Richmond business owner focuses on supervised visitation services
RICHMOND – Kim Ghisalberti said she hopes her new business will help make supervised custody visits less painful for parents and their children, and maybe reduce travel time.
Ghisalberti plans to open On Neutral Ground, a supervised visitation service on North College Street in Richmond, in early September. She provided a tour and interview streamed live by this newspaper Aug. 10. On Neutral Ground is the only service of its kind “offered around here,” Ghisalberti said.
“The closest might be in Clay County in Liberty,” she said. “A friend of mine has an office there and she does it. … Sometimes, going to the city is a hardship for people – and I know that because I struggled with it myself many years ago as a single mom. … I just wanted something that … would be conducive to a lot of different people.”
For those who find On Neutral Ground an alternative to driving and scheduling, the facility includes a visiting room with items to occupy children, including books, coloring utensils…