The aim of the Association is to help children and their parents who are experiencing personal or family difficulties:
- a boarding school with a special school – the Centre médico-pédagogique (CMP)
- an outpatient support unit for families with small children – Le Coteau
- a visiting support structure – Espace contact
- a day centre for young people – ASEJ Les Croisettes
- a boarding school with a special school – le Home-Chez-Nous (HCN)
Address:
Chemin de la Cigale 21
1010 Lausanne
The Unité de prestations espace rencontre (UPER) provides three different services:
- A service for children who have left the boarding school and are placed with a foster family or with one of their biological parents.
- A service for children in boarding care who see their parent(s) away from home.
- 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