About Us

My Name is Patricia A. Nash of P.A. Nash & Associates Monitored Visitation Service. I am the owner of the agency, which includes all the administrative tasks and I also supervise parents with their children. All my life I have surrounded myself with children. I started babysitting at a young age and found that I was always protecting the neighborhood children. At an early age I found out about child abuse and how damaging it was on a child’s life. I always wanted to be a mentor to a child that needed some love and attention. I volunteered my time to a home for abused children and became a special friend to a 15-year old girl. She was pretty rough around the edges and tested me allot to see if I would stick around and not abandon or hurt her. She was an answer to my prayers and filled a space in my heart that will forever be taken. I have always felt that I didn’t have to have a bloodline to a child to love, nurture and protect them. Usually a child in the system has to emancipate at age 18 years old and go off into the world with no guidance to make a life for themselves with or without their biological parents. I decided that I wanted to make a life long commitment to her and not just until she turned 18. Usually people who volunteer their time can ask for another special friend and help them until the age of 18. That’s not what I wanted for my life as well as hers. So I asked my special friend if I could be her mom forever and that once she said “yes” she was stuck with me for life. She has grown into a wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, strong woman that I am very proud of.

While volunteering at the abused children’s home I was nominated for the Orange County “Volunteer of the Year” award in the locally televised award ceremony and received the “Mentor of the Year” award.

Along with the classes for supervised visitation I have also taken the class Mediation and Conflict Resolution, as well as a class on the many aspects of Child Abuse.

There are many situations in which a parent would need supervised visitation. Some of them are domestic violence, substance abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, parental alienation syndrome, flight risk, when a parent tries to commit suicide. Some parents have none of these issues; they just need some help with parenting and guidance. I feel it is extremely important that while the parent is receiving help with their problems that they have the opportunity to visit their child in a safe and supervised environment.

At P.A. Nash & Associates Monitored Visitation Service our monitors are trained to be nuetral observers of the relationship between parent and child.

I feel passionately about the fact that I can watch over the child and see the family’s faces light up when they meet for visits.

It has been so gratifying to finally implement my dream and know my life long desire to work with children and their families has been answered.

Exhibitor for the California Governors and First Lady Conference on Women and Families held in Long Beach each year.

Member of the- Supervised Visitation Network (SVN) is a non-profit membership organization consisting of individuals and agencies, mostly in the United States and Canada, who have a common interest in assuring that children have the opportunity for safe, conflict-free access to parents with whom they do not reside.

We supervise families in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside
and San Diego Counties.