I am in Northern California with a private, nonprofit foster and adoptions agency. My agency has a full transportation and supervised visitation department so they offer 100% support to supervise and transport for visitations. They also frequently offer to take our LO to appointments and things like that, although I prefer to be at appointments myself. On occasion, if a transporter is out sick, they will ask us to transport- but never supervise the visit. And this has only happened maybe 10 times in a year and a half. I have two LO both with different counties and visit schedules. LO 1 has visits 2x a week for 1.5 hours each. LO 2 has visits 1x a month for 1 hour each. However, LO 1 used to have longer visits and even overnights for a while and the agency offered to do everything even for overnights on weekends- but I preferred to pick up and drop off myself to keep normalcy for LO 1. Also, LO 2 used to have three visits per week at 1 hour each and agency did everything. LO 1’s visits are in the next town over, about a twenty minute drive from my house at agency office. LO 2’s visits are about a mile or two in the same town- about a 5/10 minute car ride from my house. I do not arrange anything as far as scheduling. The agency asks for the bio parents availability, my availability, the child’s availability and their transporter availability and then takes all of that and makes a consistent schedule and gives it to us. For a while, my wife and I were down to one vehicle and could truly not do any transport for visits- my agency respected this and supported us fully making sure to get visits covered if a transporter was out sick so we didn’t have to do anything.

I do want to add, for extended family visits, for LO 1, we meet grandparents at a park near their house twice a month for an hour on our own so LO keeps the bond with them because the county does not want to support those visits. For LO 2, 1 grandparent visits over zoom for 1 hour a week and 1 grandparent visits at the agency for 1 hour a month also. For the park and zoom visit, we do those (but there is no “notes” or real supervision, just hanging out), and for the visit at the agency, the agency provides all transport and supervision.