Our Story

Clear Voice Interview Services (CVIS) was founded to address a growing gap in Alberta’s family justice system, ensuring that children’s voices are heard promptly, respectfully, and without bias. In many parenting and legal matters, circumstances fall outside the mandates of Child and Family Services or police, yet families and legal professionals still need a safe and reliable way for children to share their experiences and perspectives.

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We also recognized a need for timely and cost effective services outside of the Practice Note 7 and Practice Note 8 process. While those assessments play an important role in appropriate cases, not every family matter requires that level of assessment, time, or expense. There is a need for proportionate options that can provide meaningful information about a child’s lived experience, without unnecessarily escalating the process or cost to families.

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Drawing on decades of experience in child forensic interviewing and multidisciplinary child protection work, Kim and Matt, together with colleagues across the family justice and child serving sectors, recognized the need for a professional, neutral, and compassionate approach.

 

CVIS was created to help bridge that gap by providing timely, ethical, and child centred Voice of Child interviews that give families and legal decision makers clear and reliable insight into each child’s unique perspective.

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Our work is designed to be procedurally fair and proportionate to the needs of the family and the issues before the court. Guided by integrity, neutrality, and excellence, CVIS combines extensive interviewing expertise with accessibility and efficiency, delivering high quality, unbiased interviews and reports within appropriate timelines and at a cost that remains accessible to families.

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Every interaction is grounded in respect, safety, and care, ensuring that each child’s voice is heard, understood, and meaningfully considered in the pursuit of fair, informed, and child focused outcomes.