Facilitating Healing and Change: Building Victim Centered Approaches for Survivors Who are Visiting Parents
Written by: Erin Fairchild, Beth McNamara, and Jennifer Rose
Understanding why intimate partner violence survivors are losing custody and ordered to use supervised visitation is a complex challenge that does not have an easy solution. Inspire Action for Social Change, in partnership with the Office on Violence Against Women and Justice For Families Grantees, facilitated a process to explore strategies to best support a process for healing and change for adult survivors who are visiting their children in supervised visitation programs. This publication offers key strategies for supervised visitation programs to support survivor visiting parents and recommendations for enhancing the larger community response for survivors who lose custody of their children.