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

Its mission is to support families in the aftermath of upheaval (parental separation, bereavement, serious illness, mental illness), giving them the opportunity to remobilize and acquire the resources and skills they need to regain their strength and ability to live life to the full.

As’trame Vaud / 021 648 56 56 / info@astrame.ch / Place de la Riponne 1, 1005 Lausanne

As’trame Genève / 022 340 17 37 / geneve@astrame.ch / Rue du Léopard 3, 1227 Carouge

As’trame Valais / 027 552 20 25 / valais@astrame.ch / Chemin des Collines 2B, 1950 Sion

As’trame Arc (Neuchâtel- Bern – Jura) / 032 552 70 60 / arc@astrame.ch / Rue du Château 21, 2000 Neuchâtel

As’trame Fribourg / 026 322 10 14 / astramefribourg@officefamilial.ch / Avenue de la Gare 14, 1700 Fribourg

The UMV has three missions:

• To provide victims of violence with forensic advice
• To offer advice and training to professionals
• To conduct research on the subject of interpersonal violence.

The consultation offers victims :

• a warm welcome and an attentive ear, enabling them to
• to talk about the violent events they have
• they have experienced.
• a clinical examination focusing on the violence experienced
• so that forensic documentation can be drawn up
• (report of assault and battery, photographs of injuries).
• The report can help the victim to assert her rights.
• referral to a network of partner institutions
• and partner associations.

This consultation is confidential and free of charge.

How do I make an appointment?

By telephone Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm,

weekends and public holidays from 8am to 12pm.

Address:
UMV-Yverdon-les-Bains
Hôpital d’Yverdon-les-Bains
Accueil du bâtiment principal
Rue d’Entremonts 11
1400 Yverdon-les-Bains

The UMV has three missions:

• To provide victims of violence with forensic advice
• To offer advice and training to professionals
• To conduct research on the subject of interpersonal violence.

The consultation offers victims :

• a warm welcome and an attentive ear, enabling them to
• to talk about the violent events they have
• they have experienced.
• a clinical examination focusing on the violence experienced
• so that forensic documentation can be drawn up
• (report of assault and battery, photographs of injuries).
• The report can help the victim to assert her rights.
• referral to a network of partner institutions
• and partner associations.

This consultation is confidential and free of charge.

How do I make an appointment?

By telephone Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm,

weekends and public holidays from 8am to 12pm.

Address:
UMV-Rennaz
Centre hospitalier de Rennaz
HRC Vaud-Valais
Accueil de l’Espace Santé Rennaz
Route des Tilles 6A
1847 Rennaz

The UMV has three missions:

• To provide victims of violence with forensic advice
• To offer advice and training to professionals
• To conduct research on the subject of interpersonal violence.

The consultation offers victims :

• a warm welcome and an attentive ear, enabling them to
• to talk about the violent events they have
• they have experienced.
• a clinical examination focusing on the violence experienced
• so that forensic documentation can be drawn up
• (report of assault and battery, photographs of injuries).
• The report can help the victim to assert her rights.
• referral to a network of partner institutions
• and partner associations.

This consultation is confidential and free of charge.

How do I make an appointment?

By telephone Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm,

weekends and public holidays from 8am to 12pm.

Address:
UMV-Nyon
Hôpital de Nyon
Accueil du bâtiment principal
Chemin Monastier 10
1260 Nyon

The UMV has three missions:

• To provide victims of violence with forensic advice
• To offer advice and training to professionals
• To conduct research on the subject of interpersonal violence.

The consultation offers victims :

• a warm welcome and an attentive ear, enabling them to talk about the violent events they have experienced.
• a clinical examination focusing on the violence experienced, enabling forensic documentation to be drawn up (report of assault and battery, photographs of injuries). The report can help the victim to assert her rights.
• referral to a network of partner institutions and associations.

This consultation is confidential and free of charge.

How do I make an appointment?

By telephone Monday to Friday, 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 4pm,

weekends and public holidays from 8am to 12pm.

Address:
UMV-Lausanne
CHUV
Accueil des Urgences
Rue du Bugnon 44
1011 Lausanne