Creative Activities Parents Can Do With Their Children

It is without question that providing supervised visitation services is challenging, requires a steady head and heart, and can create meaningful and lasting change for individuals and families.

Supervised visitation providers are constantly responding to the unique needs and realities of working with families to provide trauma-informed, compassionate services. In doing so, the work requires creativity, flexibility, and a reliable assessment of safety and well-being for child and adult survivors of intimate partner abuse. When providing safe, supervised visitation services, developing compassion and empathy for each parent and child is an important strategy for supporting safety and creating opportunities for change. Leading from a place of care demonstrates to families that they matter. It can also help soften worries that parents and children may have when entering services.