Experience counts and your family member safety is paramount. As the Director of Family Visitation Services, I run and operate a in home care agency providing in - home care for high risk seniors and depend adult since 1986.
Experience counts. The safety and welfare of your dependent adult or elder family member is our focus and concern.
Approximately 1 in 10 Americans aged 60 plus have experienced some form of elder abuse, one study estimated that only 1 in 14 cases of elder abuse are reported to authorities.Two-thirds of perpetrators are adult children or spouses. Both the elder person and dependent adults can fall between the cracks and be vulnerable.
To those ends, we provide the highest quality monitoring services for dependent adults and elders in conservatorship by ensuring that trained, qualified monitors with experience working with this population are assigned.
Trust matters. We offer neutral, professional monitors who will observe carefully and report accurately in writing for every visit. The monitors are capable of maintaining boundaries for the visiting family members.
The mission of Family Visitation Services is to maintain and foster and nurture safe connection between the Senior and depended adult.
We also understand that folks, being LGBT, Deaf Developmental and mentally ill have their unique set of challenges that we need to understand and support with upmost mindfulness and sensitive.
Our commitment is to provide monitors who are experienced in dealing with the specific needs of Elderly and Dependent Adult persons in family conflict. We guarantee that the Court parameters for visitation are observed.
Family Visitation Services has over 30 years supporting families, especially when the dynamics are difficult in cases of Fiduciary and physical abuse and neglect. We provide monitored visitation for the Elder or Adult Dependent person as required by the probates and adult protective service.
The right monitor ideally can be a beacon of light in an otherwise dismal and hopeless situation to help the senior or dependent adult to still maintain a connection with a love one is a safe environment.
The monitor’s role is to promote the safety and welfare of the Elder or Dependent Adult, while observing and noting what happens during the visitation per the court order while maintaining an invaluable connection for the person.
Time is of essence and helping the person maintain the connection in a safe way.
Our commitment is to provide monitors who are experienced in dealing with Elder and Dependent Adult persons in family conflict. We guarantee that the Court parameters for visitation are observed.
When families are long-distance and need a professional to evaluate and supervised off needed, facilitate housing and maintain a care team meet the indivual needs.
We are aware that each family is unique, possess different dynamic, value and culture.
We honor and embrace these difference and truly understand that one solution does to fit all.
The way our services is delivered is tailored to meet your client or family member.
Family Visitation Services provides professional monitoring services with a wide range of clients, including dependent adults and seniors who live at home or in an assisted living or memory care facility.
Services can an any outside venue that is safe and appropriate for that indivual. Restaurant, theater, Holiday event. Etc.
Family Visitation Services has over 30 years supporting families, especially when the dynamics are difficult. We provide court-ordered visitation for elders and dependent adults who have conservators.
The right monitor ideally can be a beacon of light in an otherwise dismal and hopeless situation. The monitor’s role is to promote the safety and welfare of the elder or dependent adult, while observing and noting what happens during the visitation.
Our commitment is to provide monitors who are experienced in dealing with elder and dependent adults in family conflict. We guarantee that the Court parameters for visitation are observed.
Ilene Fletcher, director of Family Visitation Service has been providing supervised visitation since 1986. She combines this with her 30 years of experience providing in home care for senior, and dependent adult as a vendor of 7 Regional centers in the southern California health districts in-home respite care, and long term in home care with unusual and high risk communities.
With adults that were high risk vulnerable populations. During these years she was the placement coordinator for more than 5,000 families working with the most prominent private case. Ilene’s was known for providing emergency services in the middle of night when 911 is not enough.
Her long-standing success in this field is her understanding that a team approach better serves these vulnerable individuals, who are unable to advocate for themselves. She witnessed the abuse and neglect at skilled nursing facilities, board and cares and in the home.
From 1976 through 2005 working with friends, caregivers, and family mentors though the Regional Center to ensure in-home care respite and long-term 24-hour care with adults who had a combination of developmental delay and mental illness, as well as those who were medically fragile. Her goal was to keep the individual safe and to create the best-quality of life by establishing person-centered programs around their needs.
Ellen has a rich history and a keen sense of evaluating the needs and coordinating service delivery for developmentally disabled and dependent adults and seniors.
She trained and worked alongside Nancy Wexler, the Private Geriatric Care Management pioneer in California who wrote the seminal book, “Mama Can’t Remember Anymore, “ a guide for families dealing with the complexities of aging family members, especially those with dementia.
Ellen went on to own a Geriatric Case Management Practice. Ellen believes the most comprehensive way to create an Individual Geriatric Care Plan is to include family members and other involved agencies, so everyone has a place at the table.
Over the years, she has worked collaboratively with Family Visitation Services owner Ilene Fletcher to improve the life quality of seniors and dependent adults at varied points in their lives and living in an array of environments.
Anyone advocating for a dependent adult or senior needing to keep them financially and physically safe...
Often family forced to comply with court ordered supervised visitation can feel angry, mistreated and unnecessarily punished.
The dependent adult or senior may have already endured, physical, emotional or p psychological abuse or physical neglect and certify of loss on many levels because of Isolation and verbal and finance abuse.
Services available 7 days a week on an hourly or 24 hour basis.
Regular office hours are Monday Through Friday 9:00am 5:00pm
Services are scheduled 7 days a week at any time 365 days a years including all Holidays.
Councilor on call for after ours emergencies.
