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Child Visitation: Community organizations & private visitation supervisors:

Legislative findings and declarations:
The Legislature finds and declares that:
a. In the area of child visitation a court often orders supervised visitation where there has been a history of child abuse, medical disabilities, psychiatric problems or other situations where the safety and welfare of the child may be jeopardized.
b. Often court ordered supervised visitation never occurs due to the inability to locate volunteers willing to be present during the visitation and a facility in which the visitation may take place.
c. The inability of a parent or guardian to spend time with a child poses serious psychological problems to both the parent and the child and prevents the growth of a normal, healthy relationship.
d. The purpose of this act is to facilitate supervised visitation by making the facilities and members of local community organizations available to assist in court ordered supervised visitation.
[N.J.S.A. 2A:12-7]

Any court having jurisdiction over a child visitation matter, which orders supervised child visitation, may direct in the order that the visitation take place at an approved community organization.
[N.J.S.A. 2A:12-12]

Community organizations & private visitation supervisors:

• Safe Harbor Child Access Centers
• Somerset-Zarephath Child Access Center
• Passaic Child Access Center
• Supervised Visitation Network
• Healing Hearts Supervised Visitation Program — Township of Ocean, Monmouth County
• Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen; Youth Services (Middlesex; Hunterdon; Warren & Somerset Counties)
• Interstate FACTS, LLC, in Hackensack
• Children’s Rights Council — Child Access Centers

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Related documents:

1. Standards of Practice. The links to the various Standards are published by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
2. The Troubling Admission of Supervised Visitation Records in Custody Proceedings, by Nat Stern
3. Social Workers as Expert Witnesses, by: Carolyn I. Polowy, JD and Joel Gilbertson, Law Clerk; Published: October 1997 by The National Association of Social Workers.

NOTE: My Law Office is located at 726 West Saint Georges [W. St. Georges] Avenue (Route 27), Linden, Union County, NJ. Telephone: 908-486-2200

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