get one fast.
S	Scott Spackman on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Blain does not know what he is doing. He is not qualified to be handling these cases, and all he does is create chaos and turmoil. He doesn't solve any problems, and is unprofessional. Don't waste your time, money or resources with this company. He has been secretly speaking to my ex-wife for 1.5 years, he calls me "Donald Trump" on joint emails with my ex, he harasses me the entire time I am with my kids, he allows my ex-wife to breach Court Orders with no punishments and he is discriminatory. He is trying to dictate how I use my legal medical cannabis, and allowing my ex-wife to come up with the "guidelines" and "punishments". I will be filling with the Human Rights of Alberta Tribunal because of this. He is the worst thing that has ever happened to my family. My children told him they wanted half the time with me and he refuses to listen - catering to my ex-wife. I found out he is Mormon - just like my ex - they met at a Mormon function. He is in on this with her and her mother - he destroys families. Run, far far away from this man.
M	Michila McKerracher on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ DO NOT SIGN A CONTRACT WITH BLAIN CELLARS! As the other reviewers stated, all Blain will do is cause chaos, stress, and turmoil.He elevates an already high conflict relationship to an entire other level. He will side with one parent and impose devastating consequences on the other parent with no regard for the child. Somehow he has self appointed power to override court orders and take away your parenting time, then, unless both parties agree you cannot disengage from the process. Of course the parent that is getting all these awards of extra parenting time isn’t going to agree to disengage! I cannot believe this man is still in business!! My unfortunate encounter with him was the summer of 2011 and he is still taking advantage of parents that are scrambling for help to co parent! Please join the Facebook group ‘Blain Cellars Awareness’. Hopefully Blain Cellars can be stopped from continuing his destructive work!
S	Sue Calgary on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My family has been involved with this company for three months now - the most volatile, stressful, chaotic three months of our lives. Mr. Cellars does not have the skills or knowledge to analyze high conflict divorce situations, gather the information, and make informative, unbiased decisions that would likely hold up in court, based on his behavior to date. He also does not keep within the parameters that the parties have agreed he can be involved with - but branches out and makes suggestions and decisions that are not his to make. It has been three months of constant e-mails back and forth - "musings" (his word) regarding suggestions, changing his tune in virtually every subsequent e-mail with regards to direction. Example - comments that the goal should be minimal exchanges and preferably at school, then subsequently states that multiple exchanges PER DAY, to benefit only the mother's "bio-parent" time, to occur at her home, should be accommodated. Advises that he agrees and upholds split vacation/holiday time, and then starts playing with the "bio-parent" thing once again, indicating that again only the mother can request additional time, and exchange times need to be revised, within a matter of hours, for her benefit. Refuses to force mother to provide her work schedule and ignores every single request for this information, so that the father can request "bio-parent" time as well. I have had multiple telephone conversations with Mr. Cellars as well. He is evasive and meandering in his conversations. I point blank asked him if he is Mormon, as this could introduce huge bias on his part (the mother is Mormon), and he hesitated very obviously, then finally advised that he is, but "not active". He also only identified, three months after signing on to his services, that he has been speaking with the mother for OVER 1 1/2 YEARS prior . He offers vague promises and then doesn't follow through. Just when you think that something - ANYTHING - is going to be resolved, he starts all over again with different ideas and suggestions. This is not someone who looks at the FACTS and the CURRENT COURT ORDERS and moves forward from there - he is attempting to change and/or inhibit moving forward on equal access based on ridiculous issues such as what family members are "allowed" to text to the children. He ruined our ENTIRE Family Week scheduled parenting time with constant e-mails, doing the usual flip-flopping and not answering my family's direct questions and requests for information, going so far as to suggest that the children's scheduled parenting time with the father should be revised (back to the mother's early), on a moment's notice. I have been trying to understand his payment schedule for two months now. His responses are "it's all on the website". The website is vague and doesn't really identify what the payment schedule COULD be - but from what I am able to gather - he could charge you upwards of thousands of dollars at any time. If this man provided the service he claims he does, and appropriately moved through conflict, gathering information and making unbiased decisions in an appropriate time frame, the issues would already be resolved and an appropriate 50/50 schedule, which is what the children have identified to him they want, would be in place today. He spends an inappropriate amount of time discussing trivial issues, makes statements about various topics and at the same time identifies that he knows nothing about the topic (for example medically prescribed cannabis), and doesn't show any inclination to actually move forward. He assigns "homework" whereby you need to read certain books, and do "research" on topics and provide him with reports. In our case, he is clearly ignoring the fact that the mother is breaching a court order. Conflict in divorce is much better settled if an UNBIASED third party weighs the facts, gathers the information and suggestions from each party, and makes an UNBIASED decision based on the law. Waste of time, waste of money.
S	Sally Jane on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For the sake of my children, I have changed my identity in fear of what Blain will do next. PLEASE listen to the reviews and stay as far away from this man as you can. He will destroy your life and your children's lives by adding soooo much unnecessary stress. When I first met Blain, he was incredibly misleading making me believe he was capable of doing more than he would/could. He claims he has a team, yet when questioned about it he denies it - he is a one man show. He is not a lawyer or a psychologist or a social worker and does not meet the mandated qualifications of court to be practicing note 7 or 8. He did not follow any of our court orders and has made many comments leading me to believe he truly believes he is higher than a judge. He will engage in legal fights with your lawyer and raking up thousands of dollars while sending you and your ex thousands upon thousands of emails never with any solutions. When it comes to his own bill, he will claim he doesn't charge you, or that it is all charity work but then he will sue you for disengaging as per his contract. Blain never focused on our important issues such as my children's safety yet become obsessed over mundane issues creating so much chaos. I encourage you to name search him on facebook, and do as much research prior to signing with any Parent Coordinator. Blain has been part of our lives for a few years now and it has been nothing short of hell!
J	Jennifer Spackman on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Blain Cellars is a scam artist. I highly recommend you read the BBB ratings and really listen to the complaints against him. He then responds in the most pompous and arrogant way; deflecting blame from himself and defending his garbage practices. He has been secretly speaking to my husbands ex-wife, for well over a year, without my husbands knowledge, prior to us agreeing to his services. Although, we were threatened with Court applications from his ex-wife should we not comply with this demand. Gee, I wonder why??? Couldn't be because they're both Mormons and met at a Mormon function (my husband left the faith years ago) and they're in on this together! He is unprofessional and unqualified to handle high conflict custody issues, and just recently, has breached my and my husbands Human Rights in regards to discriminating against us for our use of legal, prescribed, medicinal cannabis. Halting the schedule changes, for my husbands ex wife, unless my husband agrees to HER guidelines and punishments - overriding what a doctor has prescribed. I have Multiple Sclerosis and they are trying to dictate how I take my medicine. Blain is biased and can't make any decisions - he causes chaos and stress and never solves any issues. Do not take your family to this company, it will completely reverse any progress you may have had. He sent my husband an email in October of 2017, because my husband was upset that he was being threatened with Lawyers if he didn't sign up with Blain - he was out of work at the time and couldn't afford it - but Blain didn't care. He sent email after email saying things like "You will substantially benefit" if you sign up with me. Just to coerce us into the contract that we didn't want to be in. Blain is allowing my husbands ex to directly breach FILED Court Orders, and does not punish her, just tells my husband to basically "deal with it". He tells my husband that he, nor myself, are allowed to text his son (11) and say we miss him or love him or show him any photos of ANYTHING that has to do with his life at our house - pets, fish having babies, etc - he refuses to compel my husbands ex wife to reveal her working schedule so that my husband can have his 3 children while she is working Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat for 5-6 hours at a time, yet demands that she get "bio-parent" time while my husband is at work. He emailed my husband and told him "parent-to-parent transfers should be avoided and transfers should take place at the school", and now that we've signed on, he's now telling my husband that he has to drop the kids off at her house and pick them up, daily. This is a 5 year long high conflict situation where transfers have been a huge problem, and he is trying to force my husband to do DAILY transfers now, bouncing the kids back and forth multiple times a day. Blain is NOT qualified for this role and he is NOT a good person. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY - HE IS A SCAM ARTIST! He is 100% going to deflect any and all blame to myself and my husband, as he does with all the others who complain about him.
D	Danielle on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Please, please listen to the reviews posted. The 4 months that I was in contact with Canadian Co-Parenting Centre and Blain Cellars were some of the most stressful I have had since the court process started 4 years ago. There are endless emails, some minutes apart, often they are contradictory. The sheer volume is overwhelming and they jump topics so it is very easy to feel lost. Questions are met with hostility and accusations. Agreements have no end date and are designed to go on until children reach adulthood. Do not sign any agreements with this company!
L	Lisa James on Google ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Blain Cellars is absolutely the worst!!! He will not follow court orders, will insist on thousands of emails back and forth between you and your ex. He creates a hostile environment between each party and thrives on chaos and threats. His contract is repulsive with no end date, no way to exit and has false claim of being a mental health professional which he is not. In fact Blain has very little education, and nothing related to family law. Blain Cellars claims to have a team of professionals, yet is a one man show. He tried to counsel my children until I shut that down upon learning he possibly had a criminal record. I asked 4 times for a vulnerability sector check and criminal background check which he refused after which time I realized he was not a psychologist spite what he represented himself as being. Blain is EXTREMELY biased. He refuses to call me back, yet calls my ex constantly, and as of lately he has been harassing my lawyer without including me in emails and without consent. The man is unethical, and VERY unprofessional. I hired Blain to do a parenting plan which he said he would do, then refused claiming he can not do them. Blain does not act in the best interest of the children, in fact he put my children in the middle of our divorce inappropriately and went against court orders that were placed to protect my children. STAY AWAY FROM THIS MAN AND THIS COMPANY!!!!!!!!