NYC Supervised Visitation takes another hit with Safe Horizon ending visit services

Safe Horizon, one of three providers in New York City that oversees supervised visits, recently informed the Court that it can no longer perform its services due to funding loss after its contract with the city expired last fall. Safe Horizon, which is the largest victim services organization in the country, will try to see through Supervised Visitation appointments that have already been scheduled but has stopped accepting new referrals, reports the Gothamist in the July 15, 2025 article “NYC nonprofit budget cuts leave some parents in custody cases unable to visit children.”

The Children’s Law Center told the Gothamist that in its estimate only half the families needing supervised visitation can be served by providers in New York City.

With Safe Horizon overseeing 1,200 visits last year, according to the Gothamist, we will see wait times and pressure on the remaining providers increase dramatically. Families who rely on these programs in order to keep connections between non-custodial parents and children during unstable times will be further harmed. 

On the state of supervised visitation in New York, the Gothamist quoted the Children’s Law Center’s Executive Director:

“It was already a crisis,” said Liberty Aldrich, executive director of the Children’s Law Center and a former family court judge in the Bronx. “Now it’s beyond imaginable. I literally don’t know what’s going to happen.”