If you’re experiencing family separation issues, it can be a challenge. You may be dealing with emotions such as hurt, anger, anxiety and fear. Sometimes they can occur all at the same time. Family separation issues can also impact on a child’s development. Combined, this makes it difficult to manage contact arrangements for children. You need a caring Children’s Contact Service in Melbourne to help you. This is where Better Place Australia comes in.
Better Place Australia offers an affordable and accessible Children’s Contact Service in Narre Warren in the southeast of Melbourne, almost at the foot of the Dandenongs. It’s easy to access if you’re coming from another suburb, being right near the intersection of the Princes Highway and the M1.
The convenient location means parents and family members can enjoy quality time before or afterwards in the beautiful Bayview Park or Amber Crescent Reserve in Narre Warren.
What is a Children’s Contact Service?
The Australian Government Institute of Family Studies says: “Children’s Contact Services are independent services that enable children of separated parents to have safe contact with the parent they do not live with, in circumstances where parents are unable to manage their own contact arrangements.”
This would also include carers and other family members.
How Better Place Australia can help
Better Place Australia’s Children’s Contact Service is a safe, child-focused environment. Being fully supported and supervised, it makes visits and changeovers easier. Whether you are a non-resident parent, family member or carer, you’ll find this is a safe, neutral space to establish and develop a relationship with the child.
The service helps you:
- re-establish and maintain contact with other family members
- develop encouraging, positive interactions with others
- strengthen relationships that are important to your children.
There is an added advantage to using Better Place Australia. It is also a central referral point for you to access the suite of empowering family and relationship counselling and support services.
As a parent, you can find more important information about the Children’s Contact Service by clicking here.
As a referrer, find important information for referring your client to access the service by clicking here.
Other benefits using Better Place Australia
Better Place Australia Children’s Contact Service in Melbourne makes it easy for you to arrange supervised visits and facilitated changeovers.
Benefits include:
- affordability and accessibility
- low to no wait time with flexible times available, including on Saturdays
- other child counselling and parenting programs are accessible as part of the service
- accessing counselling, psychological and mediation services without switching providers
- access to numerous helpful parenting programs
- easy on and off-street parking.
Better Place Australia is one of the trusted supervised contact centres in Melbourne. Practitioners have found that by considering the unique needs, concerns and preferences of a child, and making the child your first priority, you can achieve outcomes that are more sustainable, better respected and more satisfying.
Better Place Australia provides two locations for the service:
Contact us office hours for more help. Call 1800 639 523, via email or live online chat.
