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Supervised Visitation Centers

Produced by Jeff Wolf, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute
Reviewed July 2021

Supervised visitation centers are community organizations in various locations that provide supervised visitation services.  

This article has program flyers, rules of operations, and information about supervising visits in other languages.

Program flyers

Here are supervised visitation center program flyers containing contact and other basic information about several supervised visitation centers.   These are the program flyers of some, but not all, of the supervised visitation centers that are members of the Massachusetts Coalition for Supervised Visitation.  The Coalition is the Massachusetts chapter of the Supervised Visitation Network.  The web address of the Supervised Visitation Network is www.svnetwork.net

 

A Safe Place, Nantucket

Alternative House Children's Visitation Center, Middlesex and Essex Counties

Alternative House Sliding Fee Scale

Elizabeth Freeman Center Supervised Visitation, Pittsfield

Family & Community Resources, Inc., Brockton, Hyannis

Franklin County Children's Visitation Program, a program of the New England Center for Women in Transition

KidSpace - Metrowest Visitation Center, Framingham (also in Spanish and Portuguese)

KidSpace - MetroWest Visitation Center - Fees (also in Spanish)

Meeting Place: Supervised Child Access Service, Cambridge

Children's Services of Roxbury

New Hope Supervised Family Visitation Center, Worcester

Safe Child Visitation Center, Fall River

YWCA Visitation Centers, Hampden and Hampshire Counties

Program rules of operation

Supervised visitation centers have rules of operation that parents must follow.  The rules include requirements designed to make the visitation center safe for the child being visited there and for the parent who brings the child for visitation. Here are the rules of several supervised visitation centers.  Each is a member of the Coalition for Supervised Visitation, the Massachusetts chapter of the Supervised Visitation Network.  The web address of the Supervised Visitation Network is www.svnetwork.net.

Alternative House, Lowell

Alternative House Monitored Exchange Policy

Brockton Family and Community Resources

KidSpace - MetroWest Visitation Center, Framingham

Meeting Place, Cambridge

New Hope Supervised Family Visitation Center, Worcester 

Safe Child Visitation Center, Fall River

YWCA of Western Mass. Visitation Center (Springfield) Ground Rules (Residential Parent)

YWCA of Western Mass. Visitation Center (Springfield) Ground Rules (Non-Residential Parent)

YWCA of Western Mass. Visitation Center (Northampton) Ground Rules (Residential Parent)

YWCA of Western Mass. Visitation Center (Northampton) Ground Rules (Non-Residential Parent)

Supervising visits in other languages

Some supervised visitation centers can supervise visits in languages other than English.

Spanish

Franklin County Children's Visitation Program

KidSpace, Framingham

KidSpace, Reglas básicas

Brockton Family and Community Resources Visitation Program

Alternative House Children's Visitation Center, Lowell

Meeting Place, Cambridge

Safe Child Visitation Center, Fall River

Portuguese

KidSpace, Framingham

KidSpace, Regras básicas

Brockton Family and Community Resources Visitation Program

Alternative House Children's Visitation Center, Lowell

Safe Child Visitation Center, Fall River

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