The Community Based Family Visitation program provides supervised visitation to parents and their children in a community setting, with parent friendly hours of operation. The Visitation Centers primary activities include: 1) providing a family-friendly environment for supervised visitation; 2) observing parent-child interaction during supervised visits; 3) providing interactive parenting education and family support; 4) modeling and coaching appropriate parent/child interaction; 5) documenting services provided; and 6) consulting with assigned Children and Family Services (CFS) staff.  
  
The Visitation Centers, as part of the Progress Step-Down Model in the CFS Visitation Policy, offer an opportunity for parents to demonstrate their capacity to safely engage with their children. When parents demonstrate that they understand how to keep their children safe, they transition into unsupervised visits and ultimately, children return home. A key component in the Community Based Family Visitation model is that parents and children have more frequent visitation and for longer periods of time. Visits are supervised by Visitation Monitors who provide ongoing mentoring and coaching for the parent. It is our belief that this model allows for a more meaningful connection between the children and family, and has an inspirational effect on the parents continued work towards reunification.

Vital services cannot be provided.

This contract supports all five community outcomes established in the Children's Report Card: (1) "Children Ready for and Succeeding in School"; (2) "Children and Youth Healthy and Preparing for Productive Adulthood"; (3) "Families that are Economically Self-Sufficient"; (4) "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing"; and (5) "Communities that are Safe and Provide a High Quality of Life for Children and Families” by providing services to prevent child abuse and thus maintain the family.