The Wellstone Family Safety Program (WFSP) is a safe and friendly place that provides a positive and nurturing environment to promote healthy parent/child relationships. The WFSP also reduces children’s exposure to domestic violence.
What services are offered?
The Wellstone Family
Families that use the WFSP
can be referred through the court, Human Services, attorneys, mediation, or they
can refer themselves.
WFSP Services
Sup
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 and
child(ren),
the non-custodial parent's behavior scares the child(ren) or the last time the
child(ren) saw the parent was during a violent incident.
A therapeutic visit operates similarly 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 unsupervised visitation
without the parents having any contact with each other and thereby eliminating
the possibility of children witnessing any violence between the adults.
How
do I receive services?
To set up an intake, please
call the
All visits and exchanges
must be scheduled through the Wellstone Family Safety
Program. Dates
and times set up by referral agencies might not fit into our schedule.
There is no fee for using Wellstone Family Safety Program's services.
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
Visitation locations:
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Itasca Resource Center, Grand Rapids |
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St. Cecilia's Catholic Church, Nashwauk |
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Bigfork Valley Hospital, Bigfork |
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Goodall Resource Center, Deer River |
E-mail: lconnelly@stopdomesticabuse.org