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2025 Annual CCE + IPV Bundle

2025 Annual CCE + IPV Bundle

Bundle and Save on your 12.0 Annual Update Requirement!

2025 Update Bundles feat: Love, Lange, Mayberry and more

Our 2025 Annual Update CCE + IPV bundle is now hosted at our Learning Portal site: portal.sfrankelgroup.com

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These courses, released in late 2025, contain our full, 12.0 hour, Judicial Council of Council approved, annual update for child custody professionals. Featuring a well-respected and expert line-up of speakers, learn the latest in the custody evaluation field from 2024 through the course's release. Legal and Judicial perspectives will help professionals understand another point of view, resist/refuse dynamics are covered, and a best practice booster is covered. Additionally, learn the latest about power dynamics and their influence on IPV, legal changes and safety challenges.

Bundle Contains:

Christy Bradshaw Schmidt, LPC, MA

Christy Bradshaw 

Christy Bradshaw Schmidt, LPC, is a seasoned mental health professional and expert consultant in family law based in Texas. Following six years of service with Dallas County Family Court Services, she launched her private practice in 2006, specializing in contested child custody evaluations, adoption evaluations, and expert consultation statewide.

Over the course of her career, Ms. Bradshaw Schmidt has completed more than 600 comprehensive child custody evaluations. Her work is recognized for its depth, precision, and practical recommendations offered with the intention of helping high-conflict families restructure their lives after divorce. Her evaluations have played a pivotal role in guiding family courts, attorneys, and families toward healthier post-separation dynamics.

In addition to evaluation services, Ms. Bradshaw Schmidt provides expert consultation and testimony in complex family law matters, including relocation, issues related to children under age three, and Parent-Child Contact Problems. She regularly conducts work product reviews of other evaluations and mental health services in court-connected cases and serves as a strategic advisor to attorneys navigating challenging family litigation. Ms. Bradshaw Schmidt is the President-Elect of the Texas Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), with her presidency commencing in the fall of 2026. She is also an active member of North Texas Families in Transition, the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association, and the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. Throughout her career, she has remained deeply committed to mentoring emerging professionals working with court-involved families, emphasizing ethics, best practices, and thoughtful collaboration.

Her policy and advocacy work has made a meaningful impact on Texas family law. As the Mental Health Liaison to the Family Law Foundation, she contributed to the development and passage of critical statutes—including those governing child custody and adoption evaluations, parenting coordination/facilitation, and the expert testimony of therapists and mental health professionals. She remains actively engaged in legislative efforts aimed at strengthening practices that protect and support Texas families.

Learn more at her website.

Her CV can be found here

Christy Bradshaw Schmidt's Courses:

All of Christy's Courses are now hosted on our Learning Portal portal.sfrankelgroup.com. Visit her faculty page there to see her full list of courses!

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Custody Evaluations 101 Series Bundle

Custody Evaluations 101: An 8-Course, 40-CE Training Series

Lori Love, Ph.D.

Are you looking to become a certified Child Custody Evaluator/Parenting Plan Evaluator? 

One of the first requirements to certification in California (and other jurisdictions) is to complete a certified 40-hour CE training course such as this training series! Custody Evaluations 101 is a 40-hour comprehensive series by Lori A. Love, Ph.D., designed to provide the participant with the knowledge to perform custody evaluations. Each course is worth 5.0 CE Credits, and teaches necessary APA standards, AFCC guidelines, and court rules.

Now featuring an updated "Rules, Guidelines and Procedures" course which reflects changes in guidelines seen through the end of 2024!

Want to know more about the requirements to get certified as a Child Custody Evaluator/Parenting Plan Evaluator? Visit Our Info Page >

Our Parenting Plan Evaluation/Child Custody Evaluation 101 Series, including its bundle options, is now hosted on our Learning Portal: portal.sfrankelgroup.com

Visit the CE101 Series Hub

Have questions about this change? Learn more about the transition here >

To receive your CE Certificate of Completion for an on-demand course on our Learning Portal Site, please follow these steps:

  1. Create an account on our Learning Portal (or login)  and enroll for the nest course(s) of your choosing.
  2. View the online course to find your handouts, course details, and videos, via your Dashboard.
  3. Once you have marked every lesson within the course as complete, your CE Certificate will automatically become available from Your Account -> Certificates!

These steps help to ensure the quality and integrity of your learning experience by complying with JCC and other regulations.

Please note that our Learning Portal and this site (our classic site) use different login accounts, though both sites are run by the same staff at the Steve Frankel Group. 

Information: Becoming a Custody Evaluator

Interested in becoming a Custody Evaluator? Start with your approved 40-CE training.

Complete 40-hours of approved training. Our child custody 101 series fulfills this qualification for California. While it fulfills requirements in many other states/jurisdictions, if you are not located in California, we recommend checking with your local jurisdiction to verify CE carryover.

Completed your 40-hour Training and ready for your next steps?

  1.       Fill out form FL-326
  2.       Complete your supervised evaluations. Find a mentor/supervisor by:
    1.       Joining your local chapter of the AFCC, so you can find other members and groups in your area
    2.       Reaching out to the official California AFCC Mentors
  3.       Can’t find a supervisor?
    1.       Some jurisdictions will allow you to get an exception to the supervision requirement by offering to complete your initial evaluations for free/pro-bono,
  4.       After becoming an Evaluator, keep your CCE credentials up to date by ensuring you complete your annual update requirements!

To read the full requirements, read the California Rules of Court Rule 5.225.

Complete the 16-hour IPV Requitement

The 40 hours training series satisfies the 40-hour CE training requirement defined in Rule of court 5.225. The 16 hour CE IPV requirement is a separate requirement in addition to the 40 hours, defined in Rule of court 5.230 (and mentioned in rule of court 5.225). 

According to the California Rules of Courst, any of SFG's courses specifically on the topic of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)/Domestic Violence (DV) can be applied to this requirement. 

These are our currently available IPV/DV courses:

Not located in California?

While rules throughout the United States and Canada for the registration of a Custody Evaluation are similar, the specifics do change between jurisdictions. If you are in another state or are outside the United States, please reach out to your local AFCC chapter and read the Rules of Court of your jurisdiction to find details on completing your certification as a Custody Evaluator.

IPV and CCEs/PPEs - Bundle

IPV/Domestic Violence and CCEs/PPEs  - Bundle

3 Courses - Bundle and Save!

Peachey, Pelc and Rempel

These courses, released in 2025, all touch on how to deal with IPV/DV in the context of Custody Evaluations. Each of these presenters are experts in their presented subject-matter, and provide new and insightful information.

Featuring:

  • "The Impact of IPV on PPEs/CCEs" presented by Stefanie Peachey.
  • "Assessing Risk of Child Abuse and DV" presented by Robert Pelc.
  • "Behind the Screens: Understanding the Use of Cybercrime in Domestic Violence" presented by Susan Rempel.

The more you buy, the more you save!
Purchase two or more of these courses in the same transaction and receive these discounts:

  • 2 courses: 20% discount
  • 3 courses: 30% discount

You may select one or more courses by clicking on the appropriate checkboxes below.

*Note: This bundle already includes its own discounting. To take advantage of an occasional separate promotional offer for courses within the bundle, simply purchase one course at a time. Otherwise, the bundle discount will automatically apply and replace any other promo code used.

 

Standard Format Courses

These courses are in the standard course format - with Dr. Paulsen giving the conceptual background, theoretical practice and examples of practical applications.

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Leslie Drozd, Ph.D.

Leslie Drozd 

Leslie Drozd, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and marriage, family, and child therapist and works clinically with families in the various stages of divorce including coparenting therapy, family therapy, reunification therapy, and parent coordination. 

She has been a child custody evaluator for over 32 years, trains other evaluators, serves as a consultant to attorneys, and as a testifying expert in family law matters. She helped write the Association of Family Conciliation Courts Model Standards for conducting child custody evaluations (2006) and guidelines for parenting plan evaluations involving allegations of domestic violence (2016).

Dr. Drozd is currently on the board of directors of the Association of Family and Conciliation (AFCC) and Overcoming Barriers; and she is an associate member of the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Committee.

She was the founding editor of the peer-reviewed international Journal of Child Custody (2004-2013) and is currently on AFCC's editorial board for Family Court Review. She has taught professionals and published in peer-reviewed journals on parent-child contact problems and resist-refuse cases. She has co-edited books and book chapters on domestic violence in child custody cases, relocation, psychological testing, child sexual abuse, treatment of trauma, alienation, step-up parenting plans, and family therapy with families in which a child resists or refuses contact including a National Council of Juvenile Court Judges' bench book on Navigating Domestic Violence in Child Custody Cases (2006), Professional Resource Press Book, Parenting Plan & Child Custody Evaluations: Using Decision Trees to Increase Evaluator Competence & Avoid Preventable Errors (2013) and Oxford University Press books, Parenting Evaluations: Applied Research for Family Court (2012 & 2016).

She received AFCC’s highest honor for distinguished service, the John E. Van Duzer award, in 2013.

Learn more at her website.

Her CV can be found here

Dr. Drozd's Courses:

All of Dr. Drozd's Courses are now hosted on our Learning Portal portal.sfrankelgroup.com. Visit her faculty page there to see her full list of courses!

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