The Wellstone Family Safety Program (FSP) is a safe & friendly place that provides a positive & nurturing environment to promote healthy parent/child relationships. The FSP also reduces children’s exposure to domestic violence.
The Wellstone
Family
Families that use the FSP
can be referred through the Court, Human Services, attorneys, mediation, or they
can refer themselves.
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The
Therapeutic Supervised Visitation
Therapeutic
supervised visitations are conducted when a family has a history of sexual abuse
of a child, there has been a long period of separation between the parent/child(ren),
the non-custodial parent's behavior scares the child(ren) or the last time the
child(ren) has seen the parent was during a violent incident.
A therapeutic visit operates similar to a supervised visit, except that a
licensed therapist is the person supervising the visit.
The therapist interacts with the family prior to, during, and after the
visit to mend and heal the parent / child(ren) relationship.
Supervised
Exchanges
Supervised exchanges are
designed to transfer children from one parent to the other for visitation
without the parents having any contact with each other and thereby eliminating
the possibility of children witnessing any violence between the adults.
The
To set up an intake, please
call the
All visits and exchanges
must be scheduled through the
There is a fee for using our services. The fee is based on a sliding scale depending on income. The fee required will be determined during the intake interview.
How
do I contact the staff of the
Wellstone Family Safety Program?
Phone: 218-256-4052
Fax: 218-327-4052
Staff offices: Advocates for Family Peace
1611 NW 4th Street
Grand Rapids, MN 55744
Visit location: Itasca Resource Center
E-mail: lconnelly@stopdomesticabuse.org