Prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and drugs as well as getting along peacefully with others. Five classroom lessons cover goal setting, decision making, communicating, bonding and managing emotions. Students also participate in a community service project. The program runs from September to June.

Provides Mandated Reporter Training seminars for Day Care Centers to help staff identify and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides Mandated Reporter Training seminars for Day Care Centers to help staff identify and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides a neutral site for court ordered safe exchanges and supervised child visitations for families who are separated or divorced. The program is designed specifically families with Civil Protection Orders in place, as well as families with a history of violent or threatening behavior.

RAFT offers non-custodial parents an opportunity to rebuild relationships with their children in a comfortable, safe, and homelike environment. Services may be used to work out difficult situations such as custody issues, protection orders, divorces, abuse investigations, etc.

Provides supervised exhanges and family visitation services to children and their parents and families who have been referred through the court system.

Prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and drugs as well as getting along peacefully with others. Five classroom lessons cover goal setting, decision making, communicating, bonding and managing emotions. Students also participate in a community service project. The program runs from September to June.

Offers a space where children can visit with non-custodial parents. Also offers a place where parents may drop children off for visitation and have no contact with the other parent when there is a threat of domestic violence or a protection order.

Prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and drugs as well as getting along peacefully with others. Five classroom lessons cover goal setting, decision making, communicating, bonding and managing emotions. Students also participate in a community service project. The program runs from September to June.

Prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and drugs as well as getting along peacefully with others. Five classroom lessons cover goal setting, decision making, communicating, bonding and managing emotions. Students also participate in a community service project. The program runs from September to June.

Provides supervision of contact between non-residential parents or caregivers and their children.

Provides a child-friendly supervised visitation location that is monitored by a member of our supervised visitation staff who may intervene when necessary to ensure parent/child interactions.

Seeks to support, strengthen, and empower individuals and families through a broad continuum of community-based services that meet the needs and values of the community.

Seeks to support, strengthen, and empower individuals and families through a broad continuum of community-based services that meet the needs and values of the community.

Provides a safe, friendly and clean environment for visitations to occur. We offer numerous age appropriate activities as well as basic parenting skills. We complete a neutral observation of each visit, consisting of a detailed document know as the monitoring report form. We correspond, at a minimum, on a weekly basis, providing this document as well as any concerns about the progress of the visits.

Seeks to support, strengthen, and empower individuals and families through a broad continuum of community-based services that meet the needs and values of the community.

The Child Custody and E-Commerce Safe Exchange Zone is offered in the annex parking of Marion City Hall, located on the East side of the former Recreation Center. This area is under video surveillance of the Marion City Hall camera systems which can be viewed by MPD personnel and our Communications Center to increase the safety of those exchanging children or engaging in e-commerce sales. This Safe Exchange Zone has two dedicated parking spots with posted signage as seen in the pictures. These parking spots should only be used by persons exchanging children or those engaging in e-commerce. If the designated spots are taken, you should use a nearby parking spot within this "zone". Family Court Personnel will not be on hand and MPD Officers will not be present unless such oversight is needed due to a protection order or similar circumstances. Persons who intend to use this Safe Exchange Zone do not need to ask permission or notify law enforcement unless you KNOW that you will need an officer due to the presence of a protection order or similar circumstances. If your circumstances do involve a protection order, you should call MPD Dispatch 740-387-2525 on your way to MPD to ensure we have an officer available to assist in the exchange.

The Visitation Center provides a safe and friendly setting in which court-ordered supervised visits and exchanges may take place for families in need due to such issues as: child abuse/ neglect investigation, child custody issues, a protection/restraining order, or other safety, mental health or legal issues.

Provides supervised visitations for children to visit with 1 or both parents in a homelike, family setting where interactions are monitored. Also provides supervised exchanges for parents to exchange children in a safe, neutral setting in order to prevent children from being caught in the middle of family/parental disputes. The facility includes 4 visitation rooms with living room furniture, toys, games, books and crafts.

Seeks to support, strengthen, and empower individuals and families through a broad continuum of community-based services that meet the needs and values of the community.

Seeks to support, strengthen, and empower individuals and families through a broad continuum of community-based services that meet the needs and values of the community.

Offers a location where buyers, sellers, and traders using websites such as Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace can meet to complete their transaction in person. Provides a safe place for child custody exchanges can take place as well. There is a camera aimed at the zone that records video 24 hours a day.

Prevention program designed to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors related to alcohol, tobacco and drugs as well as getting along peacefully with others. Five classroom lessons cover goal setting, decision making, communicating, bonding and managing emotions. Students also participate in a community service project. The program runs from September to June.

Provides neutral exchange servcies where both parents can meet with a monitor at a pre-arranged neutral location to exchange their children for their scheduled visitation time. Staggered pick-up and drop-off times can be arranged so that the parents do not have to come in contact with one another. The actual exchange is monitored by our supervised visitation staff who attempt to ease the process for the children.

Provides supervised visitations for children in foster care who have court ordered visits established through Medina County Job and Family Services. Assists in family reunification by teaching parents mentoring skills and helps families build appropriate parent-child relationships.