Truly Building Healthier Families

The St. Cloud Area Family YMCA is especially proud to provide Supervised Visits, Supervised/Monitored Exchanges for area families. For more information, contact our Director of Social Services.

OUR MISSION:

To provide families, who are court ordered to have supervised visitations, with a positive, healthy environment in which to interact, offering them a place where family vulnerability will be reduced.

DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM:

Fractured families may have court ordered visitations to ensure the best experience for any child and family member involved. Non-custodial parents (or extended family members) are allowed to visit with their children in a neutral, controlled condition for a set period of time promoting positive interactions through health and wellness for youth development, for healthy living, and for social responsibility.

Each visitation is directly supervised and documented to ensure the contact is made in a healthy and positive manner.

OUR PROCEDURE

The custodial and non-custodial parties will contact the Visitation Director after receiving the court order for supervised visitations.

The custodial and non-custodial parties must go through an intake process and be approved into the program before scheduling visitations.  Both custodial and non-custodial parties must provide the Visitation Director with appropriate court papers.


Custodial and non-custodial parties will be contacted by Supervised Visitation staff after the case has been approved.  Visitations may begin one to two weeks after being accepted into the program, depending on availability and schedules.

OUR SCHEDULE TIMES & VISIT HOURS

During the school year:

Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Sunday: 11:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Visits can be scheduled for up to two hours, twice weekly.

FEES

Please contact the Social Work Director for fees. Scholarships are available.

ACTIVITIES 

Children and parties are able to utilize these fun activity areas.

Large Gym: Basketball, soccer, kickball, football etc.

Rainbow Room/Kid’s Gym: coloring, painting, reading, puzzles, toys, climbing wall, listening to music, etc. 

Lobby/Conference Room: eating, reading, talking, coloring, watching swimmers, watching movies, etc.

Outside Activities: Playground, football, soccer, baseball/softball, catch, etc.

*All activities are dependent upon gym and racquetball schedules and the availability of the conference room. Please notify the Visitation Supervisor of your desired plan.*

SUPERVISED EXCHANGES

DESCRIPTION

Supervised Exchanges occur when parents (or extended family members) exchange their children for their scheduled court-ordered visitation time. The actual exchange is monitored and documented by supervised exchange staff members, who attempt to ease the process for the children.

PROCEDURE

Custodial and Non-custodial parties will contact the Social Work Director after receiving the court order for Supervised Child Exchanges.  The custodial and non-custodial parties must go through an intake. Supervised Child Exchanges will not be provided until BOTH parties have completed an intake. Parties need to provide the Social Work Director with the appropriate court papers when needed.

FEE

The fee for Supervised Child Exchanges is $10.00 per exchange and should be shared by both parties unless stated differently in the court order. In the event that the cost is shared, scholarships will not apply.

FAQs --

What services do you offer?

• Direct supervision of each visit or exchange to ensure that the contact is made in a  healthy and positive manner.

• Documentation of Compliance with court mandates

• Fun activity areas for the child and non-custodial party to interact

Who are the Vistiation/Exchange staff members?

• All visitation/exchange supervisors have backgrounds in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, Criminal Justice, or Human Relations, and are trained to deal with issues concerning families in crisis. Visitation staff is informed of the confidentiality policy and sign a waiver stating the same.  Any breach of this policy will result in the dismissal of the visitation/exchange supervisor.

The SVSE Department is Closed Holidays         

Summer hours vary – Contact us for details