Our Services

Mediation is an alternative way of resolving disputes between couples or parents when their relationship has broken down. The mediator may help you reach your own agreement about issues such as children, maintenance and property.

We promote a humanistic approach to empower clients to develop a stronger, healthier sense of self, as well as to understand their feelings to help gain a sense of meaning in life.

Parents need valuable information and ethical guidance from skilled professionals to reduce the risk factors and conflict impact of separation on their children early in the stages of the “breakup”.

• MNF provides a triage system that aims to provide Strategies and Creative Solutions for parents with families and professionals assisting with the separation or divorce, legal process, family mediation, parenting plan agreements, access and supervised contact, overall court support through this process.
• The primary focus of MNF in high conflict custody disputes involving Parental Alienation is to provide co-parent education and re-unification solutions to BOTH parents, and children, to reconnect or stay connected, during and after a high conflict separation or divorce. On-going conflict erodes effective parenting, which in turn contributes to children’s emotional and behavioural problems.

Parenting Plans are drafted Accredited Mediators and/or Social Workers. The best interest of the minor child is paramount.

The process includes endorsement with the Family Advocate’s Office and in most cases Children’s Court within the jurisdiction.

Our Mediators and Social Workers have been working closely with Children’s Court more in particular Randfontein, Krugersdorp, Kagiso, Roodepoort, Booysens, Johannesburg, Randburg, Pretoria and Klerksdorp.

A Parenting Plan is a legal document and constitutes a binding contract between two parents in as far as the best interest of the minor child. When considering separation it is recommended to seek the assistance of a qualified professional to complete the Parenting Plan whereas in Divorce matters it is compulsory to have a signed agreement within the family unit. A Parenting Plan will include CARE and CONTACT of a Minor child.

A duly qualified Mediator, Maintenance Expert and/or, Financial Planner will assist you in formulating a affordable maintenance agreement. The process will include full financial disclosure incorporating both parents’ income and expense and taking the child’s expense into consideration.

Maintenance Calculations are calculated according to the affordability of both parents.

Families have the option to incorporate the maintenance within the scope of the Parenting Plan.

A professional Mediator with a minimal legal background of not less than 10 years will assist you in reaching an amicable settlement when considering Divorce.

The process could be finalized in a minimal time of not less than 4 weeks, depending on the Regional Court’s available trial roll.

MNF will assist the parties in drafting the Divorce Summons, Settlement Agreement and Parenting Plan.

Further services include Family Advocate Endorsement, Filing and Applying for a date in the Regional Court.

Parties to Divorce Proceedings will be offered an all-inclusive fee from the onset of Mediation to Collecting the Decree of Divorce. 

It has not been uncommon to work with parents who through separation and divorce have found this to be a life-shattering experience; they report the loneliness of the situation. During this crisis time, everything they care about including the relationship with their children, their financial status, ability to work and their health are put at risk through prolonged proceedings. Therefore counselling and coaching is a vital intervention.

MNF supports and motivates overwhelmed parents who learn to lead and love their families, so their relationship is lasting, fulfilling, and meaningful in their children’s lives.

Becoming a single parent requires significant adjustment. They need to separate from their partner whilst maintaining a relationship with their children. Sometimes parenting skills need to be modified to the new circumstances. At times all parents need extra support tailored to their individual situations.

We focus on the dads and moms as men and women, not just in their roles as parents.

We are able to provide support, referrals, and other resources for issues outside of parenting.

Our Parenting Classes are practical, to the point; goal orientated and has a clear purpose of value to you and your family.

To meet the needs of parents MNF provides local service in terms of a bespoke course. The course content is as follows:

• YOU – self-assessment and self-care
• Family Background (genogram and family)
• Parenting Awareness (Role of a parent, roles of fatherhood)
• Parenting styles- each parent to know and understand their individual parenting style, the impact on their parenting and children.
• The Family (family canvass model, support structure) – information regarding co-parenting and the negative impact of child alienation.
• Parental Development (communication, learning styles, how we raise our children, role modelling) – Parents to have the understanding, knowledge, and skills to mentor their children.
• Child Development (milestones, the hierarchy of needs
• Discipline, not punishment (ruling, questions, alternatives)
• Future Plans (house rules, family meetings, parent’s rules, children’s rules)
• Blogs and further reading

The aim is to offer parents a safe and comfortable environment to open up about their issues and concerns, to seek advice, and support them to be more proactively involved in their family lives.

Evidence has shown that parenting support is beneficial to a child’s school attainment, attendance, and general social awareness.

We believe in a task cantered model of intervention, to produce a change as quickly as possible in an effective manner. This pragmatic approach focuses on the completion of tasks that will directly impact the self-development of the parent, and empower them to make meaningful decisions, in their best interest and in the interest of the best outcome for the child and the family.

“Co-parenting is a parenting relationship in which two parents of a child who is not romantically involved but still assumes joint responsibility for the upbringing of their child”

Successful co-parenting means that your own emotions—any anger, resentment, or hurt—must take a back seat; it is about the needs of your child/children. Co-parenting is not about your feelings or those of your ex, it is about your child’s happiness, stability, and future well-being.

In co-parenting, parents choose to develop and implement a parenting plan agreement and protocol that is in the best interest of the child’s holistic and psychosocial development. The benefits of co-parenting are stability in the family relationship; limited prettification (where the child feels the strong need to take care of his/her parents’ feelings and social lives; solid relationships with both parents and, limited splitting in the relationship.)

Vital components of co-parenting:

• On-going communication between the parents
• trouble-shooting in times of conflict
• mutual responsibility is taken each parent
• Parents to respect the child/children’s right to a relationship with both parents.

It is vital that there be a strong Parenting Plan Agreement in place, which can be done with the help of a mediator, or other qualified professional to ensure that issues such as care, contact, discipline, decision-making, ongoing communication, shared schedules, emergency preparation, and finances are clearly worked out and agreed upon both parents.

Social services are central to creating a caring, inclusive, and productive society. MNF believes that this means seeing the person at the very heart of management and delivery of social services.

There is no common definition of social services for all countries. 

Social Services are “person-oriented, designed to respond to human vital needs, generally driven the principle of solidarity, they contribute to safeguarding fundamental rights and human dignity, non-discrimination and to ensuring the creation of equal opportunities for all, enabling individuals to play a significant part in the economic and social life of the society.”

Social Services are identified into two main categories:

Statutory and complementary social security schemes that cover the main risks of life, such as those linked to health, ageing, occupational accidents, unemployment, retirement, and disability;

Other essential services are provided directly to the person. According to the communication, these social services provide support for persons faced with personal challenges or crises, to ensure that they are able to (re)integrate into the labour market and in society as a whole, integrate persons with long-term health or disability problems in society, and social housing.

We can distinguish TWO MAIN TYPES of personal social services.

The first type consists of services that are put in place for groups, supporting the development of the person or their autonomy, and promoting conciliation of work and family life for relatives.

This group includes services such as early childcare that supports children’s development -particularly those children coming from disadvantaged backgrounds or having a disability, and long-term care services that support children and adults with dependency needs due to health impairments, disability, and loss of autonomy. These services are usually regulated and depending on the country they may be universal or means-tested. Both types of services can be provided in a group and can also support conciliation of work and family life, both of them features that are not always relevant for the second type.

The second type of social service consists of personalized support to safeguard the beneficiaries’ fundamental rights and facilitate their social inclusion as they support individual people or families with personal challenges or personal crises, such as debt, unemployment, drug addiction, or family breakdown. Social services included under this second group in the European Commission’s proposal are social work, counselling, advice, coaching, addiction rehabilitation, social rehabilitation, social housing, social inclusion, and crisis centres. In addition to this, we can add child social welfare, working with families in intermediate services to prevent child placements or children’s placements in foster care.

However, some of these services could also be included under group one since they may at least fulfil one of the characteristics; for example, addiction rehabilitation is well regulated and is put in place for groups in many countries. We could say something similar of social work with children and families. In both cases, though, these services do not have conciliation as their primary aim. Their main characteristic is that they respond to individual or specific needs or problems.

Their regulation may depend on the responsibilities of the authority responsible for provision while implementation may take place in an integrated way, which also makes it difficult to establish a typology. For instance, advice or coaching for unemployment may be provided in combination with housing support and child social welfare. This means that the boundaries between the different types of services are blurred most of the time since there has been a recent trend placing a focus on the integrated provision.

When working with children or young people it is essential to gain a clear picture of their wishes, thoughts, and feelings. It is good practice to ask the child or young person which practitioner they would like to gather this information from them.

• the right of a child or young person to be heard is included in the Children’s Act
• the Children’s Act 38, of 2005 emphasizes the importance of speaking to the child or young person as part of any assessment
• the importance of speaking to a child or young person and gathering their views has been consistently highlighted in lessons learned from serious case reviews.

In too many cases local and national reviews have found:

• a child was not seen frequently enough the professionals involved, nor was asked about their views or feelings
• agencies did not listen to adults who tried to speak on behalf of the child and who had important information to contribute
• parents and carers prevented practitioners from seeing and listening to the child
• practitioners focused too much on the needs of the parents or adults, especially vulnerable adults, and overlooked the implications for the child
• agencies did not interpret their findings well enough to protect the child.

What do we mean ‘the child’s voice’?

This not only refers to what children say directly, but to many other aspects of their presentation. It means seeing their experiences from their point of view.

Why is the child’s voice important?

Child-focused work means children feel listened to, plans are more successful when they are involved and prompt decisions are made about safeguarding when necessary.

What the VOC Practitioner will do:-

 There are many ways to ensure records include a strong sense of what life is like for an individual child at a particular time:

• talk to the child about their life, likes & dislikes, hopes & dreams, worries & fears
  • talking to children is dependent upon their age and level of understanding
  • if children are able to talk there are a variety of ways of hearing their voice through direct work techniques such as ‘signs of safety
  • record what children say in ‘direct quotes’ (e.g.I feel sad/happy/worried when…) as this is more powerful than something interpreted a practitioner
• children must be seen alone as they may be inhibited to talk openly about their experiences the presence of their parent or carer
• consider the location – children may feel less inhibited about speaking if they are in a safe neutral setting
• even if children are too young to speak it is still essential that workers convey a sense of what life is like for them
  • this can be done in a variety of ways – describe their presentation, how others interact with them and how they respond, comment on whether you consider they are functioning at a developmentally appropriate level
• in play therapy children may have means of ‘speaking’ other than verbal speech such as picture cards, drawings, signs, and symbols; be creative
  • encourage children to draw or write about themselves and their lives
  • use a range of ideas; start off non-specific such as ‘draw your favourite food, favourite pop star’ then be more directive such as ‘draw where you live, who lives there, draw a picture of a happy day, a sad day, what do you wish was different, who is special’ etc.
• describe a child’s physical appearance, do they appear thin, pale, dark shadows under their eyes, listless, or do they appear curious, ‘smiley’, active
• observe the interactions between a child and their parents or carers – is there any difference in their interactions with other people
• describe the child’s interactions with professionals
  • what is your hypothesis about this behaviour?
  • does the child appear relaxed, wary, or overly familiar?
  • does the child respond as you would expect a child to respond in that situation?
• ensure you include the views of other significant people in the child’s life who may have contributions to make about the child’s experiences
  • for example, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, neighbours and teachers
  • research has found that these people often had a unique insight into the lives of children yet their views were given less weight than the views of professionals
• include the views of fathers; they may have useful information to share, even if there are concerns about them
• use independent advocates to ascertain children’s views as sometimes they can bring valuable context to children’s experiences
• encourage children to participate in plans drawn up about them – they can do this directly attending meetings or contribute putting something in writing or drawing a picture or giving someone a ‘message’ from them.

 Help-seeking behaviour

Help-seeking behaviour is a fundamental skill for all children. This is something children and young people learn through their early attachment relationships and through their contact with adults over time. It is a developmental skill that is essential for survival and needs support to develop; early experience of adversity, abuse and can have a negative effect.

Practitioners recognizing, responding to, and validating the help-seeking behaviour of children and young people is essential.

Public inquiries, research, inspections, and SCRs have highlighted the way in which children can become invisible to practitioners in their work across the safeguarding continuum. This is despite a legislative framework that makes it clear that children should be fully involved in decisions about their lives and that their views should routinely be sought regarding their own understanding of their circumstances.

Research highlights that there are many barriers for children and young people in asking practitioners for help and to talk about their worries and concerns so they can be addressed.

Children and young people also report that when they do ask for help, they are often not heard or their worries not acted upon. The consequence of this is that a recent report the Children’s Commissioner has found that only 1 in 8 victims of abuse felt able to ask for help.

If children are not responded to appropriately practitioners, their concerns are not listened to or addressed, this is likely to impact their self-esteem and resilience; their short and long-term developmental outcomes; and their ability to seek help about things that are worrying them.

 Resources

 There is a range of tools that can be used to capture the views of a child or young person. There are different tools appropriate for children or young people of different ages, levels of need, or understanding. There are no factors including age, understanding, or level of need that should be a barrier to capturing the views of a child or young person as part of an assessment.

It is recommended that a family assessment be undertaken with adult and child family members. However, if a young person has a level of competence that enables them to understand the assessment process, a family assessment can be undertaken with them without parental consent.

Children or young people should also be given the opportunity to attend and contribute to a ‘team around the family’ type meeting where appropriate. Should they not attend or not wish to attend, their wishes, thoughts, and feelings should still be shared. This can be provided in any format including in written or picture form. Tools that can support the gathering of this information can also be found in this resource. Any work that reflects the voice of the child or young person should also be submitted as an attachment alongside an assessment or review.

The focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy include assessment and treatment of depression, high tension levels, aggression, behavior conduct; The clinical and neurocognitive evaluation is performed on patients after MVA, epileptic seizures, loss of consciousness, blackouts, concussion, and sports-related head injuries or alteration of the level of arousal; Medical negligence matters; Assessments are performed for boarding on medical grounds; The motivation for the appointment of curatorship; Dismissal of an employee based on cognitive, emotional, and personality conduct. Medical negligence matters;

Assessments include Neurocognitive and Neuro-emotional assessments and assessment of behavioral difficulties and personality assessment

Neurocognitive tests are performed to assess a person’s cognitive capacity, in terms of verbal reasoning, processing speed, perceptual reasoning, working memory, visual perceptual functioning, and executive functioning.

Personality tests such as the Rorschach Projective technique and depression and anxiety questionnaires are included in the clinical assessment.

The quantitative EEG is added to assess emotional stability, executive functioning, over and or under arousal which will manifest in either hyperactivity, under arousal, aggression, or emotional instability. The q EEG is a neurocognitive and neuropsychological instrument to validate brain functioning/behavior and is not performed for diagnostic purposes. However, results may be supportive of or correlate with, pre-existing diagnoses and neurocognitive findings.

The q EEG is based on the routine EEG and can be compared to observing light through a prism. The detail is accentuated which cannot be seen with the naked eye on a routine EEG recording and provides information regarding brain functioning and cognition, as compared to a normative or reference database (Thatcher Neuro-Guide).

Some reasons why counseling is so important:

1. Teaches problem-solving skills, such as how to overcome negative beliefs, assumptions, or expectations that are the hallmark of depressed or anxious thinking.
2. Helps people to learn to cope better and develop a more optimistic perspective through taking actions that enable them to feel self-empowered, such as becoming more assertive or taking steps towards life goals in spite of their difficulties, and start to achieve some positive results, they begin to feel genuinely better about themselves as people, which enhances their psychological wellbeing in the long run.
3. Focuses on helping people build strength and protect them psychologically.
4. Teaches people how to calm their autonomic nervous system, which is the foundation for stress management and anxiety reduction.
5. In combination with positive lifestyle changes, including a healthy diet and regular vigorous exercise, has been demonstrated to produce lasting anti-depressant and anti-anxiety effects.

Topics covered are trauma counseling, anger management, confidence building, understanding self-esteem, aggression or assertiveness, understanding anxiety, stress management, and coping skills.

The stages of closure: Forgiveness, Detachment, Letting Go, Closure is different from grief, Understanding that you might not ever understand why.

You can only get closure from yourself.

Therefore counseling is a vital intervention.

Victim-offender mediation (VOM) is a process that provides interested victims (primarily those of property crimes and minor assaults) the opportunity to meet their offenders in a safe and structured setting. The goal is to hold offenders directly accountable while providing important support and assistance to victims. With the assistance of trained mediators, the victims are able to let the offenders know how the crime affected them, receive answers to their questions, and be directly involved in developing a restitution plan that holds the offenders financially accountable for the losses they caused. The offenders are directly responsible for their behavior and therefore must learn the full impact of what they did and develop a plan for making amends, to the degree possible, to the persons they violated. Offenders’ failure to complete the restitution agreement results in further court-imposed consequences. Some VOM programs are called “victim-offender meetings,” “victim-offender reconciliation,” or “victim-offender conferences.”
Victim-offender mediation is one of the clearest expressions of restorative justice, a movement that is receiving a great deal of attention throughout North America and Europe. Current juvenile and criminal justice systems are primarily offender-driven, with a retributive “trail ’em, nail ’em, and jail ’em” perspective that views crime as an offense against the State and offers little help to crime victims.
Restorative justice, however, provides a very different framework for understanding and responding to crime and victimization. Moving beyond the offender-driven focus, restorative justice identifies three clients: individual victims, victimized communities, and offenders. Crime is understood primarily as an offense against people within communities, as opposed to the more abstract legal definition of crime as a violation against the State. Those most directly affected crime are allowed to play an active role in restoring peace between individuals and within communities. Restoration of the emotional and material losses resulting from crime is far more important than imposing ever-increasing levels of costly punishment on the offender. The debt owed offenders is concrete. Rather than passively “taking their punishment,” offenders are encouraged to actively restore losses, to the degree possible, to victims and communities. The use of dialogue and negotiation among victims, victimized communities, and offenders is emphasized.
In truth, the essence of what is being called restorative justice is deeply rooted in the traditional practices of many indigenous people throughout the world.

The Child Justice Programme (CJP) consists of a series of presentations that covers and informs on a wide range of legal issues affecting children in South Africa, including but not limited to their rights, place in the legal system and what they can do when harmed, arrested, charged with an offence and in need of legal representation or protection.

Furthermore, this Programme aims to shed light and awareness on various global and domestic issues such as Gender Based Violence (GBV) and human trafficking, and to inform, encourage and assist children to seek legal protection and assistance when required.

The Programme further aims to enable children to stand firm in the knowledge of their rights granted South African law and International instruments, and to enable awareness of the limitations, duties and steps required in the enforcement of their rights. 

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, harnesses the power of language to break down the mental barriers we unknowingly create for ourselves. When ‘following your dreams and reaching your full potential can seem impossible, our NLP Couch will use this technique to help you realize that the only thing holding you back in life, is yourself.

“Neuro” meaning nerve, refers to the way we gather information from the outside world, using our five senses. “Linguistic” is the study of language, referring to the way we make sense of said information organizing it into the structure of language. Finally, “programming” is our way of controlling something. This refers to how we interpret the world and how we control our daily actions, choices, and behaviours.

NLP is considered to be one of the most useful and accessible tools to come from modern psychology and can assist with:

• stress management
• improving feelings of empathy
• improving communication skills
• resolving destructive relationship patterns

NLP teaches us how changing the way we perceive the world can lead us to adjust and adapt our behaviours in order to live the life we dream of. MNF  offers NLP coaches who will encourage clients to transform limiting self-beliefs and move out of their comfort zones. Breaking barriers and taking chances only helps to develop a fuller, happier, and infinitely more satisfying life.

It is known to be particularly effective for improving the following situations:

Anxiety and stress

NLP coaching can be an effective method for fighting feelings of stress and anxiety because it identifies the thought patterns that may be causing the pressure. As soon as these unconscious thought patterns are recognized, they can be challenged.

Health and well-being

One of the most important ideas underpinning NLP is that the mind and body are closely connected. When exercising, for example, people will experience positive mental and physical energy. By improving the way we approach and think about the world, we can improve the health and well-being of our bodies.

Fears and phobias

NLP is well-known for its effectiveness in helping people cope with fears and phobias. Such as anxiety and stress, NLP can reveal the thought process behind the often ‘irrational’ fear. NLP can help to change how a person thinks and feels about what was causing them to fear so that they are no longer afraid.

Relationships

Relationships are based on communication, and problems often arise when people are not communicating or expressing how they really feel. NLP can help a person become more aware of how they communicate. Understanding this can help people accept that others may have different views: one opinion is not wrong or right. With NLP coaching, practitioners hope that developing empathy skills, a person will find it easier to build strong and long-lasting relationships.

Confidence

It is common for people to see an NLP practitioner for relief from their own self-doubt and limitations. The techniques used can help the person break old habits and beliefs and gain new opportunities. NLP is effective in boosting an individual’s confidence  teaching them how to make decisions based on their dreams, rather than fears.

Business

NLP is an excellent tool for understanding people and their ways of communication. In terms of business, learning these tips from an NLP coach will help a person improve how they communicate, enhancing their ability to empathize and negotiate with colleagues, employees, and managers.

Addiction life coaching, also known as recovery coaching, is a form of strength-based behavioural health support for someone who has a substance use disorder or is in recovery. It’s a way to change a person’s life altering their thought process. At MNF our Professional recovery coaches help an addict to make better life decisions and spend less time struggling. They can assist in many different facets of recovery, such as detox, harm reduction, addiction treatment, and gaining the support of family members and loved ones.

The main purpose of addiction life coaching is to improve life and reach for goals. Together, the coach and the client will come up with a recovery plan and a specific set of objectives. MNF Addiction Life Coaches are non-clinical and do not diagnose or specifically treat addiction or mental health issues. This method of recovery support instead works under the assumption that enjoying life in recovery will usually lead to maintaining long-term recovery.

MNF addiction life coaches aim is to form solid recovery groundwork. They help clients recognize their strengths—like resourcefulness, creativity, and resilience—so they can use them to overcome challenges. They try to make sure the addict has things they want to achieve in life in order to assure them that recovery is worth the hard work.

They discuss what the client wants to talk about. This type of coaching focuses mostly on “doing” and living in the here and now, rather than “feeling” or focusing on the past for people who are seeking treatment or are already in treatment. This helps an addict feel less alone and have someone to talk to at any time. The coach acts as a guide to staying sober and on the right path implementing new decision-making skills.

• “Should I tell my boss I’m in recovery?”
• “How do I improve my everyday relationships with family members?”
• “Should I attend 12-step groups while on vacation?”
• “How can I save money so I can afford a new car?”
• “Will a new hob add value or only stress to my life?”

These are the types of questions recovering people may ask themselves about everyday life.

MNF are partners in finding the solutions from within, and clearly defining one’s own recovery journey.

An Employee Assistance Program incorporating the value of Family Wellness in terms of Mediation in society.

Employee Assistance Programme and Employee Family Wellness awoke a newly found generation to add a protentional value of mediation to be applied field.

During our careers, we may experience professional and/or personal situations that affect our capacity to perform appropriately at our workplace and with many EAP’S not having in-contact programmes with members the problem remains unresolved.  

MNF can play a vital role providing you with knowledge and resources to support your wellbeing. MNF is here to help, and it is entirely confidential.

Definition of the Employee Assistance Programme

Employee Assistance is the work organisation’s resource based on core technologies or functions to enhance employee and workplace effectiveness through prevention, identification, and resolution of personal and productivity issues;

Adding value including Family Wellness

Our Family Wellness programme will not only focus on employers and employee’s but also on the direct family member, the psycho-social well-being of all families which in time of need may adversely affect the performance and well-being of each and every individual.

The goal is to provide proactive and reactive interventions, through the application of acknowledged core technologies, for the early identification and/or resolution of both work and personal challenges that may adversely affect performance and well-being both in the workplace and at home.

These challenges and issues may include but are not limited to relationships, health, trauma, substance abuse, gambling and other addictions, financial problems, mental and psychiatric disorders, communication, legal, structural and transformational issues. We now include the aspect of Mediation which core focus will be on Family Wellness. Issues may include but are not limited to Divorces, Parenting Plans, Single Father’s rights, maintenance payments, social services and case management with regards to high conflict.

The programme and its three clients’

Individual employees: experiencing personal issues which may affect their social functioning and productivity;

Corporate clients: experiencing “personal” issues, which may affect their profits and service rendering;

Families: experiencing personal issues which may affect their children including parental co-parenting.

About the Program

The programme helps employees (including managers) and families to work through various life challenges that may adversely affect job performance, health, or personal wellbeing to optimize an organization’s success alternatively to restore family wellness.

Our services include family mediation, workplace mediation, assessments, counselling, and referrals for additional services to employees with personal and/or work-related concerns, such as stress, financial issues, legal issues, child and elder care, family problems, office conflicts, and alcohol and substance use.

Benefits for Employees and Families

• Offers easy access to resources and confidential experts who can help.
• Improves employees’ and dependents’ abilities to successfully respond to challenges.
• Reduces stress.
• Decreases health-related expenses associated with stress, depression, and other mental health issues.

Benefits for Companies

• Increases employee productivity and engagement.
• Reduces healthcare costs.
• Reduces the need for unscheduled leave.
• Improves employee morale.
• Facilitates safe, timely, and effective return-to-work following leave.
• Develops skills in managing workplace stress and improves teamwork performance.
• Facilitates successful adjustment to workforce restructuring, reductions-in-force, and/or other workforce change events.
• Reduces the likelihood of workplace violence and/or other safety risks.
• Supports emergency awareness, response, and recovery.
• Promotes and supports a drug- and alcohol-free workplace.

Five Ways  Family Wellness Can Help You.

(1) Family Law & Divorce Mediation

To introduce an alternative dispute resolution means of mediation to guide families in rough waters to find amicable ways to settle their disputes.

We support motivated but overwhelmed parents and teach them through guidance to love their families and act in the best interest of their children. Creating lasting relationships, fulfilling and meaningful in their children’s lives.

We focus on the dads and moms as men and women, not just in their roles as parents.

We offer Family Divorce Mediation for parents considering divorce, we assist families during separation to ensure the child’s best interests have been applied assisting parents to agree in terms of parental rights and responsibilities, arrear maintenance and case management where high conflict parenting is detected.

We are able to provide support, referrals and other resources for issues outside of parenting.

(2) Psychology / Neurotherapy / Trauma Counselling

We provide initial assessment and short-term counselling to employees, including their immediate family members, at no cost. You can seek confidential help with work, family, personal matters, legal, stress, and other issues affecting your well-being.

(3) Work and Family

Work-family conflict can have negative effects on your behaviour, emotions, and health. We can help you and your family members find resources for the challenges you may face, including divorces, child maintenance, mediation, parenting plans, parental alienation assistance and social services.

(4) Labour

Occasionally you may face a situation at work hence a dispute with a co-worker and even a disciplinary hearing. We offer workplace mediation and labour consultancy services at no cost. In some instances, we will request your consent to contact your union, if any but all situations will be discussed confidentially and without prejudice.

(5) Legal Consultation

Occasionally, you may face a legal situation or have a question on a legal issue that you would like to discuss with an attorney. We provide consultations and referral services for a wide range of legal issues. If you need additional legal assistance, MNF may be able to help you retain a lawyer at a lower rate. Note that attorney-own-client costs are not included in your membership. Some examples of legal services provided MNF include obtaining restraining orders, family law and mediation and Restorative Justice.

Services

• Clinical Services                     
• Critical Incident management
• Crisis intervention
• Case assessment
• Referral
• Short term intervention
• Case monitoring and evaluation
• Aftercare and Ireintegration
• Non-clinical Services 
• Organisational consultation
• EAP management and supervisory training
• Marketing
• Mediation  Family Law & Divorce
• Workplace

Two costing models

(1) Fee for Service       

Pay what you get

 Choose components and Compose your model

(2) Retainer fee/capitated model              

pay set fee per employee per month/year

Negotiate for best price

Fee set despite variation on number of referrals

More referrals – more beneficent for corporate client

Lesser referrals – more beneficent for provider

Did you know?

Substance abuse has a major impact on individuals, families, communities, and the workplace.

Employees and families affected substance use or substance abuse disorders can find resources to help through the programme.

Emergencies, disasters, and other traumatic events are often unpredictable. MNF can help employees, managers, and teams developing techniques and plans for coping with stress, facilitating group debriefing sessions, and identifying and referring employees to professional and community resources.

All our services are available to managers. We also offer leaders management consultation and guidance on topics such as, supporting employees in need, managing troubled employees, addressing conflict, and positive communication techniques.