Sonoma County Legal Services Foundation

In my opinion, «Sonoma legal is not a safe choice for supervised visitation.» From my personal experience and inquiries within the legal community, Sonoma legal is «poorly run and has a lot of bad experiences reported about them.» CPI is your only other option in Sonoma. Trust me when I say, CPI is worth every penny and then some. If you find yourself in the horrifying position of needing «supervised visitation» do not take your choice of providers lightly. It will turn out to be the most important decision you could ever make. Your future and the future of your children’s lives, depends upon the findings of your visitation supervisor. Sonoma Legal foundation’s supervisors do not necessarily have any training to be qualified to make such determinations.
CPI’s visitation supervisors are «therapeutic providers of visitation» and have undergone much more stringent educational requirements to allow them to make such life-​changing determinations. You can look up in the California Rules of court, 5.20 the requirements for a visitation supervisor versus the requirements of a «therapeutic provider.» A non– therapeutic provider basically needs a drivers license and minimal criminal record, a therapeutic provider must take and keep up on courses related to the field.
My personal experience with Sonoma legal services Foundation, was best summarized by a party who witnessed my interactions with them, and declared the interaction to be «the single biggest miscarriage of justice they have witnessed in their time on the planet.»
I repeat, DO NOT TAKE THIS DECISION LIGHTLY. «BEG, BORROW or STEAL» THE FUNDS TO HIRE A QUALIFIED AND PROFESSIONAL COMPANY TO OVERSEE YOUR SUPERVISED VISITATION. In my experience. Your attorney will not protect you on this point. They will send you to a supervisor and will not explain to you whether or not they have information regarding the quality of said providers of visitation.
Please contact me if you have any knowledge of interactions, good or bad, with visitation services providers or individuals in Sonoma county. People need to be made aware of how the system works and the experiences of people who have experienced the system, (good or bad).

Toni Novak and her gang of thug «unbiased, neutral supervisors» need to have there state grant money stopped and be investigated and I am not kidding either. I went there in crisis over my ex trying gain full custody of our 3 kids and my problems got worse way worse among some of the rules and laws that they broke were as follows the day before I had my first home visit the supervisor «Mattie Walker» told me I had to write down my new cell # and my new home address because my ex «needed it» and if I said NO Mattie would not let me have a home visit– Mattie Walker does not give any receipts for money paid for visits and when I asked she got sooooooo pissed at me– then when I got a «new supervisor» named Ms Linda Muzzin it got weird she wrote me up for failing to «adhere to my clear financial agreement» ummmmmm ok, my visits cost 37.50 per visit and two times I gave her 40.00 and said keep the change so I got terminated partly for overpaying? WTF then I found out Linda Muzzin has an arrest record for commercial burglary and cruelty to animals and she is a supervisor that provides «safe visits». it got even worse when Toni Novak made a statement that I «had a long history of drug abuse thats why I have poor impulse control» my family is Mormon I don’t drink or smoke in fact I don’t even drink coffee never have.
There is something very wrong at sonoma county legal services foundation, there are so many more things I could say and I am talking about truths and facts not hurt feelings.
SCLSF is biased and unprofessional the role they have chosen to carve out is meant to hurt one parent and there case while aiding the other side.
Sincerely written by,
Perry L.