As a member of the multi-national Supervised Visit Network, Visiting Angels offers Certification Training for Visit Supervisors to assure that children have safe, conflict-free access to parents with whom they do not reside. Some of the children who require a supervised visit with their parents live in foster homes or with relatives. Others live with one parent who is estranged from the other. A supervised visit can be the only way to ensure that children and their parents are able to be together.
Certification Training for Visit Supervisors
Visit Supervisors must complete 24 hours of training covering at least:
- Provider policies and procedures
- Safety for all participants
- Mandatory child abuse reporting
- Professional boundaries, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and maintaining neutrality
- Basic stages of child development
- Effects of separation and divorce on children and families
- Grief and loss associated with parental separation and removal from the home due to child abuse and neglect
- Cultural sensitivity and diversity
- Family violence, including domestic violence and the effects of domestic violence on children
- Child abuse and neglect, including child sexual abuse
- Substance abuse
- Provisions of service to parents and children with mental health and developmental issues or other physical or emotional impairment
- Parent introduction/re-introduction
- Parenting skills
- Assertiveness training and conflict resolution
- How and when to intervene during visits or exchanges to maintain the safety of all participants
- Observation of parent/child interactions
- Preparation of factual observation notes and reports, and
- Relevant laws regarding child custody and visitation and child protection.