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The Contact Supervision Process 

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together Children Contact Specialist team for supervision provide the contact arrangements between children and parents who have been separated, and are considered that supervision of contact is required, or where a child or young person is assessed to be in need of care and protection in a range of orders to ensure the safety, welfare and wellbeing is not at risk.

 

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together acknowledge the importance of a child’s identity and connection to both parents, especially after when parents decide to separate.

 

During the separation process, some parents are challenged with the management of contact between children and parents, resulting with contact being stopped altogether, causing the child to become conflicted, confused and traumatised.

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together offer opportunity for parents to participate in PTA Co-parenting clinic program, to allow even the most challenging matters to have opportunity for parents to be educated and their reformed as separated parents.
 

 

The Service

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together specialise in parental contact loss, parental alienation, victims of domestic and family violence, sexualised behaviours & high conflict parents. This also includes those with Domestic Intervention Orders and when allegations made against them. 

 

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together Children Contact Specialists for a duration no less than three hours or as otherwise by agreement or court orders. Parental Supervised Contact can also be supported through a changeover process only when both parties are required to not be in contact or when observational report is required of both parents.

Parenting Together Apart for Parents NOT Together Children Contact Specialists provide a thorough observational report of both parents which is then provided for the purpose of a family court process or as agreed on parental agreements.
 

 

The Process of Contact Supervision

Our first focus is your child. We do this by observing their behaviours and observing the parent child relationship between their both parents, that being the supervised parent and the handover process of the residential parent.

 

The goal for the Children Contact Specialist is to see if the child fits the definition of an alienated or resistant child and to assess why the child is rejecting a parent and refusing contact or where there are allegations of abuse, how does the child relate to the supervised parent.
 

 

The process of reunification

When children and parents have experienced forced separation from one another because of abuse, parental alienation, high conflict, and allegations, these are all likely to cause post-traumatic stress which could nearly regress the relationship between the child and parent if not handled with care.

During the supervision process, each component is treated with care, sensitivity and mindfulness as each child is given the opportunity to quietly ‘lead’ the process. With the expectation where possible alienation is a factor, children of parental alienation do act a certain way, the reconnection process is approached differently with the parent they claim to hate, despite even when the child  hold their position, we allow each child the opportunity to engage with both parents unconditionally,  without the influence of the other, and in a timeline they dictate.

 

During the process for child where it is alleged or have been exposed to abuse, the child will also lead the way, therefore, parents must be mindful that a child resisting the other parent, could be out of fear, confusion and conflict, therefore, time and patience is imperative for the long-term goal to be achieved.

 

Our specialty in awareness of children concerns through observation, educating parents of the expectations and that time is on the child's side to allow the process to be reflected truthfully.
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