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03/18/11
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Case Law on Supervised Visitation or Exchange Issues in Cases Inv…

This document provides an overview of supervised visitation and domestic violence cases published in the last three years.

03/18/10
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Safe Passage: Supervised Safe Exchange for Battered Women and The…

This publication sums up key issues in supervised safe exchange, presents strategies to address those issues, and suggests policy and procedure changes that will help visitation programs deliver this critical service as skillfully and safely…

03/18/09
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Advocacy Beyond Leaving: Helping Battered Women in Contact with C…

This guide offers practical suggestions to assist advocates working day-to-day with victims and uses the familiar and concrete framework of woman-defined advocacy to explain advocates’ important role in safety planning when victims are in contact…

03/18/09
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Domestic Violence Programs and Children’s Records: Issues of Co…

The importance of confidentiality in the lives of battered women and their children cannot be understated. Preserving confidentiality for these women and children is central to ensuring their safety and allowing them to regain and…

09/18/08
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New Perspectives on Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange: Orie…

This document provides an overview of a shift in practice. The shif includes the change from agency-centered intake to person-centered orientation as a framework for welcoming mothers, fathers, and children to the experience of supervised…

06/18/08
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Fathering After Violence: Working with Abusive Fathers in Supervi…

This guide is intended to assist supervised visitation centers that want to enhance the safety and well-being of women and children by working more deliberately with abusive fathers who use the centers to visit their…

06/18/08
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On Safety’s Side: Protecting Those Vulnerable to Violence

This document is an invitation to visitation centers serving families with a history of domestic violence to engage far more actively and broadly in the work of protecting victims of violence. Doing so involves protecting…

06/18/08
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Responding to Stalking

Stalking is a serious and dangerous crime; yet, it is also often misunderstood, minimized, or overlooked entirely. Evidence of stalking—harassing phone calls or text messages, showing up at a victims’ school or work uninvited—is sometimes…

03/18/08
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Beyond Observation: Considerations for Advancing Domestic Violenc…

This publication presents considerations for expanded practice in the supervised visitation and describes interventions that go beyond observation in the supervised visitation setting. The information for this publication comes from a number of sources, including…

04/09/07
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Guiding Principles of the Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and …

The Guiding Principles are designed to guide the development and administration of centers with an eye toward addressing the needs of child(ren) and adult victims of domestic violence in visitation and exchange settings. The Guiding…

03/22/07
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Abusive Men’s Use of Children to Control Their Partners and Ex-…

This study represents the first step in examining both the extent to which, and the various ways by which, abusive men use children to control and terrorize their partners.

03/18/07
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Supervised Visitation Programs: Information for Mothers who have …

This guide is for mothers who have experienced abuse and whose children are in supervised visitation programs. It provides basic information about how supervised visitation programs work and how mothers can prepare themselves and their…