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Organization: Exchange Club CASTLE Program: Valued Visits Funder: Children ' s Services Advisory Committee RFP: # 5054 3. Briefly describe how your program intends to address the stated need/problem, Include reference to any studies or evidence that indicate proposed strategies are effective with target population. The stated need or problem is unsupervised visits or contact between a child and a parent who puts that child at risk. Valued Visits addresses this need by offering a safe, enriched setting in which to supervise this contact. Valued Visits also fosters boundary and limit setting, holds parents accountable for their behavior, and enrolls non-residential parent in a parenting education class . In some case , therapeutic intervention is offered when ordered by the court. Evidence that that supervised visitation works comes from in-house statistics : there have been no instances of abuse , or witnessing of domestic violence by a child since the programs inception , during visits by families , and external statistics : • Only 17 % of families using supervised visitation centers missed their appointments , compared with 71 % of families who use Department of Children and Families caseworkers to supervise visits . • Families using visitation centers were likely to have 10 or more visits , about 3 times more than if caseworkers supervised visits . • 50% of children who had regular family visits were in foster care for less than one year, while only 10 % of children who had infrequent visits were in foster care for less than one year. • Children who use visitation centers have their court cases resolved sooner than children who use caseworkers to supervise family visits . 4. List staffing needed for your program, including required experience and estimated hours per week in program for each staff member and/or volunteers (This section should conform with the information in the Position Listing on the Budget Narrative Worksheet) . One program manager (50 % of time) Required credentials/experience : BA/5 years Three visit monitors ( 100% of time) Required credentials/experience : High School/ 1 yr. One secretary (25 % of time) Required credentials/experience : High School/ 1 yr. 5. How will the target population be made aware of the program? All families using Valued Visits are court ordered to do so . Families are made aware of the program through the judge presiding at their court appearance, or in dependency cases , through their DCF caseworker. Program enrollment begins when a family provides a copy of the court order to the CASTLE . 6. How will the program be accessible to target population (i.e. location, transportation, hours of operation) ? Valued Visits is open in the evenings and on weekends , ensuring accessibility to working families . The program is located on a main thoroughfare in Vero Beach , at a well -known site (The Boys and Girls Club) . Enrolled families provide their own transportation . 7