Ontario Chapter
About the Chapter
Chapter Goals
The Purpose of the Ontario Chapter:
1. Provide forums for networking and sharing of information between supervised child access providers and other professionals involved in providing support to children and parent who are not living together.
2. Develop and disseminate standards for practice of child access services.
3. Provide public education regarding the importance of children having safe conflict-free contact with both parents and other family members and the role of child access programs in the continuum of services for divorced and separated families and for children in out-of-home placement.
3. Maintain a directory of supervised child access providers that is available to SVN members, other professionals, families, and the general public.
4. Educate public and private decision-makers regarding the importance of funding for child access service and provide assistance to local courts and/or service providers in accessing funds to provide affordable services to children and their families.
5. Provide any other services and information as may be appropriate.
What's Going On
The Ontario chapter currently formed a sub-committee of the Ontario chapter of the Supervised Visitation Network. They formed a welcome wagon committee to recognize those members that have been long term members. They were recognized by receiving a goody bag much like we receive at conference. This also included a Ontario Chapter pin, a plague, a booklet on ice breakers and several other goodies. A "Why join" letter was also included and letters were mailed out to those E.D.'s that needed more information on the Ontario Chapter.
http://svnworldwide.org/attachments/ontarioNews.pdf
Next meeting
The Ontario Chapter executive is planning their Annual General Meeting for October 18, 2010. They will be having a panel discussion on Observation Notes with Her Honourable Justice Wilma Scott, Niagara North and Jim Stengel, Family Lawyer, Niagara South. they will also be hosting a lucky loony auction.
Some more news
We will be hsting a Welcome Wagon teleconference in September to discuss how to entice new coordinators/organizations to SVN
