The Point Rencontre is a place where accompanied access rights can be exercised and offers a protected environment where children and parents who are entitled to accompanied visiting rights can meet under the supervision and protection of support staff. The main aim of the Point Rencontre is to improve the relationship between parents and children.

The Point Rencontre also offers accompanied handovers of children during visiting rights. Under supervision and in a protected environment, children can pass from one parent to the other.

Address:

Paul-Robert-Weg 16
Chemin Paul-Robert 16
2502 Biel/Bienne

The Unité de prestations espace rencontre (UPER) provides three different services:

1. A service for children who have left the boarding school and are placed with a foster family or with one of their biological parents.
2. A service for children in boarding care who see their parent(s) away from home.
3. Provision for children who have left boarding school to return home. The aim of the first two services is to maintain the parent-child bond in a special place. The home service is provided by two UPER educators. This service is provided when the child returns home from boarding school.

Resources

• Visits are accompanied by a social worker for one or two hours, once a week.
• Parents and children are brought together in a special area where games are available.
• Visits outside the home can also be arranged.
• The carer collects the child from where he or she lives and returns him or her at the end of the visit.

Mandates

• The Direction générale de l’enfance et de la jeunesse (DGEJ) and the Service des Curatelles et Tutelles Professionnelles (SCTP) will mandate us to accompany the child and his family.
• Maintain the link.
• Work on parenting skills.
• Observe the relationship.
• Observing the child’s behaviour.
• Observe the parent in their parental role.

Address:

Av. de Beaumont 46bis

1012 Lausanne

Mediation – our services:

• family mediation
• parental coordination
• intercultural mediation
• meeting space
• amicable hearing of children and accompaniment
• socio-educational support
• psychosocial support
• help with parenting
• skills development workshop

Address Vaud:

Rue de la Scierie 2, 1148 Villars-Bozon (L’Isle)

Address Geneva:

IFREP Centre de Formation, Rue de Lyon 12, 1201 Geneva

The supervised visits benefit from a team of trained mediators and various premises in different parts of eastern Vaud, enabling it to provide mediated services for meetings between a minor and one of his or her parents. These measures can pursue several objectives:

• re-establishing contact after a long period of separation
• Maintaining personal relationships in situations of high child protection
• Assessing parental abilities
• Supporting the development of parenting skills
• Supporting the development of a favourable parent-child relationship

Address:

Boulevard St-Martin 2
1800 Vevey

For children, the relationship with their parents is of great importance. After a separation or divorce, difficulties can arise in exercising the agreed visiting rights. In such cases, the Accompanied Visitation Centre (BBT) offers support. The BBT is aimed at children aged from around six months to a maximum of 16 years and their parents.

Locations:

Artergut, 8032 Zürich

Entlisberg, 8038 Zürich

Offers
– The BBT is a neutral and safe place where children can meet with the parent they are not living with. The BBT
is attended by several children and their parents at the same time.
– For capacity reasons, visits from other relatives are only possible in exceptional cases by prior arrangement.
– The BBTs take place in the supplementary childcare centre of the Inneres Lind kindergarten. There are many toys and
indoor and outdoor play facilities are available.
– The BBT is supervised by a specialist and their team. Where necessary, they offer encouragement and assistance in organising time together.
time together.
– The BBT cooks for children and parents.
– The BBT can also be used as a neutral drop-off point (without staying in the centre).

Address:

Kindergarten Inneres Lind

St. Georgenstrasse 59a

8400 Winterthur

The offers for ‘Accompanied visiting days’ and ‘Accompanied handovers’ take place at various locations close to the centre. The ‘accompanied visits’ always take place in premises that are suitable for children.

Address:

Frongartenstrasse 16

9000 St. Gallen

Accompanied visits enable parents and parents who are unable to exercise their visiting rights independently to participate in the development of their children and their well-being. During accompanied visits, contacts and emotional bonds between parents and children are established and developed. The welfare of the child is the main focus.

Address:

Kantonsstrasse 15

8863 Buttikon