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The Toby Center’s Mission: To maximize child outcomes by strengthening parent and child relationships when parents separate. This is accomplished through a replicable program of wraparound services including family mediation and parent coordination, supervised visitation, and therapeutic interventions.
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Since 2010, the Toby Center mission is to provide multiple services to parents journeying through
separation and divorce in such a way as to reduce parent conflict and improve outcomes for children.
Toby Center field staff provide a unique array of court ordered and other services to assist high conflict and alienated parents when journeying through marital change, and child custody litigation.
– Standard and Therapeutic supervised visitation
– Monitored Child Exchange
– Individual and Family Therapy
– Mediation and Parent Coordination
– Child Reunification Therapy
– Mandated Parent Education and Co-Parenting
– Parenting Skills
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Health Insurance does not pay for supervised visitation or reunification.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING SERVICES
We welcome your inquiry and invite you to visit our Client Portal to view and complete documentation for new client services: Click Here! Upon completion and if you have questions, please contact Claire Berkoff, Toby Center New Client Coordinator: clberko@aol.com; Tel. 855-862-9236, ext. 1.
Thank you for thinking of the Toby Center for your visitation and reunification needs!
This service provides a neutral, family friendly location where a third party may observe and facilitate the transfer of children from one parent or guardian to another parent or guardian. The process is documented and helpful for the courts to determined when there may be a move towards the natural exchange of children for shared parenting without a third party necessary.
Mediation is the process where separated parents can reach decisions on everything affecting their lives following divorce. Let us help you through this process.
“Children in Between” is the Parenting Course required of all Florida parents to take when a divorce, separation, custody case is filed. See what your state requires.
Individual and Couples Coaching/Counseling available to help navigate the divorce process or to build upon their relationships.
Specialized therapy: strengthen the bonds of affection, and engage the child with the non-custodial parent in order to prepare the child for change of custody
In the most extreme cases, parents exhibit hostile behavior, either overt or covert. They unconsciously or with forethought vilify the other parent—usually the absent parent—in the eyes of the children. Courtroom battling and domestic conflict cause children to feel insecure. “Children commonly interpret conflict as caused by the rejected parent and as abusive and victimizing of the aligned parent (and by extension, the child). This process is often described as alienation.
Therapeutic Visitation has been found increasingly valuable as it provides that a clinically licensed mental health professional may be better able to assist a child’s emotional experience for supervised visitation. This service is very helpful when the parents’ personalities are found to be highly conflicted, agitated, fearful, and mistrustful. It also is significantly helpful as the licensed clinician can incorporate therapeutic skills to educate, to intervene, and to support in order to help improve the parent and child relationship, and to therefore improve child outcomes most readily. Mental health issues, family history of domestic violence, and drug or alcohol abuse are often the catalyst to use therapeutic visitation.
Supervised visitation is among the most useful options for a court to recommend when there may be allegations or concerns for emotional and or physical safety, fear of child abduction, or mental health issues. The value of this service is to provide the court with valuable observations of interactions between children and parents, and between the parents or guardians themselves. In time, the emotional bonds between children and non-custodial parents have found to improve so that there can be subsequent orders permitting a normal time sharing.
“I’m writing in reference to my experience with The Toby Center, particularly with Paula. In short, she has made this extremely difficult time in my life much easier with her positive feedback, constructive criticism, and overall support. While I was at first a bit apprehensive of the notion of supervised visitation, Paula has done a great job at making it the best experience possible.”
Their heart is in the right place.
A Short History of Joint Custody Advocacy
Dr. Mark Roseman (click here for bio) founded the Toby Center for Family Transition in 2008 to honor his mother, Toby, who had passed in 2007. Originally from New England, Dr. Roseman moved to Florida where family laws are among the most progressive in the nation.
He initially had thought the Toby Center’s main program would be family court mediation. Instead, Dr. Roseman found that the need for supervised visitation had escalated in Florida as providers lost their funding. Today, the Toby Center provides one of the largest supervised visitation programs in Florida and offers multiple child custody and therapeutic services for families in transition.
AN AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE
TO UNDERSTANDING DIVORCE AND CHILD CUSTODY,
FOR PARENTS AND FAMILY PROFESSIONALS.
Dr. Mark David Roseman
We are honored by the two people who had the greatest inspiration for the creation of the Toby Center.
1929-2007
Dr. Roseman’s mother, Toby gave him life, optimism, and humor.
Click here for "Toby's Kids", a special page for children!
1936-2014
Dr. Roseman’s mentor in joint custody, David was acknowledged by three Presidents and the Federal Department of Child Support Enforcement for advocating a child’s right to two parents and supporting custody policy changes in over thirty states.
Friends,
Did you know that thirty percent of children needing supervised visitation time is unable to have this precious and necessary time?
For those with such court orders, there is little available support for these services.
There is no well of financial support for providers as the Toby Center. In 2020, the Toby Center received its first grant of $25,000 from the Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County. However, those monies could not support area families for more than four months.
Increasingly, since our founding in 2010, the Toby Center has been expected to provide these child reunification services throughout Florida. That is because our service model works. Yet, there is little regular support to help keep our mission above water. In this pandemic period, our revenues are only 70% of pre-pandemic and we are operating at a deficit exceeding $2500 monthly.
We need your help and are so happy to now introduce options of support that will also benefit you!
Choose to sponsor a child each month!
Donate $100 monthly to help us afford our mission!
Select a level of support that you can afford! Click here for details!
Thank you so very much for caring! Please support us!
Sincerely,
Dr. Mark Roseman,
Founder/CEO
These children are all at risk for teen pregnancy, alcohol and substance abuse, and suicide.
Statistics show you will save a child when you preserve their relationship with BOTH parents. You can help
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Claire Berkoff
Tel: 855-862-9236 ext. 1
Fax: 855-332-7321
