A supervised visitation center is a place for families to meet, who have been separated by the juvenile court system. The families will be undergoing a court ordered plan to reconcile and provide the children with a safe environment to live. The kids will have been placed in foster care until the plan is completed. The Supervised Visitation Center will be used as a means to bring reconciliation to broken families.

This is a positive alternative to court mandated supervised visitations taking place in the crowded confines of the Department of Family and Children Services office. In this program families will have an opportunity to fulfill the mandates of the court in a safe and friendly environment. The goal of this program will be to help re-unite families and offer some positive modeling for the families' futures. Parenting classes, anger management classes and other family oriented services are being considered to aid in this goal.

Please check the Scheduled Classes link periodically to see what classes are currently being offered by the Ministry Village.

The benefits of supervised visitation:

• Ease the pain of separation and loss for all
• Maintain and strengthen family relationships
• Reassure the child of the parent’s well-being
• Support the child’s adjustment in the foster home
• Enable the child’s parents to stay current with the child’s development and activities
• Visits provide parents with motivation and hope
• Provides critical information to DFACS and the court system about the parent/child relationship