SUPERVISED VISITATION

Supervised Visitation service allows children to reconnect and reestablish the parent/child/family relationship in a safe and structured environment. This service provides parents with an opportunity to learn and practice new concepts of parenting and to assess their own ability to parent through interaction with the child. Furthermore, supervised visitation allows referring agency to assess the relationship between the child and parent and to assist the parent in strengthening and developing their parenting skills.

Supervised visits can occur in three types of settings:

Facilitated visits is the most intensive where a facilitator works one on one with a family, supervising the visit the entire time, providing redirection, modeling, suggestions, and assisting with offering needed resources.
Home-based visits are monitored visit that occur in the clients or family members home. These visits are also supervised the entire visit.
Community visit is still supervised and monitored the entire visit and features one facilitator to one family in a community setting deemed appropriate.
Level Sensitive Supervise Visitation on all visits

The facilitator will assist the family by strengthening, teaching, demonstrating and/or role-modeling parenting skills, and monitoring, but not limited to, the following areas:

Our supervised family visits include:

Visit planning
Interaction with parent before visit to set goals regarding successful visitation
Parent coaching with curriculum before and during visit to introduce new skills
Observation of interaction between parent and child during visit
Feedback after visit regarding noted strengths and progress made by parent toward set goals
Establishing and/or strengthening the parent/child relationship
Instructing parents in child care skills such as feeding, diapering, and proper hygiene
Teaching positive affirmations and praising when appropriate
Teaching age-appropriate discipline
Teaching safety regarding age-appropriate toys, climbing, running, jumping, or other safety issues depending on the environment
Helping parents gain confidence in meeting their child’s needs.

TRANSPORTATION

Glasshouse Visitation & Nurturing Center gives children the opportunity to maintain a relationship with their parents through safe, positive supervised Transports. Glasshouse believes through collaborative effort with the referring agency, providing transportation and supervision for visits between children in out of home placements and their families will eliminate the barrier of missed visits. The Glasshouse Facilitator will transport the children and/or families to designated places for their visits. These could include the biological family’s residence, a relative’s home, Glasshouse Visitation & Nurturing Center, or other specified locations in the community.

Nurturing Parenting Skills for Families in Supervised Visits

The“Nurturing Parenting Skills for Families in Supervised Visitation” program is an evidenced based curriculum that ensures growth of new parenting skills during supervised visits. Nurturing Parenting Skills for “Families in Supervised Visitation” program is designed specifically for supervised visitation services and is implemented by all Glasshouse facilitators.

SAMHSA recognizes Nurturing Parent Programs as an approved parenting education that promotes safety, stability, and nurturing of children. All visitation facilitators are trained in the most current model of the “Nurturing Parenting Skills for Families in Supervised Visitation.” This program will enable providers to assist the family in strengthening, teaching, monitoring, demonstrating and role modeling appropriate parenting skills during visits.

Additionally, this program will also promote documentation and report writing geared toward family and referring agency goals while measuring if new parenting skills have been retained and utilized by the parents.

Glasshouse Visitation & Nurturing Center determines client’s level of need by embracing the referring agency’s stated presenting problems and by employing the Nurturing Parenting Program’s Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2.1) and Nurturing Skills Competency Scale (NSCS) assessments tool.

These tools measure:

Pre: Data collected prior to the formal start of your program to determine entry level capabilities.
Process: Data collected during the referral period to monitor ongoing growth and changes.
Post: Data collected at the completion before the discharge of the case to determine the level of growth and future intervention needs of the family before and after case closure.

SIX PROTECTIVE FACTORS

1. Nurturing & Attachment

2. Knowledge of Child Developmental Stages

Nurturing children and developing attachment with children is the process of a parent bonding emotionally with his or her child through kind, supportive, age-appropriate behavior. In this process, the child learns to trust and feel secure with the parent. Nurturing and attachment are keys for developing bonds between parent and child.

2. Knowledge of Child Developmental Stages

Knowledge about child development is gained when the parent learns about how the child grows emotionally, physically, and mentally, and the needs that accompany these changes. This knowledge allows parents to have realistic expectations of a child’s behavior and abilities, as well as to be able to fulfill the child’s needs.

3. Parental Resilience

2. Knowledge of Child Developmental Stages

4. Supportive Social Connections

Parental resilience is defined as parents’ own inner resources and coping skills that help them handle stress and crises. Resilient coping skills allow a parent to be able to solve problems, keep calm when upset, and make it through challenging times. When parents are resilient, they are better able to build strong and resilient families

4. Supportive Social Connections

6. Social and Emotional Competence of Children

4. Supportive Social Connections

The presence of supportive family members, friends, and neighbors helps keep families emotionally healthy and encourages positive parenting practices. When parents have supportive social connections, they are better able to cope with the many challenges of parenting.

5. Access to Concrete Community Supports

6. Social and Emotional Competence of Children

When a family is struggling to meet basic needs, this stress can lead to family dysfunction. Concrete community supports are social services that provide basic resources such as food, water, shelter, safety, health care, and mental health care. Other services that can act as built-in community supports include: childcare, domestic violence services, substance abuse treatment, employment assistance, housing, transportation, and financial literacy.

6. Social and Emotional Competence of Children

Emotional competence can be defined as a child’s ability to identify and express his or her feelings. Social competence refers to a child’s ability to interact with other people. Emotional competence and social competence go hand-in-hand, as both involve skill sets that help to express, define, and interpret emotions. Emotional and social competencies also allow children to relate and respond to the feelings of others, as well as to communicate their needs.