We are dedicated to providing a safe, neutral environment and child access services to facilitate parents and children spending quality time together. Our goal is to facilitate the visitation/child access process and help families get the most out of this special time together.
FairPlay offers several types of child access services:
Parent Coordination, Phone Monitoring
Parenting classes, Parent Coaching
Offsite community or in-home supervised visitation, parenting time support.
Accompanied parenting time: Appropriate for cases where there are no protective concerns but where a neutral, supportive person is necessary for the child’s comfort level and to help maintain safe constant parenting time; parent coaching is included.
This service is often used for reunification cases.
Forensic Supervised Visitation: Appropriate for cases involving ongoing high-conflict custody matters (usually in the Probate and Family Court). Parent coaching is included.
Supportive Visitation/Parent Coaching for ongoing visitation cases. We will communicate and coordinate other professional support services to fulfill a professionally defined treatment plan that involves supervised parenting time. Our role is not to generate reports but rather to work with and provide information to other providers such as GALs, family therapists, parenting coordinators, or social workers.
Supervised Visitation is often required because of the noncustodial parent’s history of violence, an existing restraining order, parenting issues, or other issues which could affect the safety and well-being of the child.
The purpose of supervised visitation is to ensure the safety and well-being of families during contact between the noncustodial parent and the child. It also facilitates an ongoing relationship between the noncustodial parent and the child in a safe environment, utilizing specific rules and guidelines, as well as a trained visitation specialist.
FairPlay’s supervised visitation format keeps custodial and non-custodial parents separated unless otherwise agreed, and the children are never left alone or unobserved. In this way, we assure that visits are as friendly and safe as possible and that children feel comfortable and supported throughout.
We assist the parents in enhancing their interaction with their children by modeling healthy parenting skills and providing supportive parent coaching during visits. We help to enhance parenting skills by promoting hands-on parenting techniques during the course of a visit. We provide supportive redirection to assist parents in creating the best visit possible for their children.
FairPlay communicates with courts and other support services. It is important to note that a supervised visitation specialists is not a guardian ad litem, and we therefore cannot provide written recommendations or evaluations, but we can share observations of the visitation process. A supervisor’s role is to facilitate the best visit possible. Where necessary, FairPlay can provide visit logs and will communicate with support services or the court.
Supervisors are not allowed to transport children in private cars as they are not insured to do so.
The custodial parent is responsible for making arrangements to transport the child to and from the visit venue. For most of our clients, the noncustodial parent has driving privileges providing that the supervisor rides along in the car with the parent and child. The child is never left alone in the car with the visiting parent. The child is always accompanied by the supervisor when the visiting parent is transporting. The visiting parent is responsible for providing proper safety seats for the child they are transporting.
If the visiting parent has driving privileges there is usually a set drop off/pick up site where the child is transferred in the company of the supervisors.
Family and friends may be allowed at the visit by agreement of the parents or pursuant to a parenting plan or court order.
FairPlay offers visitations in the community or in homes. Example of visitation venues include libraries, restaurants, zoos, museums, malls, movies, parks, and community activities.
FairPlay maintains free passes for our clients to the Boston Science Museum, zoos, and Garden in the Woods.
We service all of Eastern Massachusetts and parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. Our primary service area includes Boston, Greater Boston , MetroWest, North and South Shore, and Worcester County.
Before services can be begin, all parties must participate in an intake interview to enable us to identify the family’s needs and to ensure their appropriateness of FairPlay’s services. The intake process includes taking a case history from both parents meeting the children and speaking with collaterals. This process normally takes approximately 10 days.
Once all necessary intakes have been completed, FairPlay will contact the parties and arrange logistics outlined in the visitation agreement which is based on availability of the supervisor, applicable court orders, and the schedules of the family members involved.
Visitation fees are outlined in our fee agreement documents .
Our staff is professionally trained in supervised visitation, domestic violence, child development, family systems, and high-conflict co-parenting, with extensive hands-on experience with children and teens. All staff have been trained in parenting education.
