How many times have you caught almost yourself almost saying something subjective in the Supervised Visitation setting? We live in a world that is filled with subjectivity and our daily language can easily fall to this temptation. As a supervised visitation provider, staying neutral and unbiased is a critical component to maintaining professional relationships with the clients and families one serves. You will learn in this webinar how to constructively analyze your own personal biases and beliefs and leave them behind when you
provide supervised visitation.

Joleen Thompson is the Director of Services for the Family Visitation Center in Sioux Falls, SD, which provides safe supervised visitation and exchange services to the local community and state contracted families. In her role as Director of Services, Thompson directly oversees the programmatic implementation of visitation and exchange services as well as facilitating employee hiring, training, and ongoing supervision. Prior to joining the Family Visitation Center, Thompson spent 20+ years working in the Early Childhood/Head Start field. Most recently she was the Early Childhood Director for Youth Enrichment Services in Sioux Falls. While in that role she supervised and managed two Early Childhood/Head Start centers and opened a third center and assisted with the startup of the Boys and Girls Club of the Sioux Empire