The Family Visitation Center strives to provide a safe, comfortable, and accessible environment in which supervised visitation opportunities for children and families (involved in juvenile court) can take place.
Every year over one hundred children enter the juvenile court system as a result of abuse or neglect.
Supervised parent-child visitations are crucial to the process of bringing parents and their children back together. These visits not only provide feedback to the court on the progress of a family, but more importantly, they allow participants to maintain their familial bond.
Proven as a cornerstone to family reunification, supervised visitation keeps families boneded, and helps them heal and strengthen, as parents complete goals for reunification.
These sessions focus on increasing parental involvement with their children, drug education, family communication skills and discussions about the legal, psychological, and physical aspects of substance abuse.
The S.U.P.E.R. Program includes various instructional methods such as lecture, video, role-playing, and interactive techniques; all are aimed at helping participants acquire specific skills to cope with the pressures they face in their respective environments.
S.U.P.E.R is a free class for parents and their teens. Classes are offered year-round. They are held as two-hour sessions, once a week for six weeks. Location of classes varies.
The Goals of S.U.P.E.R are to: