Access to Visitation

Program Administration
The Judicial Council is charged with administering the federal Child Access and Visitation Grant Program. The grant program also receives guidance from the Judicial Council’s Executive and Planning Committee and the Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee, the state Legislature, and the federal Administration for Children and Families. The Administrative Office of the Courts Center for Families, Children & the Courts (CFCC) has primary responsibility for administering and managing the grant program.

Eligibility
Under California’s Access to Visitation Grant Program, grant funding is awarded to the family law division of the superior courts through a statewide request-for-proposals grant application process. Applicants are strongly encouraged to involve multiple courts and counties in their proposed programs and to designate one court as the lead or administering court. While the superior courts may contract with local community-based nonprofit agencies to provide the direct services on behalf of the court, contract agreements are made only with the designated superior court. Grant funds may be used to expand or augment existing programs but funds may not be used to supplant existing funding for those programs.

Program Monitoring
States are required to monitor, evaluate, and report on programs funded through the grant—on an annual basis—in accordance with regulations prescribed the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (45 C.F.R. 303.109). California’s Access to Visitation Grant Program monitoring of grantee programs draws on multiple sources and methods, with feedback from the courts, clients, community stakeholders, and service providers at the local, regional, and state levels. Methods also include site visits, questionnaires, focus group and roundtable meetings, and data collection and document analysis. Many of the grantees use client feedback surveys and questionnaires to assess their own service delivery. Additionally, grant recipients are required to submit monthly statistical data reports and quarterly progress summary reports.

California's Access to Visitation grant application for fiscal years 2011–2012 and 2012–2013.

Subject to federal funding, the next request for proposals/grant application information for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 will be out in August 2012.

Contract - Exhibit E Forms

FORM	TITLE
Attachment 1	Acceptance and Sign-off Form (PDF), updated Fiscal Year 2010–2011
Attachment 2	Time Sheet (Excel), updated Fiscal Year 2010–2011
Attachment 3	Payroll Summary (Excel), updated Fiscal Year 2010–2011
Attachment 4	Invoice (Excel), updated Fiscal Year 2010–2011
Attachment 5	Matching Form (Excel), revised 10/2007
Attachment 6	Bi-annual Summary Progress  Reporting Form, updated Fiscal Year 2011–2012
Attachment 7	Initial Entry Form, revised 12/2009
Attachment 8	Session Summary Information: Parent Education and Group Counseling, revised 11/2003
Attachment 9	Log Form: Parent Education and Group Counseling, revised 11/2003
Attachment 10	Log Form: Supervised Visitation and Exchange Services (Pickup-Drop-off), updated 12/2009
Attachment 11	Parent Outcome Survey, revised 10/2004
Attachment 12	Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension, and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-free Workplace Requirements (PDF), revised 10/2007
Attachment 13	Assurances - Non-Construction Programs
Attachment 14	Compliance Statement Regarding Uniform Standards of Practice for Providers of Supervised Visitation, updated Fiscal Year 2010-2011
Attachment 15	Request for Contract Budget Revision (Excel) and Sample Letter for Budget Revision Request, revised 10/2007
Attachment 16	Revised Budget Form and Instructions, revised 9/23/2011
Attachment 17	Program Income Questionnaire, updated Fiscal Year 2011-2012
Attachment 18	Expenditures Line Item Summary, new Fiscal Year 2011-2012

Legislative Reports

Report to the Legislature on the programs funded and whether and to what extent those programs are achieving the goal of promoting and encouraging healthy parent and child relationships between non-custodial or joint custodial parents and their children while ensuring the health, safety, and welfare of children, and other goals described in this chapter.

Legislative Report 1
California's Access to Visitation Grant Program for Enhancing Responsibility and Opportunity for Nonresidential Parents-The First Five Years: Report to the Legislature 
(March 2002).

Legislative Report 2
A Report to the California Legislature: California's Access to Visitation Grant Program for Enhancing Responsibility and Opportunity for Nonresidential Parents Fiscal Year 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 (February 28, 2003).

Legislative Report 3
California's Access to Visitation Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 (March 2004).

Legislative Report 4
California's Access to Visitation Grant Program: Fiscal Years 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 (March 2005).

Legislative Report 5
California's Access to Visitation Grant Program: Fiscal Years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 (March 2006).

Legislative Report 6
California's Access to Visitation Program: Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (July 2007).

Legislative Report 7
Ten Years of Access to Visitation Grant Program Services (Fiscal Years 1997-2007) (March 2008).

Legislative Report 8
California's Access to Visitation Grant Program (Fiscal Year 2009-2010) (March 2010).

Research & Publication

Supervised Visitation - An Annotated Bibliography

A Guide for the Non-Professional Provider of Supervised Visitation

Supervised Visitation and You (English)

Supervised Visitation and You (Spanish)

California's Access to Visitation Grant Program - Directory of Supervised Visitation Agencies