THERAPEUTIC & SUPERVISED VISITATION
The Toby Center forms partnerships with community and faith-based organizations to provide family-friendly locations to conduct supervised visits and also neutral drop off and pick up locations as well. Our locations provide trained family monitors who are knowledgeable and compassionate. They are trained to ensure safety for all parties, to assure that children can be afforded quality, nurturing and loving sessions with their parent. Also see Supervised Visittion.
The Toby Center seeks neutral and comfortable places for child and parent interactions so as to eventually eliminate the need for client families to have supervised visitation and child exchange.Toby Center Child Access Services offer parents and children a safe, neutral and comfortable location for supervised visitation and monitored child exchange.
Our trained monitors are respectful, compassionate and vigilant and serve to ensure your child’s safety and well-being.
Family monitors help with family reunification and help reconnect children and parents through support and facilitation and are accountable also to the court or agency which has ordered these services.
The Toby Center forms partnerships with community and faith-based organizations to provide family-friendly locations to conduct supervised visits and also neutral drop off and pick up locations as well.
Our locations provide trained family monitors who are knowledgeable and compassionate. They are trained to ensure safety for all parties, to assure that children can be afforded quality, nurturing and loving sessions with their parent.
The Toby Center seeks neutral and comfortable places for child and parent interactions so as to eventually eliminate the need for client families to have supervised visitation and child exchange.
This visitation service is facilitated and monitored by a clinically licensed person as a therapist, mental health counselor or clinical social worker. Though not considered therapy, the efforts by the facilitating professional are to help parents and children through the challenges of visitation and frequently engage all parties including the custodial (at home) parent. Also see Supervised Visitation.
What is a Toby Center visitation location?
A Toby Center visitation location is a neutral, family-friendly third-party venue offering emotional and physical safety, and comfort that is age appropriate for the children. You will find children’s toys, carpeting, comfortable and large furniture, and children’s artwork or play areas including swings, picnic area, and other comforts. Toby Center frequently uses children’s museums, parks and recreation areas, and other friendly locations which will provide the stimulation and fun that meets the child’s emotional, social and physical abilities. Family Monitors will provide these services at a parent or family member’s home if court ordered or otherwise agreed upon by the parties.
Why a neutral transfer or visitation location?
Neutral locations eliminate he said/she said in custody cases. Neutral locations allow both the child and the visiting parent less stress for reunification and strengthening of the child and parent bond. Trained family monitors monitor, observe and document each child exchange and supervised visitation session. Neutrality affords control for building integrity and honest interactions which can be protected by the monitors.
For appropriate supervised visitation, it is important that the parties have a court order. We have found that court orders frequently lack clarification for visitation including:
- who is responsible for intake fee;
- Who is responsible for service fees;
- when will visitation be scheduled;
- how frequently shall the visitation occur;
- maximum number of hours.
Given these and other variables, we recommend that counsel consider our template which includes these and other details. Upon review, counsel is welcome to use and modify this to apply to their concerns for clients.
Please know that each party needs to consider that the Toby Center is responsible for the physical and emotional safety of both parents and children. Therefore, the Toby Center staff will consider all requests from the parties and or court order, but we will need to make the final determination of location, time, frequency based on our experience and background understanding of the clients including age and capacity of the children.
If you may have any questions, please contact the Toby Center Program Director. The Visitation Program Director is also available to speak at your Bar Association of other Professional Association to explain any aspect of supervised visitation.
Fees
The Toby Center offers supervised visitation services to our family clients by making available a more affordable sliding scale fee structure. The hourly fee is based on the documented total household income of the client requiring the visitation. All income must be documented in order that we can afford to accommodate the client requiring the visitation. Fees must be prepaid before services can be rendered. Acceptable payment is by debit or credit card and processed through the Toby Center Administrative Office, 855-862-9236, ext. 1.
Gross Annual Income Rate
Above $ 70,000 $ 120 / hour
$ 50,000 – $ 69,999 $ 110 / hour
$ 30,000 – $ 49,000 $ 100 / hour
Less than $ 30,000 $ 95 / hour
Intake Fee An intake is required prior to scheduling Therapeutic Visitation. There is an Intake fee of $125 per party (no fee for children) which is a separate required procedure to help us understand your history, your goals and to learn if there had been prior therapeutic treatment.
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