Visitation plans are developed to specify and describe planned interactions that occur between clients and visitors. For Child Welfare outcome plans where children are in out-of-home placements, visitation plans are important to maintain relationships between the child in out-of-home placement and family members (parents or relatives) or other participants. Visitation plans, which can be court ordered, or mutually agreed upon by the agency and the family, typically specify when, how and where a visitation occurs as well as the frequency and the duration of the planned interactions. When creating a visitation plan, the caseworker must identify the participants involved.
Configurations exist which allow an administrator to specify the lower and upper age limit of the clients to visit which filters the list of clients to visit on the visitation plan. For example, for a Child Welfare outcome plans, the upper age limit for clients to visit might be 21 whereas for Adult Protection outcome plans, the lower age limit might be 21.