Who We Are
Julia Brice
Julia Brice is a child and parenting specialist and the founder of FairPlay Parenting Education. She leads a team of professionally trained supervisors providing supervised parenting time, supervised exchanges, and parent education and coaching in Massachusetts.
Her work with children and families began in 1986. That experience continues to shape FairPlay’s commitment to child safety, meaningful parent-child interaction, and clear professional boundaries.
A Career Devoted to Children and Families
Julia Brice has worked through community, government, and private nonprofit agencies as a child protective worker, domestic-violence advocate, preschool teacher, and parenting instructor and coach. Her work has supported people navigating crisis, life transitions, and everyday family challenges.
In 1994, Julia Brice cofounded Children’s Supervised Visitations, a nonprofit center in Marlborough, Massachusetts. As executive director, she oversaw supervised visits and a graduate student internship program that provided training and mentoring for future visitation specialists.
Julia Brice was also a cofounder and board member of the Massachusetts Coalition of Supervised Visitation. She worked with former Chief Justice Dunphy on practice standards for visitation supervisors, advocated for state funding, contributed to requests for proposals for supervised visitation programs, and helped develop and implement a federally funded Safe Havens program.
Parent education has remained an important part of her work. Through the Assabet Valley Family Network, she developed parenting courses and provided systematic training for effective parenting. She also taught parenting classes for families involved with Framingham DCF.
Julia Brice established FairPlay Parenting Education in 2005. Her private practice brought together supervised parenting time, parent education and coaching, professional training, consultation, and mentoring.
Experience With a Personal Approach
FairPlay’s professionally trained supervisors work under Julia Brice’s direction, using the same method, rules, guidelines, policies, and safety protocols. Within that consistent framework, each family’s parenting time is approached with care for the child’s needs and room for ordinary, natural interaction.
When appropriate and within the defined service role, supervisors provide real-time parenting education, guidance, prompting, and redirection. They do not replace therapists, evaluators, Guardians ad Litem, parenting coordinators, attorneys, or the Court.