National Association for Single and Divorced Families (NASDF): The $19 Lifeline: Free Therapy, Childcare Discounts & Real Support for Divorced Families

About this episode

In this episode, Olivia Howell interviews Joy Read about the National Association for Single and Divorced Families and the support it offers to divorced families.

When you're going through a divorce, the world doesn't stop spinning — but it can feel like everyone else's resources did. Therapy is expensive. Childcare is exhausting and often unaffordable. And the practical realities of building a new life on one income, while co-parenting, grieving, and showing up for your kids, can feel completely overwhelming. In this episode of Divorce Happens, host Olivia Howell sits down with Joy Read, co-founder of the National Association for Single and Divorced Families (NASDF) — a nonprofit membership organization built from the ground up to close the resource gap for families navigating divorce and single parenthood. Joy and her co-founder Ron modeled NASDF after AARP: a bundled benefits platform that gives members access to real, practical support — mental health care, child education discounts, financial advisors, mediators, and more — all for just $19 a month. What Joy brings to this conversation is more than organizational expertise — it's personal conviction rooted in watching women she knows leave jobs because daycare was too expensive, then find themselves suddenly divorced with no financial runway. The mental health benefit alone is a…

People in this episode

Host: Olivia Howell

Guest: Joy Read

Topics covered

• divorce
• single parenthood
• mental health
• childcare
• support services

Keywords

• divorce support
• free therapy
• childcare discounts
• NASDF
• single parent resources

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Association for Single and Divorced Families, Rikiro, AARP

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