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Family Visitation Center presents supervised visitation needs, COVID-19 impacts
Summary
Directors from the Family Visitation Center presented to the county commission on the number of families served, ongoing demand for supervised visitation services and how COVID-19 has affected operations and service delivery.
Joleen Thompson, Director of Services, and Carol Woltjer, Director of Development for the Family Visitation Center, briefed the Minnehaha County Commission on the center’s supervised visitation program and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operations.
They described the number of families the program serves, reiterated ongoing need for supervised visitation services in the community, and outlined changes and challenges brought on by COVID-19, including impacts to scheduling and staffing. The presentation was informational; no formal funding action was recorded during the meeting.
