Domestic Violence Services

Children With Voices

What We Do

• Has your child been affected by domestic violence?
• Do you have questions about which services are available for you and your child?
• Are you a professional looking for consultation or trainings about domestic violence issues?

Assistance is available if you answered “yes” to any of the questions above. Our Children With Voices program is for children who have witnessed domestic violence and their non-offending parents. Our goal is to improve the safety of these children and their families by providing support, stress management skills, parenting education, and access to compassionate therapeutic resources. We offer a wide range of services customized to each family’s needs.

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Who We Are

• We collaborate with local domestic violence agencies and other service providers.
• We work with families to assess their strengths, create stability, and build their sense of community.
• We are family-centered social workers, family therapists, and domestic violence advocates striving to be culturally responsive.

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Services Provided

• Safety Planning and Risk Assessment
• Evaluation and Assessment
• Trauma-Informed Skill-Building Groups
• Advocacy Services
• Support, Education, and Parenting Groups
• Individual and Family Therapy

Meeting Place

Safe & Supervised Family Visitation

Meeting Place provides a secure setting for children and parents to interact when there are concerns about the emotional or physical safety of a child or their parents during familial contact. Reasons for supervised visits include domestic violence, substance use, impaired parental judgment due to mental health challenges, child abuse and neglect, or the prolonged absence of a parent.

Prior to scheduling any visits, all parents and children are required to complete a thorough intake and orientation process and safety assessment. During visitation hours Meeting Place utilizes trained, unarmed security guards, staggered arrival and departure times for parents, and clearly defined rules and guidelines for all parties present.

All Meeting Place staff have extensive experience working with high-conflict families, child access issues, and domestic violence. Our clinical staff completes intakes, and highly trained clinicians and paraprofessionals supervise visits.

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Reasons to Enlist Us

• When separated, divorced, or unmarried parents have a court order for supervised visitation
• When both parents of a family — without a court order — desire these services and agree to follow program procedures
• When a family has a child placed in foster care and is referred by the Department of Children and Families for supervised visits
• When a family has a post-adoption or guardianship visitation agreement

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Meeting Place Serves:

• Families concerned about their safety because of a history of domestic violence
• Children whose contact with a parent has been interrupted
• Families where parental conflict is extreme and ongoing
• Children for whom unsupervised contact with a parent may be unsafe due to a parent’s substance use, mental health, poor judgment, or a history of physical or sexual abuse

High Risk Assessment & Response

Your Safety is our Priority

Our High-Risk Assessment and Response team focuses on reducing and preventing domestic violence homicides and holding offenders accountable. Strong relationships among the police, the courts, and community providers within Cambridge, Arlington, and Belmont help accomplish our goals. Using danger assessment tools, we can identify high-risk cases and implement crisis intervention plans for victims and their families.

 Please visit our Group Therapy page for a list of currently available Domestic Violence groups.