Safe place for father to visit his child
Alice and her daughter Lilly, who is 14 years old, needed to find a safe place where Lilly could visit her father and develop a positive relationship with him. The separated parents applied to access Better Place Australia Children’s Contact Service (CCS). Better Place Australia supervised contact centres Melbourne and Gippsland provide safe neutral spaces for supervised visits and facilitated changeovers.
Andrew, Program Lead CCS, shared “After an intake assessment with each parent individually, we determined it was appropriate to proceed with the service and the practitioner began facilitating supervised visitations between Lilly and her father.
“To maintain safety, we arranged for the father to arrive 15 minutes early, with Lilly and her mother arriving 15 minutes later. This meant there was no crossover, ensuring a safe environment and experience for the visitations.”
How has it been going for them?
Watch the case study video below where Andrew, Program Manager CCS, shares a snapshot of how Better Place Australia is helping this family.
The benefits using Better Place Australia
There are many benefits using the Better Place Australia Children’s Contact Service.
These include:
- easy to apply form
- child-focused
- confidential, safe, facilitative environment
- access to child counselling and parenting programs as part of service
- ability to refer to counselling, psychological and mediation services without switching providers
- access to parenting programs
- convenient locations close to transport and facilities hub.
The Better Place Australia Children’s Contact Service requires application forms from both parents to proceed to the Intake and Assessment stage. Once application forms have been received, both parents will be contacted for private individual intake interviews. Fees are shared between both parents unless otherwise specified in Court Orders.
Better Place Australia CCS locations
Better Place Australia Children’s Contact Service Narre Warren and Sale provide a nurturing environment for safe changeovers and visitations for children; two of the many supervised contact centres in Melbourne and Gippsland providing supervised visits and facilitated changeovers.
