PlanetSafe, a supervised visitation and safe child exchange center, opened this month. The program is the result of a two-year planning project funded through a Safe Havens grant from the Office on Violence Against Women.
PlanetSafe will act as an intermediary, in which parents can exchange custody of their children without personal contact. The center also provides parents with supervised and observed visitation of their children. The program is available on a sliding fee scale starting at $5 for safe exchanges and $10 for supervised visitation. Initially, only families who have been referred to the service from SafePlace or families with a court order will be accepted. PlanetSafe will expand to accept referrals from other service providers at a later date.
Check out the video to learn more about the program from Travis County Family Violence Center Director Gretta Gardner.
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