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New York State Chapter Annual Conference

The New York State Chapter of the Supervised Visitation Network held its 7th annual conference on Oct. 18, 2007. The conference, hosted by St. Catherine's Center for Children in Albany, was attended by 50 SV service providers as well as domestic violence advocates and court personnel.

Lundy Bancroft, author of various books including; The Batterer as Parent, When Dad Hurts Mom & Why Does He Do That, was the guest speaker. His focus was on the batterer as parents as well as the empowerment of battered women in custody and visitation litegation.

The small group allowed for a lively discussion on issues pertaining to supervised visitation cases involving domestic violence and the challenges service providers face in working with batterers. Attached are documents from Lundy Bancroft that were included in the conference materials. Feel free to use these as training tools within your programs. Honorable Judge W. Dennis Duggan and Law Guardian, John Santacrose, Esq. were honored for their work with families and children in Albany family court. THANKS SO MUCH TO BONNIE STOLIKER & HER STAFF AT ST. CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN for hosting our conference.

New York State Chapter – SVN

The New York State Chapter was started in 1995 at a meeting at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City. Our Chapter was formed to give supervised visitation providers an opportunity to meet together in order to learn from each other and share ideas, with the goal of improving the services we offer to children and families. Presently, our chapter is made up of 49 members in 28 agencies.

Over the last 12 years, we have worked to:

Provide professional conferences and forums for networking and sharing of information among New York State supervised child access providers;
Provide information and training to supervised child access providers and other professionals involved in providing support to children and parents who are not living together;
Facilitate and expand opportunities for children to have safe and conflict free access to both parents;
Promote public awareness about the importance and need for supervised visitation services, and the role of child access programs in the continuum of services for divorced and separated families with children;
Advocate for adequate funding of supervised visitation services; and
Provide other services and information as may be appropriate.

Our chapter meetings are held bi-monthly. Each Fall we host an annual, all-day conference on topics relevant to service providers in the field of child access.

Membership is available to those institutions and individuals who have a SVN membership in good standing and who are providing services or are interested in the issues surrounding supervised visitation services.

...please contact us at: NYS.SVN@gmail.com