Inspired Insights
Practical Tips & Resources to Collectively Learn and Grow the Field of Supervised Visitation & Safe Exchange Programming
LOVE
A transformative approach to supervised visitation and safe exchange services
The concept of love as a transformative force is powerful, especially when applied to services like supervised visitation and safe exchange. Approaching these services with a foundation of love and compassion creates an environment where healing and change can occur. To create new opportunities, the field of supervised visitation and safe exchange needs to be open to new thinking and engage with families from a place of love and understanding. When programs support a strengths-based optimistic approach centered on the belief that change is possible, they can foster a healthy, safe, and humanistic environment that supports healing and attempts to reduce risk.
Love is not just a feeling but an action. It's about treating each individual involved with dignity, respect, and empathy. It's about understanding the challenges they face and providing support without judgment. When love is infused into these services, it can be transformative. Furthermore, the idea of love as a transformative force extends beyond the immediate participants in supervised visitation and safe exchange services. It also affects the broader community. When love guides our actions, it strengthens our connections with one another and reinforces the bonds that hold us together as a community.
At Inspire Action for Social Change, we believe the work of supervised visitation and safe exchange is profound and life-changing, and we believe supervised visitation must be seen as an essential component of each community’s response to addressing both safety and healing for families who have experienced intimate partner abuse. It has to be a labor of love with deep dedication to each survivor - who has been asking us to do more, to help more, and to care more about their lived experience. Adult and child survivors hope for safety, healing, and change, not only for themselves but often for the people who have caused them harm.
Embracing love as a transformative approach to supervised visitation and safe exchange services benefits the individuals directly involved and contributes to the community's overall well-being. It reminds us of our shared humanity and the power of compassion to create positive change in the lives of others. By approaching the work of supervised visitation and safe exchange with love and care, we can transform the field.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Inspired Insight Conversation
Join us for an Inspired Insight Conversation around the topic of love in supervised visitation and safe exchange programs.
Monday, April 8, 2024
8-9 AM Hawaii / 10-11 AM Alaska / 11 AM-12 PM Pacific /
12-1 PM Mountain / 1-2 PM Central / 2-3 PM Eastern
Inspired Boost Sessions
At Inspire Action for Social Change, we are committed to lifelong learning. We know the field of supervised visitation and violence prevention and intervention is ever-evolving and requires practitioners to stay educated and well-informed.
Inspire Action will offer short intensive “Inspired Boost” sessions over the year to support your ongoing learning.
Inspired Boost sessions provide an opportunity to take a deep dive into a variety of topics specific to the field of supervised visitation. Inspired Boosts will give you new ideas to ponder, offer tools and tips to enhance your work with families, and support your ongoing learning.
Upcoming Sessions:
Coming Soon! Please check back often, as these offerings will be updated regularly.
Recently Completed Inspired Boost Sessions:
The Use of Technology to Stalk
Inspire Action and SPARC (the Stalking Prevention, Awareness, & Resource Center) hosted this Inspired Boost on using technology in stalking. In this session, we explored how technology can be used—and misused—in various ways to locate, surveil, and monitor individuals without their knowledge. The majority of those who experience stalking face both in-person and technology-facilitated stalking. In this session, SPARC addressed common technologies used in stalking. This session was held on April 12, 2023
Due to the confidential nature of the content of this session, Inspire requires a formal request to access the recording.
If you’d like a refresher on the basics of stalking, please watch a recording of “Context is Key” from SPARC’s webinar archive through the link below:https://www.stalkingawareness.org/training-archive/
Leadership & Sustainability Strategies for Supervised Visitation Programs Series
Inspire Action’s five-part series “Leadership & Sustainability Strategies for Supervised Visitation Programs. This five-session series was designed to provide supervised visitation programs with new ideas and inspiration in core values, trauma-informed, equity-centered leadership, and financial sustainability. In this series, we shared skills participants could use to build robust and lasting visitation programs that provide safety and healing for parents and children experiencing intimate partner abuse.
Part 1 - February 15: Core Values and Leadership
Part 2 - February 22: The Art of Communication
Part 3 - March 2: Trauma-Informed, Equity-Centered Leadership
Part 4 - March 16: Transitioning into Leadership
Part 5 - March 30: Non-Profit Based Supervised Visitation Sustainability I
Part 6 - April 6: Non-Profit Based Supervised Visitation Sustainability II
Inspired with Love
Inspired with Love sessions are part of an ongoing effort of Inspire to build systems within organizations that are grounded in love, care, and deep compassion.
Inspired with Love sessions are designed to help build a framework that guides all aspects of our work, starting with our relationships with each other and ourselves. These sessions will encourage each of us to explore what it means to start and end love.