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