Mineola, NY - September 8, 2016 - EAC Network is pleased to announce the Nassau County Bar Association’s (NCBA) We Care Fund has generously awarded $5,000 grant for the agency’s Nassau Supervised Visitation (NSV) program.
NSV offers supervised visits between non-custodial parents and children when the court feels that unsupervised access may be harmful to the child. Parents and their children generally visit once per week for an hour at the agency’s child-friendly facility in Hempstead and are overseen by specially trained case managers. Over 500 families used NSV for their supervised visitations in 2015.
“We are so grateful for the NCBA We Care Fund for its compassion and generous support of our Nassau Supervised Visitation program,” says Lance W. Elder, President & CEO at EAC Network. “This funding is vital to running this essential service to keep parents and children in each other’s lives.”
In addition to supervised visits, parents also receive direct help and referrals to improve parenting skills, learn appropriate play behavior, and develop constructive relationships with their children.
“We are so grateful for the funding provided by the We Care Fund,” says Dorothy Worrell, Program Director at EAC Network’s Nassau Supervised Visitation. “Positive parent-child relationships are integral to the development and well-being of growing children. Our goal is to facilitate non-custodial parents’ access to their children in a safe and caring environment where parent-child bonds can flourish despite the hardships that might be occurring at home.”
To learn more about EAC Network’s Nassau Supervised Visitation program, visit here.
About EAC Network
EAC Network (www.eac-network.org) is a not-for-profit social service agency that empowers, assists, and cares for over 71,000 individuals across Long Island and NYC. EAC Network’s mission is to respond to human needs with programs and services that protect children, promote healthy families and communities, help seniors, and empower individuals to take control of their lives. The organization has grown tremendously since its inception in 1969 and now offers over 70 diverse programs that address many of society’s core problems. People’s lives are being destroyed by addiction, families continue to struggle to overcome poverty, abuse, and neglect, and seniors face isolation and abandonment. EAC Network aims to build a better community one individual at a time.