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Adopt and present a resolution honoring the past and present volunteers of the Vacaville Visitation Care Center upon the center's tenth anniversary of providing a safe place for Solano County families to have their court-ordered supervised visitation and custody exchanges facilitated (Supervisor Vasquez)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
Supervisor Vasquez requests the Board adopt and present a resolution honoring the past and present volunteers of the Vacaville Visitation Care Center upon the center's tenth anniversary of providing a safe place for Solano County families to have their court-ordered supervised visitation and custody exchanges facilitated.
SUMMARY:
As a matter of policy, the State of California has made it a priority to protect the best interest of children whose parents find themselves with a custody or visitation matter in one of the Superior Court of California's Family Law judges. In these cases, some of which stem from issues of domestic violence, the protection and safety of the family and child will be considered by a judge who may order that a child only have contact with a parent when a neutral third person is present during the visitation. To facilitate this, supervised visitation providers allow parents to visit their children when issues of child abuse, child abduction, domestic violence or substance abuse are in question. Prior to 2009, court-ordered supervised visitation was provided by the Solano County District Attorney's Office at the Rainbow Center in Vacaville.
When the Rainbow Center closed in 2009, Pastor Willie Graham, who is also the founder of Heroes of Solano, a family support men's support group aimed at lowering the incidence of domestic and family violence, created the Vacaville Visitation Care Center, housed at the Christian Body Life Fellowship church in Vacaville. Seeing the need for supervised visita...
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