The aim of the Association is to help children and their parents who are experiencing personal or family difficulties:
- a boarding school with a special school – the Centre médico-pédagogique (CMP)
- an outpatient support unit for families with small children – Le Coteau
- a visiting support structure – Espace contact
- a day centre for young people – ASEJ Les Croisettes
- a boarding school with a special school – le Home-Chez-Nous (HCN)
We accompany children of detainees to visiting rooms, welcome families before and after visits, and offer support to relatives of people in detention.
Addresses of our offices:
Rue du Tunnel 1, 1005 Lausanne
Rue de la Madeleine 10, 1204 Genève
Route de la Gare 27, 1786 Bas-Vully
Point Rencontre provides a protected space for children to maintain or re-establish links with their estranged parent. It is a working space that enables the child to be in contact with both parents, beyond the conflicts linked to their separation.
Our role
- Promote the establishment, resumption or maintenance of contact between the child and the parent with whom he or she does not live
- To support the child-parent relationship
- To promote parenting skills
- Support the relationship with a view to unimpeded access.
Exercising visiting rights
Meetings can take place according to models adapted to each situation:
- 2-hour meetings on the premises
- visits lasting 3 or 6 hours with permission to leave the premises
- visits with permission to leave the premises from Saturday to Sunday morning
- a place to pick up the child at the end of the week and bring him/her back on Sunday (drop-offs).
Prior interviews with each parent
Access to Point Rencontre is based on a court order. Each of the parents is received for an interview prior to setting up visits.
Address:
Fondation Jeunesse & Familles (FJF)
Ch. des Champs-Courbes 25a
Case postale 95
1024 Ecublens
Le Point Rencontre offre un lieu d’accueil et un accompagnement favorisant le maintien ou la reprise de la relation entre un enfant et le parent avec lequel il ne vit plus quotidiennement. Il aide aussi à maintenir les liens entre les parents naturels et leurs enfants placés en famille d’accueil.
Adresse:
Point Rencontre
Rue de Gravelone 3
1950 Sion
Located at the Maison de l’Enfance in Neuchâtel, the Point Rencontre organises parent-child access rights in cases of conflictual separation, to enable children to maintain or re-establish links with the parent from whom they are separated.
Address:
Rue du Tertre 2
2000 Neuchâtel
Located at Avenue Léopold-Robert 56b in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Point Rencontre organises parent-child visiting rights in cases of conflictual separation, to enable children to maintain or re-establish links with the parent from whom they are separated.
Address:
Avenue Léopold-Robert 56b
2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds.
The Point Rencontre is a service that allows supervised visits. It offers two different types of support, supervised visits in a specially equipped area and accompanied visits outside institutional walls.
The Point Rencontre is aimed at any family situation where a separation has made it difficult, or even interrupted, a child’s relationship with his or her parent(s) or with other members of his or her family of origin.
This service is free of charge.
Address:
Creux-de-la-Terre 1
CH-2800 DELEMONT
The ‘Point Rencontre’ is a working space for parents with an access order when no other solution is possible, with the aim of enabling the child to meet both parents, beyond the difficulties linked to their separation.
The aim is to enable the child to structure and develop with the parents who are his or her own and in the conditions of security that are his or her due.
Address:
Rue des Charmilles 26
1203 Genève
The Point Rencontre Fribourg organises accompanied visits and is open to anyone referred by court order or under a mandate from an official social service. Anyone may contact us on their own initiative for advice on accompanied visiting rights.
Before visiting the Point Rencontre Fribourg for the first time, you are asked to contact the management. They will be given a presentation on how the visit works and the arrangements.
Address:
Rue des Femmes Savantes 2
1762 Givisiez
Address:
Chemin de la Cigale 21
1010 Lausanne
The Unité de prestations espace rencontre (UPER) provides three different services:
- A service for children who have left the boarding school and are placed with a foster family or with one of their biological parents.
- A service for children in boarding care who see their parent(s) away from home.
- Provision for children who have left boarding school to return home. The aim of the first two services is to maintain the parent-child bond in a special place. The home service is provided by two UPER educators. This service is provided when the child returns home from boarding school.
Resources
- Visits are accompanied by a social worker for one or two hours, once a week.
- Parents and children are brought together in a special area where games are available.
- Visits outside the home can also be arranged.
- The carer collects the child from where he or she lives and returns him or her at the end of the visit.
Mandates
- The Direction générale de l’enfance et de la jeunesse (DGEJ) and the Service des Curatelles et Tutelles Professionnelles (SCTP) will mandate us to accompany the child and his family.
- Maintain the link.
- Work on parenting skills.
- Observe the relationship.
- Observing the child’s behaviour.
- Observe the parent in their parental role.
Address:
Av. de Beaumont 46bis
1012 Lausanne