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)
Point Rencontre provides a protected space for children to maintain or re-establish links with their estranged parent. It is a working space that enables the child to be in contact with both parents, beyond the conflicts linked to their separation.
Our role
- Promote the establishment, resumption or maintenance of contact between the child and the parent with whom he or she does not live
- To support the child-parent relationship
- To promote parenting skills
- Support the relationship with a view to unimpeded access.
Exercising visiting rights
Meetings can take place according to models adapted to each situation:
- 2-hour meetings on the premises
- visits lasting 3 or 6 hours with permission to leave the premises
- visits with permission to leave the premises from Saturday to Sunday morning
- a place to pick up the child at the end of the week and bring him/her back on Sunday (drop-offs).
Prior interviews with each parent
Access to Point Rencontre is based on a court order. Each of the parents is received for an interview prior to setting up visits.
Address:
Fondation Jeunesse & Familles (FJF)
Ch. des Champs-Courbes 25a
Case postale 95
1024 Ecublens
Le Point Rencontre offre un lieu d’accueil et un accompagnement favorisant le maintien ou la reprise de la relation entre un enfant et le parent avec lequel il ne vit plus quotidiennement. Il aide aussi à maintenir les liens entre les parents naturels et leurs enfants placés en famille d’accueil.
Adresse:
Point Rencontre
Rue de Gravelone 3
1950 Sion
Located at the Maison de l’Enfance in Neuchâtel, the Point Rencontre organises parent-child access rights in cases of conflictual separation, to enable children to maintain or re-establish links with the parent from whom they are separated.
Address:
Rue du Tertre 2
2000 Neuchâtel
Located at Avenue Léopold-Robert 56b in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Point Rencontre organises parent-child visiting rights in cases of conflictual separation, to enable children to maintain or re-establish links with the parent from whom they are separated.
Address:
Avenue Léopold-Robert 56b
2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds.
The Point Rencontre – Jura Bernois provides children with a third, protected and secure space in which to exercise their visiting rights or exchange information between parents. It enables them to create, enrich and maintain a bond with the parent who does not share their daily life. The Point Rencontre is a transitional space where relationships can change and evolve, with the idea that meetings without intermediaries will one day be possible.
Address:
Grand Rue 16
2710 Tavannes
The Point Rencontre is a service that allows supervised visits. It offers two different types of support, supervised visits in a specially equipped area and accompanied visits outside institutional walls.
The Point Rencontre is aimed at any family situation where a separation has made it difficult, or even interrupted, a child’s relationship with his or her parent(s) or with other members of his or her family of origin.
This service is free of charge.
Address:
Creux-de-la-Terre 1
CH-2800 DELEMONT
The ‘Point Rencontre’ is a working space for parents with an access order when no other solution is possible, with the aim of enabling the child to meet both parents, beyond the difficulties linked to their separation.
The aim is to enable the child to structure and develop with the parents who are his or her own and in the conditions of security that are his or her due.
Address:
Rue des Charmilles 26
1203 Genève
The Point Rencontre Fribourg organises accompanied visits and is open to anyone referred by court order or under a mandate from an official social service. Anyone may contact us on their own initiative for advice on accompanied visiting rights.
Before visiting the Point Rencontre Fribourg for the first time, you are asked to contact the management. They will be given a presentation on how the visit works and the arrangements.
Address:
Rue des Femmes Savantes 2
1762 Givisiez
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
Address:
Chemin de la Cigale 21
1010 Lausanne